IT'S HERE! IT'S BIG... IT'S BLACK AND I WANT TO DO NAUGHTY THINGS TO IT!!!!

Mr Krugga said:
Works out at $450 excluding VAT, that's a hefty mark-up.
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I wish I made that level of profit on them. :)

The biggest raw cost increase for the UK is the shipping costs involved in getting pallet stock delivered to the UK. Have you ever obtained the cost to air frieght a pallet of goods from the Far East to the unit? $500-$600 a pallet. When you only get 8-10 cases to a pallet, thats around $50-$60 dollar cost increase per unit.

I will be frank, around 10% margin on these, thats margin not mark up by the way. 10% mark up is better than 10% margin. That 10% margin is on the Ex Vat price, so I will put it into raw numbers, around £28 profit, thats not a lot on a £340 product.

To be honest, I should not be saying what profit I make on an item, but I'm fed up of the people who complain about prices all the time. I wish I made the margins that MacDonalds make on their burgers. Then I would be rather happy :) But the IT components industry is so competitive it is unreal!

Also the product is a luxury item; so yes it has a hefty price to it; however if you don't want to spend that, then your life goes on; it is not a "must buy" item now.
 
Lionsheart said:
To all the people who think it's overpriced, It is not aimed at you.
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Yup, it is aimed for the people that have more money than sense or/and just want to increase their "epeen".

No other reason reason for people to spend this much on a PC case when you can get a case that looks as good or better and replace all the stock fans for even better ones and still come out with plenty of money left, a better and quieter case.

Just google cooler master cosmos II and look at the reviews, most of them show hardly any difference in temps, like 4 degrees is the max difference IIRC. Is that really worth an extra £200-250? And one review even showed a couple of £100 cases beating it by a few degrees.

As I said in another thread, the most important things for a PC case IMO is:

- cooling performance
- noise
- looks
- room/space
- cable management
- your features like front ports etc.

Which for all the above (apart from looks, only a handful of cases on the market now a days that I like :() can be found with pretty much any case that has decent stock cooling or good 3rd party fans, now a days for less than £150.

The only thing, which this case really offers over the others is exceptional build quality but at the end of the day, how often do we work on our PCs (maybe once every month or 2, if even that?), once you are done setting up your rig up or adding something, that is it, all you do is hit the switch on the case, plug a USB in the odd time and glance at it every now and again :p


Would love to know what components the new owners are putting in this case. Would laugh if it was just a standard mid-high end PC e.g. AMD x4 955/i5 2500k and like a single 6870/6959/580 or something similar :D
 
Ace Modder said:
I wish I made that level of profit on them. :)

The biggest raw cost increase for the UK is the shipping costs involved in getting pallet stock delivered to the UK. Have you ever obtained the cost to air frieght a pallet of goods from the Far East to the unit? $500-$600 a pallet. When you only get 8-10 cases to a pallet, thats around $50-$60 dollar cost increase per unit.

I will be frank, around 10% margin on these, thats margin not mark up by the way. 10% mark up is better than 10% margin. That 10% margin is on the Ex Vat price, so I will put it into raw numbers, around £28 profit, thats not a lot on a £340 product.

To be honest, I should not be saying what profit I make on an item, but I'm fed up of the people who complain about prices all the time. I wish I made the margins that MacDonalds make on their burgers. Then I would be rather happy :) But the IT components industry is so competitive it is unreal!

Also the product is a luxury item; so yes it has a hefty price to it; however if you don't want to spend that, then your life goes on; it is not a "must buy" item now.
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Nice to hear your honesty :)
 
Ace Modder said:
I wish I made that level of profit on them. :)

The biggest raw cost increase for the UK is the shipping costs involved in getting pallet stock delivered to the UK. Have you ever obtained the cost to air frieght a pallet of goods from the Far East to the unit? $500-$600 a pallet. When you only get 8-10 cases to a pallet, thats around $50-$60 dollar cost increase per unit.

I will be frank, around 10% margin on these, thats margin not mark up by the way. 10% mark up is better than 10% margin. That 10% margin is on the Ex Vat price, so I will put it into raw numbers, around £28 profit, thats not a lot on a £340 product.

To be honest, I should not be saying what profit I make on an item, but I'm fed up of the people who complain about prices all the time. I wish I made the margins that MacDonalds make on their burgers. Then I would be rather happy :) But the IT components industry is so competitive it is unreal!

Also the product is a luxury item; so yes it has a hefty price to it; however if you don't want to spend that, then your life goes on; it is not a "must buy" item now.
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I understand what you're saying but since you're $100 more expensive (or 28.5%) than US retailers (that also have their own profit margins included in the price), you either order tiny amounts of stock from your distributor that puts the price of this product through the roof or you price it too high because it's a luxury product.

Either way, I'm free to express my opinion on the product and its value is one of the crucial things for me. I'm not judging nor complaining.
 
If I had the money then I would possibly/probably buy this simply because it just looks amazing and looks as sexy as Kate Beckinsale does in a leather catsuit *insert homer drool here*. Though there are some nice cases by CaseLabs that I certainly like too but in terms of aesthetics alone then the Comos beats pretty much everything I have seen so far imho.

Thank you for your honesty Ace Modder :)

Stoner81.
 
Ace Modder said:
I wish I made that level of profit on them. :)

The biggest raw cost increase for the UK is the shipping costs involved in getting pallet stock delivered to the UK. Have you ever obtained the cost to air frieght a pallet of goods from the Far East to the unit? $500-$600 a pallet. When you only get 8-10 cases to a pallet, thats around $50-$60 dollar cost increase per unit.

I will be frank, around 10% margin on these, thats margin not mark up by the way. 10% mark up is better than 10% margin. That 10% margin is on the Ex Vat price, so I will put it into raw numbers, around £28 profit, thats not a lot on a £340 product.

To be honest, I should not be saying what profit I make on an item, but I'm fed up of the people who complain about prices all the time. I wish I made the margins that MacDonalds make on their burgers. Then I would be rather happy :) But the IT components industry is so competitive it is unreal!

Also the product is a luxury item; so yes it has a hefty price to it; however if you don't want to spend that, then your life goes on; it is not a "must buy" item now.
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But the yanks must also get these cases shipped on a pallet from the Far East and with the size of the USA I would imagine they will have far more logistics/costs getting them from A to B once they arrive than we have to deal with in the UK.:confused:
 
I wonder if the stock will last more than 12 hours this time, the last 10 I had only lasted 12 hrs!
 
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