4 feet of acrylic and water pump assembly for $9800 anybody?

[mark]

For some things of course one can accept a higher than cost than what the materials only are worth, but the item at the start of this is essentially some plastic glued together and a pump.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by mark

For some things of course one can accept a higher than cost than what the materials only are worth, but the item at the start of this is essentially some plastic glued together and a pump.

you've never built a skimmer, right? I'd guess most of the cost in these skimmers is to recoup the costs of the machinery to get those pieces of plastic into gluing condition...

but if someone just wants some plastic glued together (sure I have some around somewhere) and a pump, I can do that for the low cost of $4000. Less than half!!

[Quagmire]

I'll wait for the bubble king rip offs that should be coming out within the next year or so

[andresont]

Brand new Honda Civic is about two times that much.
9800$ is ridiculous amount of money for some acrylic glued together. Do I need an Engineering degree to do that?
I had never made a skimmer , but I never made a car ether !

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Duuuuude, you own a Tunze Wavebox....while we're on the subject of acrylic, glued together

[skylord]

Lets see....a Tunze plastic wave box, a Tunze plastic pump, another Tunze plastic pump with a plastic controller and a Deltic plastic skimmer.....all total about 2000 with tax's. Divide that by 60 gallons and you get over 30 dollars per gallon for your plastic.

This big *** skimmer is less than 4 dollars per gallon. Sounds like a deal to me...

Scott

[albert_dao]

OMFG OMFG OMFG, I just had a godfricking essay deleted by random IE SHUTDOWN. PIECE OF CRAP! HOLY CRAP! I HATE THIS THING. FIREFOX FOREVER, FRICK!

[Static]

Originally Posted by andresont

Brand new Honda Civic is about two times that much.
9800$ is ridiculous amount of money for some acrylic glued together. Do I need an Engineering degree to do that?
I had never made a skimmer , but I never made a car ether !

If the manufacturer sets up tooling to make these the costs have to be covered by the number of units sold. So if you're comparing these skimmers to mass produced automobiles you have to compare the numbers that are being produced, and divide the r&d +tooling and manufacturing setup by the number of products produced.

Not to justify the cost of the skimmer but it is worth the exact amount that someone is willing to pay for it.

If you want an example of a product where production cost is far far less than the selling price, look at computer software. How many copies of Windows has been sold. It probably costs Microsoft less than a cent per copy to have the cd printed and it sells for $100 and up http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...c.asp?CatId=26

[Veng68]

Why not spend $40000 US (not including shipping) and get this http://www.aquasonic.com.au/brochures/rk2_brochure.pdf

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]