DIY Goose Gear Style Platform

[ecoBLVE]

All true but you have to remember companies that make these products have to have work spaces (production facilities), they pay property tax, infrastructure mortgages, electric costs, CNG machines, wood working machine, dust extractors, paint booths, vapor exhausts system, employee health care, employee wages, IT overhead, many have EPA associated costs, workers comp insurance. We DIYers don't have any of those costs. I don't think they make as much as it might seem. The profit margins are fairly tight I suspect.

Same can be said about Milk and Eggs, yet we dont see that overhead reflected in price.
Those things come in when you build scale, and manufacturing business.
Still does not justify one product price markup that is in multiple thousands.

in-fact, with scale comes lower cost of acquiring materials, so the platform they sell is likely $50 in parts and materials, plus someone at $14/hr to make it, obviously no insurance.

Companies like this are opportunistic, they see a gap in the market with potential customers, and know how to target them (American-made, small business owner…. Etc.)

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[FRV]

Seems like you have identified a market opportunity. You should dive in and give it a go.

 

[ecoBLVE]

Seems like you have identified a market opportunity. You should dive in and give it a go.

I love what you have done here. I think that is a way to go — show the people how things are made, and inspire them to do better.

Call out opportunistic hackers who sell one-side-painted untreated plywood products to be mounted inside cars at an unbelievably steep markup — under the guise of ‘Made in America’.

I am not a fabricator on you level, but I am a product designer, and have every bit of intention to learn from what you made, ‘open source’ that process and apply it with some more car-safe materials, and give to people as a project plan to execute on their own.

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