by Scorpion0x17
cormor321 wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
cormor321 wrote:
I think whats going on is that you are using your own level of ability as a guide for what you think other people are capable of.
I think you are not reading, or deliberately misinterpreting, what I've written, because I'm not saying you, I, or anyone could not make something of the same quality, full stop.
I'm saying that I don't believe you, I, or anyone (without access to industry level equipment) could make a one off custom built copy of the same quality for the same money or less.
And I'm trying to say as clearly as I can that you are wrong.
I see no evidence of that. Firstly, what you have described I would not consider to be of equal quality. Secondly, you are completely discounting many of the material costs because they are things you happen to have to hand. Thirdly, you claim the stands are standard items, but perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms, but I can not find them for sale anywhere.
cormor321 wrote:
Maybe you're thinking that I'm claiming that I could make it for less than their manufacturing cost?
No, just the cost for you or I to make a complete copy of equal quality.
cormor321 wrote:
Or maybe you're counting the time I'd put into it as some sort of monetary cost?
Nope.
cormor321 wrote:
It's even possible that the cost of everything over there is so far above what I pay for stuff here that neither of us can comprehend what the other is saying.
That is very possible, and which case, as the OP is in the UK the relevant question is how much it would cost for someone in the UK to make a copy of equal quality.