CRT's from India?

[benman94]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I actually think one could potentially turn a small profit on a run of 500+ 21" round color CRTs. ISTR later CRT sets costing around $300 to consumers...The CRT was only part of that cost so they might be a bit cheaper. Rebuilts cost around $300 IIRC. If one could get a new CRT for less than rebuilts went for I could see selling them in decent quantity...Especially seeing as many of us are running CRTs in more than one set that are between kinda-dim and unusable.

Set up is the killer on such a plan. There's an old adage, that the very first example of a product costs millions to build, when factoring in R&D, the cost of setting up a production line, etc

The second example to run off the line cost next to nothing. Obviously actual accounting practices don't create situations like this, but the point still stands. Even a run of say 500+ 21FBP22s would be prohibitively expensive initially. The cost of getting things set up. Actually building them would probably be rather cheap.