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Subject:Re: Price breakdowns On The ECO/Rocker "KIT" (no Vanagon content)
From:SyncroHead
Date:Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:42:50 EDT
In a message dated 98-04-15 22:46:29 EDT, vwbus@MINDSPRING.COM writes:

> $250 for a $5 prom that for any other application would be $100, ludicrous
as well

The cost of the PROM is not important in the cost of the product you're buying
here.  The real cost comes in the development and the programming.  Since
those costs are fixed after the product goes to market, they must be divided
up over the total number of units sold.  Given that the Chevy application
might sell 100 times the volume as the Vanagon chip, the $100. Chevy price
starts to look ridiculuos, not the $250. Vanagon price!