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Why is the product you want not $100?
Because companies that could have them need higher volume beyond what you think,
Companies that would service customers here, would need to make money.
(That $15 Pasta dish at dinner costs around $.86 to make)
After sales and before sales, service, emails, and support in this hobby are very time consuming,
along with employee costs, insurance, overhead, etc.
Your estimate is real, only with large numbers, and no service.....
IMHO.
Quoted from TimeBandit:I MAKE a custom DMD for my DMD aprons. 4096 individual LEDs. It’s a freaking nightmare. Yeah, it’s simple in theory, but unless you’re going to run 10000 of them they are going to be expensive. For me to get them made at a level just so that I can sell them at a reasonable price and make NO money I have to order $10,000.00 worth at a clip.
Yup, when I looked into this...Vishay, China, Taiwan....10,000 units was the amount needed to start.
$50 was a target. All said and done, freight, advertising, storage, close to 1 Million dollars to start
this business! Break even would be by my estimates, 10-12 years, if lucky.
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