Thread: Update on the Orbit Balls
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Unread 05-01-2009, 16:27
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Re: Update on the Orbit Balls
Knowing the way Wal-Mart squeezes the lowest possible prices out of its suppliers, I wonder how much cheaper FIRST will be able to offer them to teams for, and how many they will be able to get their hands on. I doubt Blip has 1000s of extra of these laying around in a warehouse already (beyond what Wal-Mart already has), but you never know. Since they say "MADE IN CHINA" all over them, if they have to make new ones, even if they ramped up production now to produce a few thousand extras for FIRST demand, it'll take them a while to get here from Asia...

Also, if Wal-Mart really does have almost 30,000, that's still only a dozen or so for each team (assuming that it would even be possible to buy out their whole inventory, which is difficult to imagine).