On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 06:17:40PM -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Byron Jeff wrote:
> > Paying $1400, or even $1000,
> > doesn't
> > make a lot of sense when the parts can be assembled for $150.
> 
> Try the real world for a change.  You've clearly never designed a commercial
> product and dealt with it all the way into production.

Hobbyist. Not trying to sell it.

> 
> Parts                                      150
> Knowing which parts to put where           100
> Assembly, test, fallout, and repair         50
> Paying back cost of setting up produciton  200
> To pay for support when you call after
>   having done something stupid             300
> To cover liability costs when you do
>   something stupid but blame us anyway     100
> Cost of capital to get into this business   50
> To pay back regulatory compliance and
>   testing costs                            100
> To make a living                           300
> ----------------------------------------------
> Total                                   $1,350

I understand each and every one of those costs. But as someone who has the
wherewithal to assemble and program it myself, everything after the first
three or possibly four items have no meaning to me.

I didn't say that charging $1400 wasn't reasonable. I said that my paying
that price wasn't. Two completely different things.

I have no problems paying for houses, cars, appliances, flooring, and the
like for exactly the reasons you outline above.

But when it's an item as a hobbyist I can actually put together myself?
That's a whole nother argument.

BAJ
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