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Re: Fair Replica Orbit Ball Price? - Poll

Having seen how long it takes to make these balls ....
If the materials cost $10 for each one...
$20 is a more than fair price.

I would start there... that's only $10 for the time.
I think you have at least a man-hour in each ball...unless you can do it alot faster than I have seen....and don't forget the cost of cutting all the materials etc...

$20 is very fair.

If someone doesn't WANT to pay for one of these at that price.. I think they should just build them themselves....

As far as not "wanting" to pay more than the market price...
No one has established a market price for these....the other orbit balls are no longer available and you cannot compare that price for a non-existent product with this product...

If I were you guys I would take orders and see what the market bears for prices....

I bought a package of three from Logoloc
With shipping and their "extra" markup I paid over $14 per ball...
Those were ALL gone in half a day...

Reward your efforts...
There is market and a demand.... use it
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