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      11-27-2012, 07:55 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by bulldog x6 View Post
The vendor has to be incented to make the product.
I've always found this way of thinking as...short sighted. If you could sell 200 units @ $200/each you would have MORE "incentive" than if you sold 7 (the # of "I would buys in the poll above at the time of this post". Which would provide more incentive to a manufacturer?

I am also a member of a motorcycle forum where a LOT of vendors are. One vendor has offered a "keyless start" modification for non-Harley bikes for about 2 years now and up until ast week he was asking $489/unit. I honestly don't think he has sold more than ten in that time. We started a "group buy" for them and he agreed to drop the price based on the number of interested buyers. He got 30 buyers @ $249/unit. Seems like he figured it out & if he can do it, then other developers could do the same thing, right?

And just in the event that you might want to verify my reference, here it is...
http://www.thevog.net/forum/thread/1...nition/page_1/
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