I don't know how much Benedini or Beier or the others make on there products.....its not really my business..... but assuming they make a massive amount of money based on what a Chinese sweat shop making thousands of units can make them for...... it seems like an unfair comparison.

Using the same logic....no one should buy an American car as the chinese make knock off copies for much cheaper therefore the American company is ripping people off?

If Benedini takes 2 hours to assemble and test and pack and post unit, and assumes each unit represents a 1 hour portion of the total research and development time and assumes he will spend 1 hour per unit in support on average.......if he gives himself minimum German wage of 10 euro.....that's 40 euro. His units cost 130 euro before vat so that's 90 euro. He takes from this material costs, taxes on income, printing of manuals, packaging costs etc....and may end up with 50 euro profit per unit? Maximum?

I don't think that's a ripoff just because an authoritarian regime produces lower quality units with no manual, support or service for less.

And that's the only argument being made really. The chinese make them cheaper so we must be getting ripped off by everyone else.

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