[V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight than Gold

[Korn, Bob]

Welcome to the world of manufacturing, actual cost of a product has
little to do with end user price.   

Bob Korn
Sales Operations Manager
Pressure Relief, Explosion Venting
Fike Corporation
704 S. 10th St
Blue Springs, MO  64013
bob.korn at fike.com
Phone: 877-342-3453
Fax: 816-228-9277
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:40 AM
To: V8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight
than Gold

Welcome to the world of supply and demand!

Mcdonalds does it everyday. Make a hamburger for 15 cents and sell it
for 2.99!
I'm not sure what the beef is. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Ingo Rautenberg <i.rautenberg at waratap.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:26 am
Subject: Re: [V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight
than Gold

> Hmm, which part # is this you're referring to?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeremy Ward" <jward at mti-interactive.com>
> To: <daves745t at optonline.net>; <V8 at audifans.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by 
> Weight than
> Gold
> 
> 
> Just keep telling yourself the cost of *not* having that $30 part 
> is over
> $1k.  Just ask a couple of the guys here whose mechanics left out 
> this small
> part and toasted their 'brand new' timing belts (and valves, and...)
> 
> :-)
> 
> - Jeremy
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com <v8-bounces at audifans.com>
> To: Audifans V8 <V8 at audifans.com>
> Sent: Wed Jan 26 06:49:01 2005
> Subject: [V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight 
> than Gold
> 
> So I had to special order a friction pad and picked it up at a local
> dealership. When the guy came out with it my immediate reaction 
> was, "Hang
> on a sec', I think you ordered the wrong part."  He was holding a 
> ziplockbag with a black, round piece of plastic literally smaller 
> than a dime that
> was a little over a quarter of an inch long with a hole in the 
> middle and
> two sides squared off.  The bag was marked with the part number 
> but I still
> wasn't convinced. So I had him look it up again and show me the 
> part on the
> ETK before I agreed that it was in fact a friction pad and forked 
> over my
> money.  If I had a scale that could weigh it, I guarantee by 
> weight it would
> be one of the most valuable objects on earth.
> 
> I walked back to my car and just stared at it, then I went home 
> and actually
> took a pic or two of it, saying to myself that this could not cost 
> more than
> a nickel to make.  If you've never seen one, I don't know whether you
> should - it is better to think that it is some sizable, 
> substantial piece of
> super-material built to withstand the hellish environment of an 
> engine.Unbelievable - I just had to vent and this seemed like the 
> best place.
> 
> DaveM
> 
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