Paul Crovella wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: >> Paul Crovella wrote: >>> Adam Maas wrote: >>>> Pentax lenses, which are in lower supply and demand, have a restricted >>>> number of sellers >>> Adam, yes, *that* is supply and demand. The supply is low and while the >>> demand isn't huge, it's big enough in relation to supply to keep prices up. >>> >>> Saying that they cost more because they don't sell is ludicrous. >> Actually, it isn't. Low-production items need to have larger profit >> margins to be economically viable (since they have to cover a larger >> amount per unit of your non-production costs and profit). And the cost >> of production is higher as well, since you lose many of the benefits of >> mass production (notably the ability to negotiate lower costs per unit >> of the necessary materials for manufacture because you aren't buying as >> much). So, yes, an item will cost more if it sells notably less. >> >> -Adam >> > > Read again what you just wrote. You're talking about low *production* - > supply! >
Read again what I wrote. The costs aren't due to limited supply of lenses compared to demand, but due to the inherently higher costs of doing short production runs and higher per-unit profit requirements to make the product viable. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
