Lower production or ???  I don't get it.  Makes no sense at the prices I'm seeing.  Not when a black 92fs is $499ish

Well, supply and demand.

If more were available prices would be lower.

is that the case though?  Isn't the MSRP significantly higher as well?  I don't think it is strictly a case of market demand driving up a price of a limited run item.

Costs a whole lot more to apply that Inox finish than the crap paint that comes on the black 92FS slide.

I don't know about that.  There is a seller on Gunbroker with 28 Inox 92s for sale at 650 each.  Pretty cheap for a pistol.

That isn't really that much higher than lots of people are listing regular 92s for.  Of course, you can shop around and find bargains on the more-available 92FS down into the 500s simply because they are always around.

The Inox guns I always see selling for 800-1000 are the ones that aren't around anymore.  The Vertecs, Brigadiers, the straight-dustcover 92s.  92Gs, etc.

A used, slanted/angled dustcover 92 Inox doesn't gather much, if any, of a premium.  The last time I bid on a mint (but still used) straight dustcover 92 with the old grips and controls I thought I might get it for 600-650 as no one was bidding.

Then a flurry of bids came in the last 15m that kept extending it and it sold for 850.

It's stainless steel. I want Beretta to make another run of Inox non railed 92 pistols.

They must have just done a run, they are widely, widely available on GB right now.

Going rate is about 650.

Current production Inox should only be $100 more or less, and most of the small parts are standard black.

Full inox from the 2000s can be had for $6-700 if you are lucky.

If you want a full inox from the 90s they are $900+.