Custom Made 48 Channel Enclosure on eBay

[jimswinder]

2 Controllers in Custom Made enclousre

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320548696258&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

[Paul Roberson]

Ad says... 3 controllers and an easy light linker in a custom enclosure.

[Max-Paul]

I wonder how well that ELL is going to work with the antenna inside of a metal box?

[Ed P]

I do not see any thing to accomodate the electric cords running out to the display elements. No sockets or pigtails. No hole in the box?

[jimswinder]

Paul Roberson wrote:

Ad says... 3 controllers and an easy light linker in a custom enclosure.

Yeah...I never was any good at math.

I just gave a quick look at the first picture and just saw the two controllers...

[George Simmons]

Max-Paul wrote:

I wonder how well that ELL is going to work with the antenna inside of a metal box?

I wonder how well that ELL is going to work without a mate?

[kzaas]

George Simmons wrote:

Max-Paul wrote:

I wonder how well that ELL is going to work with the antenna inside of a metal box?

I wonder how well that ELL is going to work without a mate?

Ad does say he will sell you the ELL pair for a discounted price and the box is made of ABS plastic.

[Tim Fischer]

When I first saw this yesterday I thought these were CTB16D's. But they're CTB16PCs... You can buy those new, at full price, for $142 (assembled with high-power heat sinks). A single ELL is $150 at full price.

So that means $576 of LOR products (at the maximum possible price) are being sold for $750. Is that really a $174 enclosure??

Not meant to offend the seller if they're a member here (hey if you can get those prices, more power to ya! )

(ETA: I originally posted this when I screwed up my math and thought the enclosure was $316. Still $174 seems a bit high...)

[iresq]

I don't think his profit margin is that bad. Would I pay? No. But the other question is how much would I want to make if this was a product I developed and was trying to sell?

He probably has more than 10 hours into building this. That's not a great $/hr ROI. Now if he sells a few, efficiencies go up as does $/hr.

[jimswinder]

Tim Fischer wrote:

So that means $576 of LOR products (at the maximum possible price) are being sold for $750. Is that really a $174 enclosure??

Actually he will sell just the enclosure for $80.


and "profit" is not a dirty word...

[Tim Fischer]

jimswinder wrote:

Tim Fischer wrote:

So that means $576 of LOR products (at the maximum possible price) are being sold for $750. Is that really a $174 enclosure??

Actually he will sell just the enclosure for $80.

So then the Cat-5 cables are worth $94?

Again, I wouldn't have even posted my comment if i hadn't screwed up my math and thought the enclosure was $300+. I went back and edited my math to correct the numbers but it was a little late to retract my whole statement by that point . I still think it's overpriced (plus I don't personally like having that many channels in one place). But it's not quite as overpriced as I had originally thought.

[jimswinder]

Tim Fischer wrote:

I still think it's overpriced (plus I don't personally like having that many channels in one place). But it's not quite as overpriced as I had originally thought.

I agree with you that it is overpriced...but I think you and I (and probaly most associated with LOR) like to do things ourselves. For someone who doesn't have the time or expertise to do something like that, they may see it as a bargain.

As for not having that many channels in one place, in my display I will have the need to have 192 channels under my Weber Tree!! (and no, they aren't ALL for the tree). :shock: