4 Jan
2012
4 Jan
'12
12:57 p.m.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
It was only this single Part on the picture about that
I've sayd this can't
be made econmically even for a chinese. The price difference between the
original part and the small noname cap and the additional used parts
(Housing, tube, print, bottom and contacts plus the needed work) will
really be to small, even for an chinese worker.
Don't overestimate the costs of making fake products compared to real
ones. It's unlikely the maker of that cap-in-a-cap paid full price
for the inner cap, and the outer shell/print/bottom are a fixed cost
anyway - they just saved on a) having to have/run a machine that rolls
real caps and b) the full cost on the materials for a real cap. It's
probably they picked up a truckload of smaller caps at pennies on the
dollar (or yuan) and _that_ can easily be cheaper than making
legitimate product from fair-market raw materials.
And even if the profit margin is only $0.05 per unit more than doing
it "right", someone will still be happy to take home that extra profit
at the consumer's expense.
-ethan