I admittedly didn't read the whole post, but it seems like you are trying to justify the cost of your slugs. That seems unnecessary. For those that are willing to pay the cost...they are obviously worth it to them. Unless you aren't selling enough of them to make it worth your while...who cares what the other people think. Just my opinion.
Mike
thank you for your opinion.
no I don't need to justify the price, certainly not in time when we have waiting lists for delivery with a waiting time for distributors or larger orders of 1-2 months, because production is not keeping up with demand.
My goal with this post is to let people know for what they are actually paying this extra cost. That it is certainly not due to advertising, branding or a dominant exclusive position, but that it is largely the price of the production itself.
For me personally, it is important that our customers, even those who decide not to buy the product, also know the background of the given product and not just information on whether product are currently selling well or not.
I believe that smaller manufacturers like you or us, regardless of the type of product, should have better contact with customers than the big ones who push it mostly with advertisements that often border on false advertising.
@Altaros For those of us wanting to try these but are on the fence due to the price (not to be confused with their VALUE which is more than well demonstrated), where should we be doing our shopping around for these in order to get the best price on them?
Any chance there is any kind of coupon to help entice the first time buyer into testing out their first tin? Probably not, but thought worth asking, and may be worth your consideration to help full more people into giving them a shot and potentially being able to see for themselves what value they really are through there own guns performance demonstrated with them.
The truth is that for the size of a company like ours, when shipments are sent by my colleague who is also in charge of final assembling and testing the pressure regulator, the first order of a new customer interested in slugs is, from our point of view, with a discount, since it is very often an order of one or two packages of slugs, when the time/wage costs for the complete processing of the order are in proportion to the turnover from this order, significantly larger than when order 5-10-20 packages in one order.
The processing time is the same, but in the first case the customer only pays the shipping cost and these another costs go to our company.
For us, it's an investment in a new customer that may or may not pay off, but it's our way of promoting slug testing rather than making these small orders more expensive.
I understand that the average customer is not very aware of these matters, especially not when they are used to, for example, buying from multinational companies such as Amazon, where the processing of the shipment is extremely automated and the difference between ordering an item for 10 USD or 200 USD is practically minimal and already included in shipping cost.
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