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06/07/06 20:34
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#117980 - careful about that end-cost.
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Don't put the cart before the horse!

Typical market cost of a manufactured product is 4x, maybe even 5x the manufacturing cost. You have costs like documentation (the big ulgly part that has to come first), NRE (that's the part you'll like, the nonrecurring engineering), manufacturing, testing (another big ugly part, in which you verify that you've produced what the documentation says it is), packaging (you have to store and ship 'em in SOMETHING), inventory (where'll you keep the unsold units, pre-assembly parts, paperwork, packaging?), and marketing (How're you going to get rid of those unsold units?), among others.

It's likely that the documentation will stop you cold, and that's appropriate, and it's a daunting task, because if you can't develop a proper document set, you've no business trying to produce a product for someone else's use.

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\"Super\" Stamp Idea            01/01/70 00:00      
   Software            01/01/70 00:00      
   Tiny Basic            01/01/70 00:00      
   Stay away from the f3x and f4x deviates,            01/01/70 00:00      
      Comments            01/01/70 00:00      
         careful about that end-cost.            01/01/70 00:00      
            I wish            01/01/70 00:00      
            Cart -> Horse            01/01/70 00:00      
   Visit www.parallax.com to see stamps            01/01/70 00:00      
      Nuts & Volts            01/01/70 00:00      
   Re: super stamp            01/01/70 00:00      
      Stamp Clones            01/01/70 00:00      
         Beware..            01/01/70 00:00      

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