Dna40 Squonker in a Hammond box is finally finished.

[geordie_vaper]

chucky tenner a week

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Mar 23, 2015 21:56:05 GMT geordie_vaper said:

£150 for a dna40 squonker is a great price mate, if i wasnt saving up for non vaping things at the moment ad hapilly pay £150+ for it

Cheers geordie_vaper thats made me feel a whole lot better, i dont really know a lot about this squonking lark. Haven't even got an atty to test it

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Mar 23, 2015 22:01:50 GMT geordie_vaper said:

chucky tenner a week

Do you know what mate im very tempted as you can test it out for me and give me a verdict on anything that could be done better. 

[geordie_vaper]

i would hapilly be the guinea pig haha

[VapingBad]

Seriously @windows £150 for that is dirt cheap, if not cheaper unless you are a CNC machine shop in a low wage, low regulation and low taxation economy using cheap clone parts and knocking the out in thousands. I just pray you don't get any bad luck or break any of them or will be paying for the privilege of making these.

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Mar 23, 2015 22:45:20 GMT VapingBad said:

Seriously @windows £150 for that is dirt cheap, if not cheaper unless you are a CNC machine shop in a low wage, low regulation and low taxation economy using cheap clone parts and knocking the out in thousands. I just pray you don't get any bad luck or break any of them or will be paying for the privilege of making these.

Cheers VapingBad Well ive got the cnc but not the rest. Ive found it very hard to judge what is a good price as there does not seem to be a lot around to compare it too. Most of the one's ive found seem to be homemade unregulated.

[geordie_vaper]

regulated squonkers i have seen go for depending on the currency rate between £170 to £250ish

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I agree with VapingBad anything sub £200 is a bargain for something like you're building @windows

I know there's a good choice of inexpensive temperature protected mods around, and that makes it hard to justify the true worth of a hand produced example (same as it ever was )
but where's the competition for what you're producing and what do they cost?

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Well im not in this to make loads of money im quite happy to make just a little bit on any mod i make. Im more into the fact that i really enjoy making them and the satisfaction that someone is using a mod that i made.
If it turns out to be ok ( and i will finish it this weekend if it kills me ) and i can get £150 for them then i will be happy to make some more.

[macmagoo]

Looking forward to seeing the finished product.

[VapingBad]

IMO price at costs + labour at a reasonable rate + a % provision for wastage and returns.

I don't believe you are getting you materials at wholesale prices and if you break one or it goes awol in the post I would guess you are going to be working for free if you are doing a few or be out of pocket if you are only making couple. Then if you get the DNA40 screen prob in six months time (both mine have, only once on the October one and once a day on the December board) your customers will expect you to fix it, Evolv will exchange the board, but you will still incur postage expenses and have to find the time to do as you are not the kind of guy would leave your customers high and dry. I know you are not in it for the money, but as you are doing more mods you need to factor these things in just to cover yourself. The forum members here are nice people, but if you start selling on FB or eBay then be prepared for people returning things that don't even have a fault.

Best of luck mate you are doing a great job you won't get rich, but don't sell yourself short either it has to be fair for bath parties.

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Mar 23, 2015 23:48:09 GMT VapingBad said:

IMO price at costs + labour at a reasonable rate + a % provision for wastage and returns.

I don't believe you are getting you materials at wholesale prices and if you break one or it goes awol in the post I would guess you are going to be working for free if you are doing a few or be out of pocket if you are only making couple. Then if you get the DNA40 screen prob in six months time (both mine have, only once on the October one and once a day on the December board) your customers will expect you to fix it, Evolv will exchange the board, but you will still incur postage expenses and have to find the time to do as you are not the kind of guy would leave your customers high and dry. I know you are not in it for the money, but as you are doing more mods you need to factor these things in just to cover yourself. The forum members here are nice people, but if you start selling on FB or eBay then be prepared for people returning things that don't even have a fault.

Best of luck mate you are doing a great job you won't get rich, but don't sell yourself short either it has to be fair for bath parties.

Cheers VapingBad ive only ever intended to sell to the guys on here, thats why i keep my labour charge down to the bare bones.
I dont have a Facebook account and i wouldn't go near ebay, there's too many numpties on it.

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Fair play to you @windows I like your attitude and I'm sure most on here respect that.

Totally different I know but I can't help thinking back to the hounding surrounding Gizmo and the outcome, shame.

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Mar 24, 2015 19:42:22 GMT @scooby said:

Fair play to you @windows I like your attitude and I'm sure most on here respect that.

Totally different I know but I can't help thinking back to the hounding surrounding Gizmo and the outcome, shame.

I think that might have been before my time @scooby or i just missed it, so i dont really know the story.

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Best let sleeping dogs lie @windows