Contaced a Factory in China about producing a run of fully populated Mini-migs

[HenryCase]

terminator4 wrote:
this includes sadly Amiga One (Taiwan or China?) with many bugs.  Even the DMA issue was due to bad manufacturing I think.

You're blaming DMA issues on the people that did the soldering! It couldn't be bad design, oh no, definitely not that.

Look mate, like others have said, if you don't want to buy from China you don't have to.

As for the whole 'taking our jobs' issue, the sad state of affairs (not limited to US, UK suffers from it too) is that job losses are never caused by other countries but rich people in OUR OWN COUNTRIES, but everyone blames the immigrant workers or whatever. The rich are the enemy (when I mean rich, I mean the people who get paid way too much for whatever it is they do) because they treat the rest of us badly and we're so blind to this we blame other poor people for job security issues.

[HenryCase]

Crom00 wrote:
after all they're running a business where volume pricing is a key factor.

Maybe I'm being dumb here... if Minimigs are only profitable for these factories in 1000+ volumes, why don't they sell us the price to produce 100+ units? If potential Minimig owners are still prepared to pay the higher unit price then everyone wins, right?

[HenryCase]

@Crom00
Two questions:
1. What quotes have you had for 1000+ production runs?
2. Would subsequent runs be cheaper?

[HenryCase]

Darrin wrote:
I certainly wouldn't admit the price and simply anounce a retail cost per unit on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

Fair point.

Crom00 wrote:
Problem is that the final cost depends on many factors. Not just first cost on manufacturing.

Also, prices can vary from month to month (even in toys).

Two more good points.

Crom00, can you at least give us a ball park retail figure to gauge interest (using the figures from the companies you've had offers from so far, natch)?

[HenryCase]

unknown1 wrote:
I think $100-150 would be entirely reasonable for us Amiga Fans.

When eventually done like the Commodore 64 DTV in massive :idea: quantities I think something like $59.95-79.95 would be right.  :-D

Unknown1, those prices would be very reasonable, but it looks like we may have to pay more than you estimate.

Crom00, please give us an estimate for the retail figure to stop the price speculation. Please!!!

[HenryCase]

Okay, well, please keep us up to date with any progress you make.