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Re: Electronics, pricing and moral??

Subject: Re: Electronics, pricing and moral??
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Fri Sep 1, 2006 3:48 pm (PDT)
Klas, you wrote,

>If I want the same pay as the guy fixing my roof or the one mending my car=
,
>then I will need 350 USdollars for it.
>
>Can that be justified? Considering that the very same unit would cost 15
>dollars at Radio Shack, if made in China??

Economy of scale. Your product would be semi-custom, sold to a very
small market. Such items will always cost much more than mass-market
products.

-Dan Dugan




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