I suspect that the problem is not with the demand but in the difficulty of marketing the craft to create demand. There are a number of cheap, flimsy rafts on the market and his problem is that he has not been able to differentiate his product from the cheap ones - at least in the eyes of the public. The Web site certainly gives little insight on this. I, for example, might be interested in such a craft but would be very hesitant to shell out $300 for a seven pound pontoon craft unless I were truly convinced it would hold up. Perhaps some sort of unconditional warranty (at least a year) might help. Of course, even an unconditional warranty might not do the trick. In the case of something like this, it is much like a money-back warranty on a parachute. In the case of a pontoon craft, my main concern would be assurances it will not fail me in the middle of a deep lake.
mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, that is exactly what he has done. He has dropped his price to his cost, and >at the new $300.00 price they ARE selling... but he isn't making any profit. So >"demand" has spoken and said that there isn't a market for a truly light weight >pontoon craft... unless you make it with materials so cheap that it might become a >hazard to the user.
