What of cost goes into manufacturing cartridges?

Blueranger 04-01-12

Ahhhhh....one final April fools joke I see. Good one.

Blueranger, Your price 'range' is wrong. Consider the custom, the VTA (tax), the dealers fees + the importer fees. With the price you mentioned we may be induced to transfer some (gift)money to the producer involved in order to keep him in life. More interesting is the question about the carts above,say, 4 K.The most of those are put together from parts which are bought from the suppliers. Even Allearts buy his cantilever/stylus combos from Gyger. But if he himself winds the wire on those small plates he is entiteld to ask what he likes for his cart. He actually does exactly that. My own problem is more about those, so called , 'precious stones'. As soon as you leave the shop and before you installed the cart in your tonearm you have already lost a fortune. Try to sell those stones on their own. You will be shocked. I want even mention those 'precious wood' kinds. Can you imagine the price difference between a small peace of ebony and bryere wood kind of $1500? Well the joke is: they share the same generator. I was always so focused on the French 'árt' to sell their products for ridiculous prices
that I totally forget about the Swiss. The Japanese are inscrutable for us in the West so I want mention Koetsus.

Regards,

The sole determinant of sales price is value in the market place.

Cost of production etc. only determines if you will make or lose money.

Remember Pet Rocks?

Apbiii, This looks like a circular argument because 'sales price' and the 'market price' (not 'place') are the same.
The old classical economist like Ricardo, Smith, Marx, etc.
differentiated between the 'value in use' and the 'value in exchange' and even between the values and prices. But nobody got this 'theory of value' consistent. So we still use money value to value goods while nobody knows which value our money will have next year.
Blueranger assumed some connection between the 'çost of production' and the market prices and he is right to do so according to even the modern economic theory. BTW no buseness is possible without comparison between those two magnitudes. His argument is , if I understand him well, that the prices of carts (MC's in particular) lost any connection with the cost of production. The market place on the other hand is the same for the reach as well for the poor. We all know who can afford + 4 K carts. So it
should be obvious for whom such carts are produced. Those are called 'exclusive market segments' and are as such exception of the rule.

Regards,