Re: Community Focus Knob - Group Development / Group Buy - Take two
Sounds good.
So the cost as quoted by the software was basically about $600 after shipping and everything, to get a batch of 200 to my door.
That WASN'T with knurling, which isn't actually supported by the software, and is instead a "comment" you have to include for the machinist. That said, adding buffing almost doubled the cost to $1000 +, so I wouldn't be surprised if knurling carries a similarly high costs. I would be inclined to leave it off - to basically order through the software properly, without any additional fancy stuff that you need to request through comments. Simplicity.
We'd basically need to figure out the cost of shipping these things out to people. If we're doing a run of 200, then I'm ok shipping 20 packages, which suggests that everyone needs to order in increments of 10x. Presuming about $3 each, that's $30 plus the cost of shipping to each person. It's hard to figure that stuff out ahead of time, but it seems to cost me at least $10 to ship anything from Canada.
So I think $40 for 10x focus knobs would basically cover it.
But as mentioned, someone else would need to do the organization right now