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Yes, and it seems clear from the article that this was understood going into the project. They got screwed when their production volume dropped from 50,000+ (vi
by asuffield 12y ago
Yes, and it seems clear from the article that this was understood going into the project. They got screwed when their production volume dropped from 50,000+ (viable for injection moulding) to 2,000 (not viable for anything), after it became clear that the product they had designed was not sellable in the market.
- teraflop 12y agoThe whole point of Kickstarter is supposedly to let people fund projects that require a minimum investment to be feasible, without their money going to waste if that minimum isn't met. If they knew their business model was only viable with 50,000 orders at $99 each, they should have set their target at $5million. Anything else is dishonest and deceptive.
- msandford 12y agoI can't understand how these idiots didn't think to use ProtoMold so that their tooling costs would be reasonable. http://www.protolabs.com/protomold http://www.protolabs.com/protomold $10k buys you a LOT of tooling there and they'll do the maintenance on it if it starts to wear. Yeah you pay more per part, but who cares if it's a $0.20 or a $0.30 part when you're talking about going from $1 to $0.10 of overhead per part. This whole thing reeks of massive, gross incompetence.