seanadams wrote: > You're actually quite wrong about the cost to produce these. From my > experience getting parts like this made, I would estimate the tooling > cost at no less than $25,000.
Tooling to make five probably only costs $1000, but then you have to use plastics that a major player like Logitech would not ship to customers. To use regular injection molding, Sean is in the right ballpark from what I've seen. As long as its a separate SKU, it probably costs $10 just to have it in the inventory, even if the box is empty. I find the tone of this whole thread to be insulting. Its a free market, if you don't want to spend that much, don't buy it. If a few folks want to, you could take a mould off one and use prototyping equipment to make a few dozen or maybe a hundred. That the incremental cost of making "one" more unit is tiny is irrelevant. You don't think that there is $40,000 worth of materials in that F-150 pickup truck that you just bought? Someone has to amortize the engineering and tooling and marketing costs. Grow up, please. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
