(09-13-2023, 05:45 PM)Blackland Razors Wrote: (09-13-2023, 05:34 PM)Radio Wrote: Hi Shane, the price difference between the Titanium Blackbird and the stainless steel version is $ 120. Is that also about the amount that awaits us at the Osprey?
I won't speculate on price because we don't really know our costs yet. In general, I think it's wise to look at material price gaps on a relative basis instead of a fixed one. That's a better way to guess where pricing might fall.
Looking at the BB SS vs Ti comparison it shows a 60% increase for the Ti metal over SS. Waving my hands with a fairly simplistic and naive approach that the relative material inputs, machining cost, and margin deltas will be equivalent, that would suggest the Osprey in Ti at $560 (from a base of 350 in SS). But given the Osprey price point I have to imagine fewer copies will be produced and therefore whatever fixed costs there might be for the Ti version will have to be spread over a smaller volume, along with potentially allocating some of the presumed R&D cost recovery in there as well. So I could see that number going higher, although Blackland might trade off unit margin for volume, depending on price sensitivity/price elasticity. And that trade off could cap or reduce the relative increase for the Ti variant.
