by Scorpion0x17
cormor321 wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Two points:
That doesn't sound "on a par" to me.
Everything is really cheap if you ignore the majority of the cost of the materials used to make it!
Maybe if you did all that it wouldn't look very nice or be on par with professional work. I'm sorry if that's the case. I guess if someone can't craft very well you're right, nothing they make will look very good.
So what did I miss? The $5 ink cartridge that would print this plus a 200-300 more pages? The free foam core that you can get stacks of for free? Or that I'm in the US and you may have to pay considerably more than I do for any of these material?
Yeah, ink over here doesn't cost $5. And I'm not aware of anywhere where you can get "stacks of" foam core for free.
And, as the OP is in the UK, iirc, that is kind of relevant to this discussion.
But, you missed numerous things - you put cost valuations on a couple of things and implied that everything else was stuff you had to hand already - that stuff must have been paid for by someone at some point.