We need to boycott Supra tax

[Travelingsoldier]

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[Jakester]

Still better then the Porsche tax ?

 

[7sstreet]

Ecutek tax you mean ?

 

[Suggs.OR]

Ok. So don’t mod your Supra then. Supra tax avoided.

 

[MattPhantom]

You gotta pay more for those two extra cylinders ?

 

[zrk]

You gotta pay more for those two extra cylinders ?

I mean.. yeah.

 

[Thraxbert]

The Supra tax is, in fact, egregious. I have personal firsthand knowledge that certain popular mods in the 4-digit cost range can be manufactured, packaged, sold to users, and shipped to the customer at <30% of the going market rate. That includes a healthy profit remaining for the manufacturer and vendor both.

People can argue until they die about profit, income, margin dollars, blah blah. But the truth is that the prices for many popular Supra parts are approaching an order of magnitude price v. cost.

 

[zrk]

The Supra tax is, in fact, egregious. I have personal firsthand knowledge that certain popular mods in the 4-digit cost range can be manufactured, packaged, sold to users, and shipped to the customer at <30% of the going market rate. That includes a healthy profit remaining for the manufacturer and vendor both.

People can argue until they die about profit, income, margin dollars, blah blah. But the truth is that the prices for many popular Supra parts are approaching an order of magnitude price v. cost.

You mean the $1300 I paid for Visconti's wiring harness could be made at home for a fraction of that?

 

[dzeleski]

The Supra tax is, in fact, egregious. I have personal firsthand knowledge that certain popular mods in the 4-digit cost range can be manufactured, packaged, sold to users, and shipped to the customer at <30% of the going market rate. That includes a healthy profit remaining for the manufacturer and vendor both.

People can argue until they die about profit, income, margin dollars, blah blah. But the truth is that the prices for many popular Supra parts are approaching an order of magnitude price v. cost.

There were ~7k Supras sold last year. Many of them will keep the car bone stock or near stock. I’m sure there is some expensive car == higher prices because owner can afford it going on. But when you don’t have high volume in sales you raise the price to make it worth actually designing and producing the part.

There were 21,000 civics sold in December alone. 27,000 wrx’s last year. Way more owners to potentially mod a car and sell parts to.

If you compare top brands between multiple platforms it’s not THAT different. The ones that are clearly gouging the market I just ignore.

If you wanna see insane markups we can talk about airplanes… I just paid $43 dollars shipped for what is essentially a washer that is held in place by a 4-40 screw.

 

[NitroYellowMKV]

That is why I became a vendor for most of the parts I wanted, got them for great deals and then sell them mad cheap to other people to make it free for me basically, no overhead for me means I can make tiny profit margins and sell in volume.

 

[Thraxbert]

There were ~7k Supras sold last year. Many of them will keep the car bone stock or near stock. I’m sure there is some expensive car == higher prices because owner can afford it going on. But when you don’t have high volume in sales you raise the price to make it worth actually designing and producing the part.

There were 21,000 civics sold in December alone. 27,000 wrx’s last year. Way more owners to potentially mod a car and sell parts to.

If you compare top brands between multiple platforms it’s not THAT different. The ones that are clearly gouging the market I just ignore.

If you wanna see insane markups we can talk about airplanes… I just paid $43 dollars shipped for what is essentially a washer that is held in place by a 4-40 screw.

There have been 0 units sold of my other car in 6 years, and equivalent parts are 75% cheaper. Many times from the same ODM.

 

[Travelingsoldier]

There is no reason a license key is $300 more than a civic for the same platform.

 

[zrk]

There is no reason a license key is $300 more than a civic for the same platform.

Yeah! Fuck those R&D costs!

 

[hotsaucewizard]

There is no reason a license key is $300 more than a civic for the same platform.

I've got tunes for sale for $20 hmu*






*for offroad use only

 

[Zupra1776]

Just don't pay it. I've got a tunable 21, waiting on the cost of ECUtek and turning to drop before going that route.

ECU unlock, flex fuel, and ECUTek tune is like $3k alone...F that. Costs half as much on every platform. Happy enough with the stock performance to just ride it out.

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