Paul_G
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Side note, Browsing ebay last night it sure seemed like prices for 73 74 parts are up from last year. New and old.
and if there is not enough customers for Mopars you can imagine how many customers for AMC ? which is REALLY low
but you can get an AMX grill in $400
http://www.americanpartsdepot.com/grilles.htm
so all the profit deal is BULLSHIT
As I stated before, we were told right from the source that the Mopar line as a whole has not covered the tooling costs overall. Sure some of the better selling parts are turning a profit, and the ones that don't will be discontinued or made in limited runs. Business is business, and most are in business to make money!Yeap but how many dollars do you need to make one mold? $4K? Or maybe $100K?
Nonsense
Aside this, everything is being made in CHINA! The CHEAPER place to make it!
We already produce the various washer bottles and one overflow bottle for the Mopar applications. @Nacho-RT74 I know that I have relayed this information as you were interested in the overflow bottles for the 71 and up B-Body applications. Looking into that particular piece for say the 71 B-Body, we were looking at close to $40,000 in tooling and development cost. Lets say that we have another $5,000 to make a run of 200 units. Without any other cost like packaging / labeling, a 7 to 12% license agreement with FCA, shipping or warehousing cost, we would have at a minimum $225 in each unit. Factor in the extra cost that I mentioned and that unit cost is approaching $260 per unit or $52,000 sitting on the shelf, before the first unit sells. If we want to make a 30% return on that investment, we would have to sell that overflow bottle at $338. How many will you sell at that price point? That is why that project was put on hold until someone stepped up and agreed to help in the cost of the run.
You can go overseas and have the part done and cut the cost by 50 to 60%. But now instead of running 200, they will want you to run 500 units. Then you have to worry with shipping cost, etc. Secondly, many of these overseas vendors will only agree to doing a run based on a second run say for example 100 units two years from the delivery of the first run. So sales do not justify a second run for you. You still have 20% of your product sitting on the shelf as the demand decreases. The next thing that you know, is that the manufacture will go to retailer XYZ with the product at X amount of dollars. Retailer XYZ has only the cost of the product now which the manufacturer will sell to keep themselves busy. So the next thing that you know is that same part is popping up retailing for a third of the cost of your part. So what do you with your part once again?
We are all car guys deep down, but the financials do not lie. Unless you can do the part on a very small scale and control the cost yourself, then it can be a very risky road.