Hmmmm,
Economics of the madhouse, although I get your point. When I used to
dabble in silversmithing it used to amaze me that the cost of raw materials for
a project did not differ that much between using silver or gold, compared to
the final project cost. The "man hours" obviously were similar...but the mark
up due to using gold was much higher...being an awkward sod I preferred using
silver..just liked the material.
However to get back to the example of the USB lead...Due to the "Y"
construction of the present lead and the lack of length I will need to resort
to adding a a USB male/female extension so the money saved on buying an
external drive with a short lead will be blown on an extension lead anyway.
:-( bugger, life is just too complicated.........
Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
--- On Mon, 4/1/10, Sue Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Sue Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] HDDs & BU [was OT - new monitor setup]
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, 4 January, 2010, 17:25
> > Once again the leads were
> inconveniently short at about 300mm. How much
> > would a decent length lead of say 1M add to the cost
> of the product??
>
> Well, John, the answer would probably surprise you. Let's
> take a cost of a
> nickle for an extra 3 feet at the manufacturer's level. You
> can double that
> for every stage of the process: 5 cents cost to the
> manufacturer, ten to the
> next party, on to the USA importer where it's got up to a
> couple of bucks,
> which doubles again to the distrubutor, and at Best Buy it
> will be five or
> ten bucks. I can assure you that the retailer's buyer is
> pushing their
> supplier to take out costs so they remain competitive.
> These changes can
> mean only pennies at t he manufacturing level.
> Manufacturers already take
> time to remove costs on their own.
>
> Remember when cassette tape was used as computer storrage
> devices? I had a
> friend that was using one as a part of a product he
> designed for TV
> stations. He went to the US distrubutor that told how their
> costs were "tto
> high" for Radio Shack, despite the fact that they had
> sorked diligently to
> remove costs. the final result was that the drive sold by
> RS had motors
> where instead of bearings, the motor had brass bushings.
>
> Think about that when shopping.
>
> Bill Pearce
>
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