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They'd sell for a high price not necessarily due to price gouging, but because it costs a lot to sell to the military. The overhead of quality control, support,
by erydo 15y ago
They'd sell for a high price not necessarily due to price gouging, but because it costs a lot to sell to the military. The overhead of quality control, support, and all of the bureaucracy involved in dealing with a military customer would dwarf the actual per-unit cost.
- seagaia 15y agoThat sounds like an incredible waste with the overhead. I absolutely don't understand it. I think people in those power positions really need to stop treating the whole structure like a black box and realize it shouldn't be that damn hard to send some RC cars to Iraq to save lives.
- protomyth 15y agoThe DOD does take quite a bit of overhead to work with. They also do buy some stuff at pretty competitive prices. As I remember the tent contracts were actually pretty reasonable compared to what commercial 30-man tents cost (actually less than quite a few). // Dad used to work for place that made tents and bags for DOD
- jarin 15y agoThe DoD is the ultimate Waterfall Method practitioner.