In reply to purplemonkeyelephant:
> I don't know why they are so expensive though, they must mass produce the stuff and I'm not even buying 0.2 square metres of it.
I think ski skins are relatively speaking rather specialist. Most XC skiers will have never heard of them, it's really just the skimo market and very specialist touring. As I said you can buy XC skis, boots binding and poles in all big Finnish supermarkets, the cheap sets for less than €100, but there might have been three or four shops in the country selling ski skins. Back when I ski toured in Scotland in 90s I reckon there were 2 or 3 places in the UK that sold them.
Of course skimo is becoming way more popular in the Alps and N America, but gear prices have been coming down a bit in relation to this I think.