Overheard at the tf2 character statuette meeting:
"What should we charge for these figures?"
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"I dunno, $100? Who's our target audience?"
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"Teenagers?"
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<laughing> "You kidding? They're only a fraction of our playerbase"
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"It's mostly folks in their 20's or 30's with loads of disposable income, Frank - you crunched the numbers on the production costs, what are your thoughts?"
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"<ahem> If we factor in paying the sculptor for the master sculpt. Then the molding process ... the cost of plastics and parts production from the negative molds ... and assembly ... "
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"We can save some money getting the chinese to make it."
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"Well yeah - they make everything, that's a given these days"
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"... this is quite a limited run, so it's going to cost us more than $100.00 per unit in production overhead"
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"ok, so $150 per unit?"
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"We want to make more of these right? Like one for each class?"
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"Of course!"
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"Well, we should think about this first one helping to pay for the production of the second one shouldn't we?"
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"yeah"
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"ok, so $200?"
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"then we gotta pay for the shipping on all these figures"
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"$250?"
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"sounds good."
