Bands and "Cost"

[Craig Mac]

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[dpricenator]

360 sticks a hour your a little off. 4320 is more then a whole days production in MF Nica.
Each team does a couple hundred. Banding at 10sec i think is a little much as well.

I agree that is an agressive number. But I have cut that production # by 75% and the math still doesn't add up to .50c

and by no means is any one calling anyone a liar. I believe you all heard them say it would be a .50c difference in cost to the consumer. I just don't see it costing more than .10-.15 per stick to get the band on the cigar. If we are saying .50c difference in a stick because it is unbanded and in a bundle opposed to a box, then I totally understand. But the band by itself couldn't cost .50c per stick. The original question was, how much does it cost them to print and apply the band?


I can't see the link Rob put up, while I am at work, what is the difference in those bundles to the boxed version?

 

[AnthonyP]

In the case of Gurkah....about 10$ per stick for the band. $5 for the cigar.

Hah! Priceless. :hysterica

 

[Danilo]

I agree that is an agressive number. But I have cut that production # by 75% and the math still doesn't add up to .50c

and by no means is any one calling anyone a liar. I believe you all heard them say it would be a .50c difference in cost to the consumer. I just don't see it costing more than .10-.15 per stick to get the band on the cigar. If we are saying .50c difference in a stick because it is unbanded and in a bundle opposed to a box, then I totally understand. But the band by itself couldn't cost .50c per stick. The original question was, how much does it cost them to print and apply the band?


I can't see the link Rob put up, while I am at work, what is the difference in those bundles to the boxed version?

I agree with you that the production cost can't be near 50c either, and I agree with you in the 10-15c range... 20c tops...

 

[tmoney2007]

You guys are forgetting, a 50 cent difference in MSRP means a 25 cent difference wholesale (give or take) and depending on the profit margins (they aren't a charity) their actual cost could be closer to 15-20 cents.

Oh and the guy talking about ghurka forgot about the boxes.

 

[Danilo]

Oh and the guy talking about ghurka forgot about the boxes.

:rofl:

Nothing like a 2 dollar cigar in a 90 dollar box!!

 

[Craig Mac]

You guys are forgetting, a 50 cent difference in MSRP means a 25 cent difference wholesale (give or take) and depending on the profit margins (they aren't a charity) their actual cost could be closer to 15-20 cents.

No one is forgetting that, if you read through the thread you will see the reference to "consumer cost" at least once or twice.

 

[tmoney2007]

No one is forgetting that, if you read through the thread you will see the reference to "consumer cost" at least once or twice.

I got confused with the people referring to the consumer cost versus "their cost". I assumed that some others may have been as slow as me. I may have been mistaken haha