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Originally Posted by Frost
Look, profit is involved and everyone has to understand money has to be made to keep the people designing and making this stuff in business. They need to recoup their design costs and it's their right to put whatever price they want and charge for whatever they want.
The only thing we can do as consumers, is to vote with our hard earned dollars. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
That being said, I think there is a lot more to the catch can than what you think it is. I agree, it isn't as much black magic as most people make it out to be but I really appreciate the fine work Radium has done on the machining and overall fit and finish of their product.
I've seen the Cusco catch can in person - while I haven't had the chance to rip one apart, it feels like shit. It feels like someone skimped, rushed a product to market and is making a fortune on that. While I haven't held a Radium unit, from the photos, it has seals by means of o-rings, looks like it has heft (from Dezoris' video) and just looks solid.
I work in machining and manufacturing for items MUCH heavier duty and I appreciate the detailed efforts from Radium. Is it expensive? Yes - but I value the work I paid for more so than others.
Am I sucker for buying it? Maybe in the view of the others, yes but not me.
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The point I was trying to illustrate is that clearly there are plenty of well designed products on the market sold by middlemen at a discount from "msrp" with free shipping where both the manufacturer and vendor make enough profit to stay in business. Use rasceng products on ft86speedfactory for example.
It's a great can I'm sure. But to be sitting basically at the top of the price structure of the market (assuming dual cans) and to be charging for shipping at 100% msrp.
A net $450 is a pretty goddamn good chunk of money for 2 cans, fittings, brackets and hose. The cans weren't designed to be sold on just this car the majority of development cost is spread far wider than just this platform.