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WTH is with these scope prices??
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<blockquote data-quote="rcdinaz" data-source="post: 615577" data-attributes="member: 31581"><p>Sidecar has some good info on cars and the analogy being made. I have to respectfully completely disagree with a lot of the other comments about cars and other big ticket high tech manufacturing items not being worth what they cost. Just a few things to consider:</p><p></p><p>Your car literally has miles of wire in it alone, checked the price of copper lately? BMW had a bunch of articles about what it is taking them to change from copper wiring to aluminum. It was a huge project to undertake but copper is so expensive they were developing an alternative. </p><p></p><p>Even an econo box has $1K's worth of electronics alone, ignition, lighting, dash board, environmental controls, emissions, on and on. Your dads 1960 whatever was a metal box that was completely mechanical. Let's face it your radio alone has more computing power than anything built in the 60's for that matter the lighting controls have to dim, blink, etc do. I would love to have a classic car but face it they ride like a crap and have zero creature comforts. </p><p></p><p>Other items, suspension, hydraulics, GPS, door locks, etc cost crazy amounts to manufacture. </p><p></p><p>One more point any manufactured item can be done cheaply when volume is realized. What everyone forgets is that tooling, test equipment, and people that know how to use it are extremely expensive. When you get into precision instruments, semiconductors, tooling, etc one machine for one stage of production can cost $100k's to $1M's all to produce a $0.25 part. Even scopes for the cost of the R&D that goes into the glass work alone is pretty phenomenal. I think scope prices are pretty much in line with where they have always been which is equal to or slightly more than the price of a quality rifle. The advice of paying more for optics than your rifle has been around for a long time and there are a lot of people paying $2K-$4k for rifle these days. </p><p></p><p>So relative to the past things are pretty cheap today just look at the size of a freaking WalMart and the crowd that walks out of there with a shopping cart full of stuff. </p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong in all of this I don't enjoy paying a bunch of dough for anything but I really like my rifles and scopes!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rcdinaz, post: 615577, member: 31581"] Sidecar has some good info on cars and the analogy being made. I have to respectfully completely disagree with a lot of the other comments about cars and other big ticket high tech manufacturing items not being worth what they cost. Just a few things to consider: Your car literally has miles of wire in it alone, checked the price of copper lately? BMW had a bunch of articles about what it is taking them to change from copper wiring to aluminum. It was a huge project to undertake but copper is so expensive they were developing an alternative. Even an econo box has $1K's worth of electronics alone, ignition, lighting, dash board, environmental controls, emissions, on and on. Your dads 1960 whatever was a metal box that was completely mechanical. Let's face it your radio alone has more computing power than anything built in the 60's for that matter the lighting controls have to dim, blink, etc do. I would love to have a classic car but face it they ride like a crap and have zero creature comforts. Other items, suspension, hydraulics, GPS, door locks, etc cost crazy amounts to manufacture. One more point any manufactured item can be done cheaply when volume is realized. What everyone forgets is that tooling, test equipment, and people that know how to use it are extremely expensive. When you get into precision instruments, semiconductors, tooling, etc one machine for one stage of production can cost $100k's to $1M's all to produce a $0.25 part. Even scopes for the cost of the R&D that goes into the glass work alone is pretty phenomenal. I think scope prices are pretty much in line with where they have always been which is equal to or slightly more than the price of a quality rifle. The advice of paying more for optics than your rifle has been around for a long time and there are a lot of people paying $2K-$4k for rifle these days. So relative to the past things are pretty cheap today just look at the size of a freaking WalMart and the crowd that walks out of there with a shopping cart full of stuff. Don't get me wrong in all of this I don't enjoy paying a bunch of dough for anything but I really like my rifles and scopes! [/QUOTE]
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