Metal detector prices.

[TRIPLE-SSS]

How does a company figure out what to charge for a metal detector with such huge differences in prices!

 

[coinspader]

I would imagine they figure in production cost, research and development cost, how many features the detector has and what new features it has. I usually never buy a detector that has been newly released, I wait for other users to work out whatever bugs there may be with the machine, I think the only detectors I have purchased when they were first released was the Equinox and the First Deus, neither one disappointed me. : )

 

[Picketwire]

Supply and demand. People will pay a high price for premium performance, no matter the cost to produce.

 

[TRIPLE-SSS]

I would imagine they figure in production cost, research and development cost, how many features the detector has and what new features it has. I usually never buy a detector that has been newly released, I wait for other users to work out whatever bugs there may be with the machine, I think the only detectors I have purchased when they were first released was the Equinox and the First Deus, neither one disappointed me. : )

The way I look at it would be like getting a bill from 2 different doctors. One charges you $5,000, for services snd the other one charges you $2,500. for the same services. The difference would be in overhead operating costs even though their was no real difference in care.