Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03527
To: JVernonM@aol.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 11:04:41 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Evolution Comparison
> In a message dated 5/22/99 4:10:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sbolt@xs4all.nl
> writes:
>
>> At $300,- surely it can't be targeting the educational market?
>> It seems to be intended as a `collector's item'.
>>
> Agreed! Signed and all. Come on Dave, 300 bucks for two servos, a custom PCB,
> and the components to make a microcore. It's no wonder I've never seen one
> displayed on a personal web gallery. We all know the cost of these
> components, we buy them retail and they come far shy of your kit price. You
> seem to be operating at a 3-400 percentage markup as near as I and my
Oh, lay off him will you?
We don't have to buy them from him, and since he makes the kits, he can
charge whatever he darn well pleases! And I don't see how the price is
extremely disproportionate: He puts alot of effort into his kits to make
sure that they are extremely high quality, he makes sure that everything
works smoothly, and besides all that he probably doesn't get millions of
orders for them, so he can't exactly mass-produce them cost effectively.
I really hate being rude (even if it's seemingly forced on me), but come on,
that's like going up to an ice cream vendor and explaining to him how you
could make your own ice cream so much cheaper, and so on, when you could
just make it and be done!
If you have a really big problem with it, build your own kit. Maybe
competition would bring down the prices.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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