---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:48:29 +0300 >From: "Peter L. Peres" >Subject: Re: [EE]: White LED's >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > >*>>Some absolutely amazing things can happen to prices when you're buying >*>>your components by the ton. :=) > >Nothing to do with quantity. Imho take a marketing course. >I did. The way the electronic component industry is structured, quantity is everything. The quantity discounts are artificial -- it doesn't cost them much more per unit to pack five 5 than to pack 500. However, the market for small quantities has a lower price elasticity of demand. Prototypers and hobbyists will pay quite a bit for a part before they decide not to buy it. Manufacturers, on the other hand, buy from a fairly competetive market so the prices must be within a certain range in order to sell anything. Therefore, the small volume and high volume markets are priced on a completely different basis. In order to get the competetive low prices, you have to be in the high volume market. -- Mike P. MTP Technologies KC0LLX -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics