MegaSquirt

[Bruce Bowling]

Hello Josh,

When we close the group purchase out (on 11-15), we will get the final 
number of boards and start re-quoting the price for PCB manufacturing - 
this is why we had everyone hold off on sending payment before we get this 
final number. The 100 unit mark was the big hurdle for PCB price reduction, 
higher quantities reduce the cost but not that significantly unless we make 
something like 500 boards. The price of setup and ATE testing averages out 
over all the boards, which helps as well.

The other thing we have to watch out for is those who sign up and then 
never follow through with the payment (i.e deadbeat). On the 4-layer EFI332 
board, we had about 18 units out of 230 which no one ever sent in payment, 
so we ended up losing our own money on these because we ordered the 230 
quantity from the PCB house to get that price. We have been selling these 
boards here and there over the last two years, and have about 5 left to go 
before we break even.

Some of the participants of the this group purchase are not associated with 
this list - these are the ones that concern me the most since I cannot use 
peer pressure as effectively (i.e. the deadbeat list).  We will just have 
to wait and see on this.

- Bruce


At 04:46 AM 11/12/01 -0800, Joshua Ely wrote:

>Bruce and Al,
>  Thank you for this awesome fi set up. I was wondering if the
>price was gonna drop below $100 because you got so many orders.
>Don't get me wrong. I think $100 is a great price. I am just
>asking because I ordered 4 units and even a $10 savings per unit
>is $40 total.
>Thanks,
>Josh
> >--- Original Message ---
> >From: Bruce Bowling <bbowling at earthlink.net>
> >To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> >Date: 11/10/01 8:12:25 AM
> >One last thing - we have passed the 100 unit mark, so the $100.00
>price is
> >a go. The group purchase will close on November 15th, and this
>is a
> >one-time group purchase. The MegaSquirt web page is
> >http://www.bgsoflex.com/megasquirt.html , and the sign-up page
>is
> >http://www.bgsoflex.com/register.html
> >
> >- Bruce

- Bruce

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              Bruce A. Bowling
          bbowling at earthlink.net
    http://home.earthlink.net/~bbowling
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