Hmm.
$1,000,000 / 500 listmembers = $2000.
Who wouldn't pay a little more than a 3Ti to own the tooling.
Unfortunately, I think you're off by an order of magnitude -- $10M+
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Royer" <royer007@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] An off-the-wall idea
> That would be an awesome idea, but it would be a pipe
> dream unless we had Bill Gates in disguise on the
> list. I am pretty sure Olympus Optical Co. would be
> asking for <1,000,000 dollars and would insist on
> quality control or something. HOWEVER, if Olympus ever
> dropped the OM line they might be willing to sell for
> la lot less. As long as Olympus continues to sell the
> OM system as new the price would be exorbitant. In any
> case to start this up it would definitely take <10,000
> to start production in any real volume.
>
> Mark Lloyd
>
> --- Tom Scales <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The comment earlier about the K-1000 being made in
> > China made me wonder.
> >
> > Do you think Olympus would consider selling the
> > tooling, or at least
> > licensing the designs for the things they outsource?
> >
> > Do we, as a list, have enough money to make the
> > purchase?
> >
> > Could it be viable?
> >
> > Who wants to approach them.
> >
> > Tom
>
>
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