08-08-2009, 03:11 AM
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Originally Posted by dyezak
Exactly, we aren't talking about Rays here. Volk has the entire Rays manufacturing facilities to help amoritize their costs. They do more than wheels (a lot more) and have the ability to spread the cost around a lot more. HRE, CCW, Fiske, etc, don't have that type of infrastructure to lean on. $2000 a wheel isn't bad when you start talking low volume true custom wheels. Call Fiske and ask them for the price of a set of their wheels for a 370z...I'll guess it'll be about $3500/wheel.
It's economy of scale and amoritization of costs across a larger customer base that allows Rays to sell Volks at such a low price.
All this is pretty basic and the specifics are lost to me because my last micro economics class in college was over 10y ago... But unlike armensti said in his last post in this thread, this is NOT a get quick rich plan:
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it would be a custom rim if i drew the rim on a piece of paper and they build it for me from scratch. their not doing anything special, a custom rim is a rim that is build specifacly for one person and its not mass produced. if i knew that no one else would have the same rim as me i would pay 2k a piece but this company is going to sell those rims to more then one person so to me its still a regular rim and the quality is not going to be any better then a volk rim, it might actually be less.
i dont know if its just me but for someone that has only 16 post your very interested in this thread. im guessing you work for the same company so what your really are doing is just trying to back him up or trying to make it look like it. i dont know why but im getting that feeling. no one with 16 post would spend their time writing an essay on why we should pay 2k per rim.
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