This guy is posting this on Facebook and selling sk68 clones for 20 bucks each. I posted a link to buy the same light for less than 5 and got blocked from posting on his page! What a douche ripping of unsuspecting people. On Facebook, he claims he makes the lights himself.
I hate people like this, but honestly not worth my time to post on it, if people don’t do the legwork themselves to find out that this is a ripoff it’s on them.
Im pretty sure the price of item is what someone is willing to pay for it. Not what someone else is selling it for, or can get it for. In an economics 101 sense they are relevant, but if people are paying $20, then that is what they are worth, to those people.
When it comes to flashlights, you can get a lot less for $20 just going to any hardware or camping store (around here anyway) So to a lot of people, that's not a bad deal. Unfortunately for most people, they are yet to discover the awesome world of good quality budget flashlights, and also BLF.
Did you check on the knives he’s selling? Are they from China as well?
Gack, did you read about the walking sticks he’s selling?
“These Walking Sticks are … gathered, dried and hand whittled in the Southern Appalachian Mountain Chain. Appalachian Mountain men are a wild and independent breed, and mostly like to keep to themselves. They have developed many unique folk crafts and are awesome bear hunters. It is said that each of these sticks has a wise old wild spirit captured by the whittler. Each spirit is different and, as legend has it, links with the owner, imparting mountain grown hiking energy, and trail savvy….”
So if you come across an Awesome Bear, whack it with your magic stick.
Anyone who believes most marketing hype without checking things out is a candidate for the Darwin award anyway. Personally I think that false advertising should be a capital crime but in that case there would be very few lawyers, realtors, car salesmen, fundamentalist preachers or politicians around!
It’s not nice too fool people into paying way too much.
The Darwin award might end up in the hands of a decaying world (because) of too many greedy bastards…
I worked in manufacturing for many years in Silicon Valley. Actual direct costs of building most manufactured items in the USA at the time for materials and direct labor was about 10% of the final retail cost. The costs of facilities, engineering of all kinds, marketing, warranty service, taxes etc were not included in the direct manufacturing cost but were high enough and relatively fixed so if production fall off just a bit the company could lose money.
At retail take a look at things like the jewelry business where the typical markup is 3X the wholesale price they buy for, or more in many cases.