Scott, You are perhaps right, but my numbers were really only for illustrative purposes. I did not spend time researching the cost of producing cells nor the cost of paying employees. I don't disagree with the employment aspect, but the devil truly in this case is in the details. :)
On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Scott, > > you're dead on right with your comments although I think your scales / > numbers are even at their reduced level to high. > > Realistically, how many braille devices are sold per year? 1000, maybe? > Maybe a few hundred? > With costs being fixed such as over head and payroll you have to make X > times more per sale if you only make a few hundred sales per year. > Look at how people argue and fight as it is, there's no way you'd get > the various vendors to conspire to keep prices high. I think basic economics > does this well enough already. > > Remember too though just to counter you a little that more than one > accessibility provider pays their employees little enough that they can > remain on SSI and get the medical / medicade and financial coverage with out > having to pay out of their pockets. So the tax payers are funding the > payrolls of some of these vendors. > > Still though I think the economies of scale are what's causing the issue. > > Thanks > Scott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
