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Re: price increases

2003-09-26 by John Papiewski

There are other things going on too... Rex says he spends a lot of time
QC'ing parts. The knobs for example can have flashing, not be polished,
be missing the white index stripe, missing the set screw, etc. I'm sure
some of you out there have heard him talk about this too.
Maybe the board-stuffing part isn't the biggest problem. Anyway I'm
guessing here, and I'm not good at that.

Peter Grenader wrote:
> Yeah, there are minimums, that's called running an electronics business.
> My last employer, M&K, would get lots as small as of 10 each on their power
> amp boards. You forecast how many of a certain type you sell in a year, you
> make 10 of them, you know how long you have until 10 more will be needed.
> There's an outlay of cash, but it can be turned quicker because you have the
> product on hand to sell, ship and earn on.
>
>

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