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--- Quote --- I really think the rotating panel thing is dope, but truth be told, theres no way in hell (assuming your sending just wood and the assembly for the rotating panel) that theres 3 GRAND in cost there
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There's no need to go down this road again, it's been done so many times before...   ::)

Nobody sells at cost.  Everything you buy is marked up by 50-200% of what it cost to make, some things are even more.  I pay $125 per month for a prescription medicine that is a pile of pills that barely covers the bottom of of the vial.  There's no way it costs the drug company $125 for about half an ounce of chemicals to make that.  But they have the patent, so they can charge whatever they like.  In 10 years, the patent will run out, and there will be a generic form that will cost $5.  It's supply and demand.

This isn't something you need like a prescription.  If it's too expensive, don't buy it.  You'd be much happier turning a pile of wood into a game cabinet!  It's so much fun, I know from experience...


--- Quote ---i know i know, this isnt a cheap hobby bla bla.. but were not talking about a full ready to rock cab here, were talking about a pile of wood..
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Let me know where you can find a pile of wood pre-cut and pre-drilled to do what our cab can do for $100.  It would save me a lot of money!  And it's actually a cab *almost* ready to rock.  An hour with a screwdriver will have it up and running.


--- Quote ---and dont take it personally, but this to me is one of those things that people are just trying to make huge bank off of when in reality its nothing more than 100 bucks in wood shipped to someone for crazy money..
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And a car is just a pile of sheet metal.  Welcome to the real world.  Even the cheapie kits out there don't cost $100.  No one is selling cabs to be a humanitarian.  They are all selling them for money.  ;)

I think if you compare similar products, you'll find I'm in roughly the same price range as most others out there.  But you probably wouldn't buy their cabs either.
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SOAPboy:


--- Quote from: 1UP on October 31, 2004, 03:40:40 am ---[quote author=SOAPboy link=board=1;threadid=26657;start=0#msg220636 I really think the rotating panel thing is dope, but truth be told, theres no way in hell (assuming your sending just wood and the assembly for the rotating panel) that theres 3 GRAND in cost there
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There's no need to go down this road again, it's been done so many times before...   ::)

Nobody sells at cost.  Everything you buy is marked up by 50-200% of what it cost to make, some things are even more.  I pay $125 per month for a prescription medicine that is a pile of pills that barely covers the bottom of of the vial.  There's no way it costs the drug company $125 for about half an ounce of chemicals to make that.  But they have the patent, so they can charge whatever they like.  In 10 years, the patent will run out, and there will be a generic form that will cost $5.  It's supply and demand.

This isn't something you need like a prescription.  If it's too expensive, don't buy it.  You'd be much happier turning a pile of wood into a game cabinet!  It's so much fun, I know from experience...


--- Quote ---i know i know, this isnt a cheap hobby bla bla.. but were not talking about a full ready to rock cab here, were talking about a pile of wood..
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Let me know where you can find a pile of wood pre-cut and pre-drilled to do what our cab can do for $100.  It would save me a lot of money!  And it's actually a cab *almost* ready to rock.  An hour with a screwdriver will have it up and running.


--- Quote ---and dont take it personally, but this to me is one of those things that people are just trying to make huge bank off of when in reality its nothing more than 100 bucks in wood shipped to someone for crazy money..
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And a car is just a pile of sheet metal.  Welcome to the real world.  Even the cheapie kits out there don't cost $100.  No one is selling cabs to be a humanitarian.  They are all selling them for money.  ;)

I think if you compare similar products, you'll find I'm in roughly the same price range as most others out there.  But you probably wouldn't buy their cabs either.

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maybe i just have moral issues with charging people insane ammounts of money for something..

love the idea, great youll sell it, id just feel better knowing that you arnt just jacking the price up ten fold..

and enough of the  ::) crap.. sarcasim is thick enough..



1UP:


--- Quote from: Vicious on October 31, 2004, 03:25:12 am ---Most of the cabs he sells in the beginning I would imagine would have to go towards paying off a lot of bills he has incurred (and probably still is incurring).

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Exactly.  The startup on something like this is expensive.  There are patents, lawyers, business taxes, setup costs for all the shops that build the cabinets and parts, web design, credit card billing, accounting services, insurance, an industrial space to package and ship from, and on and on.  These are the things no one sees when they say "there's no way it costs that much."  I probably won't even see a profit until the first couple batches are sold.  And I'm doing it totally by myself, on credit cards, savings, and a macaroni diet.  :)

1UP:


--- Quote ---love the idea, great youll sell it, id just feel better knowing that you arnt just jacking the price up ten fold..
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Definitely not anywhere near ten fold.  I'm obviously not going to reveal my costs, but if you saw the bill I got just for cutting out the wood, it would probably shock you.   :o

SOAPboy:


--- Quote from: 1UP on October 31, 2004, 03:50:22 am ---
--- Quote from: Vicious on October 31, 2004, 03:25:12 am ---Most of the cabs he sells in the beginning I would imagine would have to go towards paying off a lot of bills he has incurred (and probably still is incurring).

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Exactly.  The startup on something like this is expensive.  There are patents, lawyers, business taxes, setup costs for all the shops that build the cabinets and parts, web design, credit card billing, accounting services, insurance, an industrial space to package and ship from, and on and on.  These are the things no one sees when they say "there's no way it costs that much."  I probably won't even see a profit until the first couple batches are sold.  And I'm doing it totally by myself, on credit cards, savings, and a macaroni diet.  :)

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takes money to make money man.. i 100% understand the process of this kind of thing, so dont think im just a kid who thinks its to expensive because my allowance wont pay for it.. its just one of those WTF 3 GRAND FOR WOOD kinda things.. im sure if you were on the other side of the fence you would see what im talking about..

and i wish the best of luck with it, and for someone who just has tons of cash to blow its a awsome idea.. its just i dunno, one of those things that hits me odd..

its like my computer buisness and xbox modding i do.. i charge cost and a very very small markup.. say a video card costs me 200, its 220 to the customer.. that way both partys are happy..  now i realize you cant markup a cabinet that costs say 500 to make to 550 bucks and call it good, i totally realize that.. hell a grand, grand and a half is fine.. but once the markup hits that point where its outragious is where the line kinda starts.. i dont wanna say greed because well, liek you said, its out of your pocket atm, but you gotta see what im saying here too.. lets say, you invest 40k into this, and you can build AND ship one for 800 bucks.. 1600 bucks wouldnt be all that unfair considering the unique layout of the cp and such.. in fact, its kinda a one of a kinda thing, so double cost is more than reasonable..

* SOAPboy shrugs
hell maybe im just missing where the huge cost is comming in..

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