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For what is' worth, I get a feeling part makers, the big ones, are content with the market as it is. They are horribly inefficiend and morally outdated and stil
by RealityVoid 9y ago
For what is' worth, I get a feeling part makers, the big ones, are content with the market as it is. They are horribly inefficiend and morally outdated and still make heaps and heaps of money.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoI don't think any part of that last sentence is true...
- emodendroket 9y agoI feel like somebody is making money from crazy expensive OEM parts.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoMaking money? Yes. Making heaps and heaps of money? Probably not. Expensive parts are usually expensive for a good reason. Typical reasons are: time consuming to build; tiny market, so costs are spread over a small number of orders; materials are expensive and cost of mistakes is high; overhead is high because of the loans on expensive machinery and supplies & power to keep them running; combinations of the above! Having talked to people in the automotive supply industry, it's a low-margin, cutthroat way to make money. Not a whole lot of people getting rich making auto parts. At least not in the lower tiers.
- RealityVoid 9y agoMaybe it was an exaggeration from my part with the heaps of money. I don't do budgets, I write software, but I've seen the price the parts we're building come with and I have an ideea what it's worth. I just feel that the way they approach the problem is very inefficient, they could do things better cheaper, more reliable if they had a better approach, but thye don't and I feel, compared to other markets, the presults are very expensive relative to what they deliver.