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- On Tue, 5 Mar 1996 ramius@gslink.net wrote:
- > >I don't think the $60 is to high... I mean come on.. the guy has to make
- > >some money! Now, if it is only costing him $5 per tape, then I would
- > >complain...
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- > My father does some tape duplication for several people when they need it in
- > the form of training or sales video's usually, and the occassional school
- > play. Thus they are small quantities....so would this video, so
- > _similar_are most likely. I am not sure where they said they were from,
- > different parts of the counrty would have different prices obviousely due to
- > location, and number of tape duplication places. More dup. places, the
- > cheaper the prices...however this pricing is generally true for the Central
- > Flor. region....
- >
- > For the entire work of shooting and editing a school play, this includes the
- > school's mark up - it is about $18, if I remeber right. Of that - he has
- > calculated $5 for the price of the tape, the cover(not cardboard, but a hard
- > plastic), and the wear and tear on his duplication decks. That is what a
- > small duplicating company would generally charge according to him when I
- > asked him.
- >
- > So I guess you _could_ complain becasue it costing him about $5 per tape....
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- Your father is selling the tapes to the school so he doesn't need to
- market the tapes. That saves him TONS of money as far as advertising,
- order taking, packaging and shipping goes. That's where 95% of your
- expenses are. The price to make a tape is the cheapest part of the whole
- process. I think you're missing the point.
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- If your point was valid, then ALL CD roms for the PC which cost less than
- $1 to make would be outrageously priced if they cost $10 each... I mean
- that would be at least a 1,000% mark-up! Yikes.
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- Besides, who can put a price on information? If you've got information
- that everybody wants and nobody else has, you can charge as much as you
- want. You just have to feel out the market and figure out how much you
- think you can charge for something and still maintain plenty of sales.
- Marketing is everything when it comes to selling a product (In almost
- every case).
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- Manuel Coats
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