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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Startup noise in Seagate ST225
Message-ID: <1765@rti.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 00:07:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: rti.1765
Posted: Mon Oct  5 00:07:06 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Oct-87 00:59:40 EDT
References: <3898@ecsvax.UUCP> <2490012@hpsadla.HP>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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Summary: Quantity pricing

In article <2490012@hpsadla.HP>, dsd@hpsadla.HP (Donald St. Denis) writes:
> 
>      From a very un-reliable source ST-225s sell in quantity for <$150
> (my brother seemed to think it was $135).

Most electronic hardware retails for something like 10x over manufacturing
costs (qty 1), the rest going for things like marketing and support.  
Since Seagate drives retail for around $500 in qty 1, this means that their
manufacturing costs must be around $50.  Buyers in quantity naturally have
quite a bit of room to play in - I assumed from the context that the
question was about someone wanting to fix a _single_ or at most a _couple_
of drives.  And in that context $170 +/- is not a bad price - certainly
better than you can do from the typical mail order supplier.

						Bruce C. Wright