Whisky
Jet Boat Junkie
- Messages
- 305
- Reaction score
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- 137
- Location
- Regina Beach, SK
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2017
- Boat Model
- X
- Boat Length
- 21
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Yes but they are not paying those prices for the board and rope, they are making another 500 off you on those if not more. Something like this should not be such a profitable item for Yamaha, it should be a gift to its customers who spend their life saving on Yamaha boats.Yeah, I agree its a tough one...... for what it is it feels pricy, to help justify it to myself I sort of estimated
500-700 for the board 100 for the rope/floatie bumper, putting the enhancer itself around 700-900 bucks. Is it expensive, yeah, but for me its worth it.......assuming it works as I hope it will.
I also figure it probably isn't a true cash cow for Yamaha, in general by the time they factor in:
Manufacturing the enhancer
purchasing the board from slingshot
purchasing the rope
purchasing the other accessories
assembling the package
shipping to the dealer
import duties
currency challenges (Canadian dollar is about 0.74 US right now)
dealer markup
I can’t imagine they are getting rich off the enhancers themselves. That being said, if it works as advertised, it help to sell the boats so there is a benefit there also!
Could money be made if someone with a fab shop could make them up and sell them cheaper? Probably! There would no doubt be some folks here who are probably interested here, but without the marketing or distribution power, I’m not sure it would be commercially viable.
If someone had their own fab shop and time to spare though, I couldn’t blame them for at very leas making their own!