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Here’s an even better deal, 38.50 per unit with a 500 unit minimum. Think we can get a Rokslide bulk order list?
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I’m in product management for a medium sized tech company. In order to maintain profit margins we take our landed cost of goods and set the list price at 3 times our landed cost. We sell to a dealer network at discount and they sell to consumer at our MSRP.Lol, 65 dollars per unit and they’re still making money at that price
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"Designed in America, sold to China to build, bought and assembled in Lehi Utah "Plot twist, they actually make that frame for the Chinese to sell
I’m in product management for a medium sized tech company. In order to maintain profit margins we take our landed cost of goods and set the list price at 3 times our landed cost. We sell to a dealer network at discount and they sell to consumer at our MSRP.
So they are probably somewhere in that 3 times the cost neighborhood.
So you’re telling me that AKEK designed this product in the US, shipped production over seas, to resell the product to themselves for 3 times the price of what this distribution company is charging on Alibaba? To then sell the 115 dollar pack for 575 in the us?
Or they just bought some cheap Chinese made frame and bag they didn’t design and are pawning it off as “arguably the best new pack around.”
Either way, there’s a whole lot of pissing down backs and calling it rain going on around here.
What was it that was missing? Specifically, without the empty marketing lingo, what is the void you’ve filled? Thanks!As a group of hunters ourselves, many packs we used left us feeling like something was missing. We wanted a pack that fulfilled this void we felt, So we created the Alpha 3200.
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I'm not so anti-China as I am anti- bullshit me you design and develop a pack and market it as close to American/support American family yet alibaba did it all.Before I light my torch and pull the pitch fork out of the shed are we upset because the pack is made in China or are we upset that it is a pack made in China and laying claim to be the best new pack? In all seriousness is it possible that Akek designed the pack and frame as they claim and the factory that is manufacturing them to their specifications is making extras that Akek didn't purchase and selling them on their own. One last thing, do 4 other dudes want to buy one and we can split shipping. Shipping is 65 bucks for 5 units so for about 100 bucks a guy might have a hell of a pack.
For sure. Hopefully they get back on here with a response. They wouldn't be the first company to get called out on rokslide. It has happened to a few others and they were willing to come on and respond. That's what is nice about rokslide. Usually guys get in here and defend their products.I'm not so anti-China as I am anti- bullshit me you design and develop a pack and market it as close to American/support American family yet alibaba did it all.
In this case, I'd rather buy it off alibaba knowing I'm getting Chinese stuff, than this line of bs
Less they have some novel reason it's a coincidence.