If you are going to be a one man band with a deal like that you’ll lose your *** right quick. You will be doing everything including shipping and answering phones. You won’t be able to price the stuff high enough for the volume of product you can produce to make it worth while.
It’s one thing if it’s a hobby, but from the looks of the number of moles it’s not a hobby business. If you run it like a hobby business it will surely fail.
And the tire kickers have already chimed in. Price it so it’s “affordable”. And that’s the problem bringing most anything to market in this hobby. They have no clue how long it takes to produce the product, the cost of materials to make the thing, lights and other overheads and then boxing the part up well enough so the block headed morons in the trucking industry don’t kill the part getting it to the customer.
And, if it doesn’t come out of the box ready for paint the bitching will commence pronto. Most guys have never worked with fiberglass, so they haven’t a clue how much labor it takes to get that stuff straight enough to even remotely look like steel panels.
And if you do make them even fairly close, you shoot your price point right in the ***.
I’m not saying don’t do it. I’m saying spend a bunch of time looking at what it really takes to make a fiberglass hood (as one example) from the raw materials to the finished product and then add in shipping costs. Shipping is a killer on stuff like that.
And don’t forget the budget some time for every sale you actually make. And for every sale you do make, expect to budget time for the 50 tire kickers who will call and blow your ear off and never buy anything. And budget some phone time to deal with all the issues that come with selling someone something.
You can go broke very quickly doing a onesie, twosie deal when you add up all the time it takes. Or you actually take money out of your pocket to build and sell parts.
Just my opinion. Tread carefully.
