Edelbrock Air-Gap intake reviews???
When dealing with supply and demand economics, your looking at the market as a whole...not just a single reseller.
But that's just it, professor: I'm not dealing with supply and demand economics or the Chinese intake market as a whole, I'm dealing with
specific resellers and their
motivation for
specific claims about the value of the Pro Products intake vs. the Edelbrock RPM Air Gap.
Bluntly: I was attempting to illustrate that the specific motives for these vendors' specific statements might be based on profit motive, rather than their stated desire to make someone more horsepower for less money.
Read the thread please.
In the interest of diplomacy, I'll agree that your initial statement
Cheap is the low margin stuff. Expensive is the high margin stuff.
is generally correct when dealing with supply and demand economics in general,
if you're willing to allow that one can use the words margin and markup and profit interchangeably. (However, in the specific profit Summit vs. Ebay retailer numbers you posted above, the cheaper Crosswind would be the higher
margin item at 11.5% than the Edelbrock at only 10.5%, but I don't want to be pedantic- I know you meant gross profit.)
BMWs are higher
profit products per unit than Kias. Better?
However, whether you meant to say markup or margin or profit, your statement is completely wrong when discussing the
actual case I was talking about, never mind the motivation.
The resellers I was speaking of do not sell for the rock bottom Ebay/Internet whored out price. They make more markup and more margin and more profit selling the lower cost, cheaper intake for around $200-$220.
I'm sure we could have a (not) really interesting discussion about perfect knowledge of markets and price elasticities vs. profit/unit volume curves till the cows come home -
--but I don't really want to. So lets put our economics-weiners and tape measures away and say we were just talking past one another. Deal?
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Sorry Adam, will seek therapy about why I felt the need to respond to this (must be too hot to work on the car so I blather on the Internet). In the future my responses to threads about the Air Gap/Crosswind will be limited to:
"The search button is your friend - this has been beaten to death."
