DJMixtrix said:Currently mine are not sold on my website, AtlantaHobby, our distributor carries them as well as other dealers that could meet the dealer requirements like Red Rocket Hobbies and others.
I have to tell you that I went to the Atlanta Hobby website tonight to buy those quick disconnects. I have bought $3000 worth of equipment from that site, including two Phantoms and two gimbals, and FPV equipment etc - but I just could not bring myself to pull the trigger for $35 and then an additional $9 for UPS ground.
The reason I am here tonight is because I posted on Reddit asking if anyone knew of another source for something like this, and I was directed here. I am not happy paying $25 for those stupid pieces of plastic, but I will because I need them. What you didn't grasp was that when you inflated your pricing so high, YOU created another market - I am certain your product is better made and probably better looking, but honestly all I want is to take the guards on and off, and his product will do that. If you had priced your product at $14.99, I would have been all over it - and the freight - how about $3.00 for the post office - anywhere in America? So get ready, because someone else is going to be selling these things for $5.99, once the demand is there.
I encourage you to study the concept of diminishing returns. Yes some people will pay the inflated prices, but most won't - (it is just 4 pieces of plastic after all) - but if your price was reasonable, you would have sold many more, you would have discouraged those who are knocking off your design, and many people who were ambivalent about the whole thing would probably just go ahead and buy them because they were a good price. All you have done is create resentment, and another market for your design - your patent is pending, remember, and how will you enforce your patent when some slick engineer in China makes a design change and sells them on Ali Baba for $6.00? Good luck enforcing your patent over there.
Regards
Tolipa