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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
I would love to know where you guys get your math! The real cost of the KOP? Probably around $10,000 by the estimates that I've heard. The software alone is around $2,000. Perhaps we need to take one more look at what is in the kit and its market values before we give what we might value the kit at
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Beth,
I pulled the $17,000 from here:
http://www.usfirst.org/about/2006/FR...nce_2006_3.pdf
Kit Facts
Retail value: $17,000
56 suppliers
350 parts per kit
70% of parts are donated
It may or may not be accurate but it is apparently what FIRST believes so I will just have to go with what they tell us. I don't know for sure but I believe the number I have heard for the value of the software is closer to $10,000 alone.
In any case, I figure we pay about $2,000 for the KoP and it just doesn't make sense to me to try to compete without it since at least $2,000 worth of stuff in the KoP is required to compete.
Just my $.02