Thanks for bringing this up Nicholas....
Lets present some dollar numbers so that you better understand the costs of small rc production.
This was our first foray into 1/10 bodies so for us it was taking a risk on spending time and thousands of dollars on a segment that is
very very small in the world of RC-
on road gt racing. I was not sure how many bodies we would actually sell but I went ahead and set aside the budget for this body simply because I love the class and wanted to add choices to it.
Not knowing how bodies will sell, I just hope I can maybe sell 800pcs over these next few years.
Let's look at the production costs- with the body, shipping, masks and bagging we are making $4.75 for each body we ship to our distributors......
$4.75
And this does not include the actual cost of the design and mold (tool) production which is another $2000. So 800 bodies / $2000 = $2.50 per body. So the true profit per body we might make is $2.25 when we ship a body to the distributor
(not even including our employee and operations costs). And if we had hired a designer to make head/tailights and print glossy clear stickers the cost per body would have been an additional $2ea... assuming we are even able to ever sell 800 bodies lol!
Nicholas- you need to realize we are not selling thousands of these, just lucky to sell hundreds... and the additional costs of headlight stickers, for this small business, was the difference between even making the body or not.
Thanks all to those who've tried our body! I hope it is performing well for you! We did enjoy making these
