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When I saw the cooler I thought it was great and I would own it. But when I finally saw the price tag on Amazon, I just couldn't justify the purchase. I can't s
by kin 11y ago
When I saw the cooler I thought it was great and I would own it. But when I finally saw the price tag on Amazon, I just couldn't justify the purchase. I can't say the speaker is necessary and I wonder how much cheaper the cooler would be if I could just remove that feature.
- jandrese 11y agoBluetooth speakers are like $5. Seriously. It's not like this is some expensive Bose nonsense or like it comes with 18" subs. This is a shitty shower speaker glued into the side.
- giarc 11y agoI'm surprised an oversea's manufacturer hasn't ripped this off yet.
- nefitty 11y agoWell, that manufacturer just has to fulfill these $500 originals then they can turn around and spit out a $150 version.
- ljk 11y agoProbably because it's not worth the effort to do it
- astrodust 11y agoImitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so is snubbing it and not copying the worst insult?
- giarc 11y agoThere are 30,000 people who are waiting for a cooler with these added features, 20,000 or so that have bought one already. They all paid $190 I think, therefore manufacturers know the price point they need to hit and know there is a market for them. The innovative features are all easily copied (LED lights, strap, wide wheels, bluetooth speaker, USB charger). The blender is perhaps the part they choose to leave out.
- makomk 11y agoI think they sort of have - there are coolers on Amazon with integrated Bluetooth speakers, wheels, extending handle, phone charging, basically everything but the blender.
- joshmn 11y agoI don't know why or how on earth this costs so much to make. * Speaker? $5 for something decent enough to work. Find AmazonBasics supplier, crank that up to $10. * Blender? I can buy a "good" blender from Hamilton Beach for $20. * Plastic parts? I don't know. Can't be that much, can it? * Power? $20 will get you a really nice battery. Just put in a power brick battery thingy. * Bottle opener? $4 will get you the nicest one from China, and it's probably coated in diamonds.
- ljk 11y agowhat confuses me is it costs so much, but they want to make the cooler _look_ like any other $30 cooler? are people throwing money at this just because it has some gimmick features?
- joshmn 11y agoWhere's Elon when you need him?
- makomk 11y ago> Plastic parts? I don't know. Can't be that much, can it? Yes, it really can be that much. Making ordinary plastic parts involves electro-machining very precisely shaped chunks of metal designed to optimise the flow of the hot plastic injected into them at high pressure and make sure it cools properly without too much shrinkage or warping and then ejects reliably. It's expensive. Since this is a cooler that needs a foamed plastic insulating layer as well, I imagine it's even more complicated.
- ghaff 11y agoDon't forget the plastic plates! I can actually understand why the costs might be so high if they're doing custom parts. The per-unit cost might be low but setting up molds etc. could be quite expensive. (Though that doesn't quite square with the claim of needing more money to complete an additional lot.) In general, this seems like the sort of thing which really doesn't make a lot of sense in a Kickstarter context. I get the fact that it's cute in a certain gimicky sort of way but if I actually wanted something like this personally, I'd buy whatever size cooler at whatever price point made sense to me and put together a nice kit with whatever other accessories I wanted.