A photo on their site shows a screen being cut, that is, one at a time.
Lots of work to make one screen.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Beattie Out of Business?
| At 07:16 AM 06/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
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| [snip]
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| >Oh #2: There might be only one or two cents of material in one
| >of those screens, but engineering, manufacturing overhead,
| >marketing, taxes, distribution and an acceptable profit
| >(remember this isn't a high-volume product) all contribute to
| >the pricing of those screens. A healthy dose of manufacturing
| >and sales experience will teach you a thing or two about
| >pricing. Feel free to build your own, Larry.
|
| Indeed.
|
| Having been involved in product development and promotion/marketing, I
found that the minimum mark-up from development costs alone that would
ultimately allow for any sort of profit whatsoever on a product was about
400%, give or take a few percentage points. As it turns out, there are huge
human, financial and technical obstacles between a product's development and
its final delivery to the end customer, and production costs of the second
and subsequent units were almost irrelevant in the pricing decision.
|
| As the saying goes, "The *second* Cipro tablet cost Bayer AG two cents to
make. The *first* one cost five hundred million dollars."
|
| Garth
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