Taff
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Anyone know the wholesale source for the .50 cal machine gun kits. I am looking to buy 500+ kits and would like a better price than PSI, etc. I have tried Dayacom and Rizheng, but cannot find the source.
This is where I get mine from.Anyone know the wholesale source for the .50 cal machine gun kits. I am looking to buy 500+ kits and would like a better price than PSI, etc. I have tried Dayacom and Rizheng, but cannot find the source.
Anyone know the wholesale source for the .50 cal machine gun kits. I am looking to buy 500+ kits and would like a better price than PSI, etc. I have tried Dayacom and Rizheng, but cannot find the source.
Anyone know the wholesale source for the .50 cal machine gun kits. I am looking to buy 500+ kits and would like a better price than PSI, etc. I have tried Dayacom and Rizheng, but cannot find the source.
Anyone know the wholesale source for the .50 cal machine gun kits. I am looking to buy 500+ kits and would like a better price than PSI, etc. I have tried Dayacom and Rizheng, but cannot find the source.
Consider this: You KNOW Dayacom makes the junior gent, and many other pens for CSUSA. Yet, if you contact Dayacom they will not sell those to you, they will sell only the ones that CSUSA is not buying.
WHY? Because your 500 order could tick off CSUSA who may then STOP ordering from Dayacom. How many thousands do you think CSUSA buys??
Any manufacturer who "sellls around" Penn State or CSUSA or Berea risks losing BIG bucks. Your 500 units is a very small drop in a very large ocean.
What difference does the purchase price make?? You buy them, add a fee for your service and arrive at a selling price. Then, your customer can say ok or no. If you get to the point of negotiating, the customer has won. Saving a buck on 500 units is no big deal to a larger corporation. But "strong negotiating power" may get a buyer a promotion---your deal is just one and your skill is unique. YOU set the price.
After that it is selling your skill---NOT the price of the pieces.
Retail is 6.95
100 is 5.60
Assume their cost may be $3. So they are making 2.60 per unit.
What are you making? I would hope at least $26.00
So, you are positioned to give up $10 for every dollar that PSI gives up--that way you will both feel the same degree of "percentage pinch".
Had PSI not designed and gotten the kit built, you would not have the opportunity to sell any. Why try to cut them out of their meager profit?
On the other hand, you could find a manufacturer that will build them for you, a Chinese source comes to mind. Then, you have to buy a couple thousand and they may, or may not work---but you COULD save $1000!!! on your 500 order (and lose your reputation)
The company who is making them for PSI is selling PSI several hundred a week, they are not going to sell to you direct. Anyone who will sell to you direct is experimenting when they make the pen. After dealing with a couple manufacturers, I can tell you they will NEVER say, "we can't do this". However, their actions will show they can't, yet you pay in full and get delivery of poor product. The cost of your pen kit from the majors includes the insurance that you will get the support of PSI, or CSUSA or Berea. There is a very real benefit there, that is worth far more than a buck a kit.
I readily admit this is MY opinion, you are encouraged to have your own. But I have earned and maintained a sterling reputation because I value getting it right more than getting it cheap. Tell your customer you share those values, so you are doing him a service by getting the best product available from the most reputable source you can. HIS reputation is also on the line---if the pens break he COULD lose his job. What is that risk worth?
FWIW,
Ed