Re: bump
malcolm123 said:
Yeah Harvey,
I have the Y Radio Shack extension, but now I need about 4 straight throughs. Not at 8 bucks a piece thought, but if you cant come up with anything within the next week or so, I will be force to go the Shack route.
Harvey, find yourself a good young apprentice and teach him how to make cables using your skills. Im sure you don't have enough time to do it.
Thanks
Malcolm
Unfortunately, that's not very cost effective. By the time you add in the cost of the wire, the plugs, the hand soldering, and some kind of strain relief, the price goes thru the roof, even in quantity.
The trick is gonna be finding a company that already makes cheapy cables, and buying in enough quantity to get a decent discount (which means a sizable cash outlay by me, since I'd better be talking about buying hundreds of cables per order to get a decent discount).
$8 is about as low as I've seen for a straight (not coiled) 20 to 25 foot stereo headphone cable, and the price quickly goes up from there, to $20 and $40 for the name brand cables (Hosa, Grado, Monster, Cable Up, Labtron, Maxell, etc.). It's insane.
Right now, I have a lead on two possible distributors that import inexpensive headphone extension cables. I'll let you know more as soon as I hear anything.
See, this is the problem that many small manufacturers and sellers face each day. For those of you who've never dealt with these problems, lemme explain further. Take the MoreMe headphones, for example. So far, I've sold about 100 sets. That brought in some profit, which I used to buy more of the headphones.
So right now, I have a living room full of unsold cases of headphones, waiting for more orders. Eventually, they'll all get sold, but until then, any profit I make is tied up in those phones. Any profits I DO get in will be used to buy inexpensive headphone extension cables (IF I can find some cheap enough to sell).
I'm also storing a lot of shipping boxes, sealing tape, printing an instruction sheet (paper and ink cartridge costs), and the time, gas, and shipping expenses to get stuff to the nearest post office, about a 15 mile round trip. I also ship without waiting for checks to clear, or paypal transfers, so most of the time, the operating money is coming out of my pocket directly.
It's all a gamble. It's exactly the same gamble Alan Hyatt takes, except for the scale. The difference is that his gamble is far bigger. And he needs to set up a dealer structure to make it work. I can't have dealers - I hafta sell these direct to make a profit, until I can buy these phones direct from the manufacturer in huge quantities (at least 500 to 1,000 sets at a time).
I bought several hundred sets of headphones. Only time will tell if they all get sold, or I wind up with a lifetime supply of headphones for the studio.
