Prices of pre made!!

[domesticextremist]

Sept 22, 2017 21:43:22 GMT keepitgoin said:

20 fags around £10 for a known "Brand" which would be the average a smoker got through in a day (a lot more for me, less for others)I guess.
No way can even expensive pre-made juice cost the equivalent!

Give it time - many years ago I figured out that gums/patches at nicotine equivalent dose were just as costly as stinkies.
Of course there was no tobacco duty on the former, it was all pure profit.

[beedee]

Must admit, I like sticking two fingers up to producers of expensive products by making something myself cheaper, and better, than they do.

Also, I'm well into my second childhood and mixing is like playing the chemistry set I had as a kid.

But this is capitalism, folks, the 'free' market (not very 'free' at all if you don't have much dosh and you are the one having to pay through the nose....)

There are two ends of a spectrum in markets:

- Plan to sell a lot of products with a small profit margin - risky because enough people have to buy them, and consistently buy them, to keep you out of bankruptcy, (or, if there is an awful lot of people who want to buy them, to keep you in yachts, rolls-royces and diamond encrusted slippers ...).

- Plan to sell less with a larger margin - better for a start-up because you don't have to invest heavily in plant and staff, and you are not likely to get a mass market all at once anyway. Of course, then if you do get increasing sales - well - who is going to drop the price of things that are already flying off the shelves?

This market is not yet at a stage of very high volume production, it's specialist and new, so there are a lot of start ups, encouraged in by the fact that it does not require massive investment to start producing enough to sell, so the high prices are bit inevitable

Just glad I don't have to pay them