Hi Damon
Thanks for your advice. I had absolutely no idea of the market size.
Since I live in Australia with population 1/15 of USA (I assume you are
located in USA and most orders were local) then there won't be much hope
selling 1000 ft of the stuff.
I was going to offer sell some of the equipment to apply it using low
cost wet lamination method. I guess people need to know its not
necessarily difficult nor expensive to apply. A kind of photoresist
'kit' so its minimum fuss and opens up available market. But by what
your describing, I'd still be hard pressed selling my first roll.
I.m wondering how can you sell US$25 to international customers when
that almost the cost of shipping ?
ThinkTink sell it
$1.7/ft (50 ft roll)
$1.02/ft (100 ft roll)
$0.65/ft (500 ft roll)
$0.60/ft (2x500 ft rolls)
IMHO that's a tad pricey for most hobbyists.
javaguy11111 wrote:
> Been there and doing that right now.
>
> Since I tried this I have had a total of 26 orders since my first
> order on January 26. The first 100 foot roll went pretty quick so I
> thought why not buy the 500 foot roll and add some soldermask as well.
>
> Out of 600 feet of resist and 80 feet of soldermask initially
> purchased, I have sold about 120 feet of resist and 23 feet of
> soldermask. At the current rate I will be very lucky if I even make
> back the original cost before the end of the year which is my cutoff
> for the age of the material.
>
> So there are people who will buy it and be very appreciative to get it
> in small quantities, but it seems to be a very very small market. So
> unless you are a much better marketer than me, selling 1000 feet of
> resist to hobbyist IMHO is very optimistic.
>
> You will probably also want to compare your price to what a place like
> Think Tink is offering to make sure you are offering a reasonable
> price for the quantity.
>
> Obviously there is some conflict of interest since I am selling
> photoresist as well, so it may sound like I am trying to discourage
> you. All I am trying to do is let you know what my personal experience
> has been so far. I wish you the best of luck if you decide the press
> on with your idea. As I said, you may be a better salesman than me.
>
>
> Damon Brantley
> www.pcbhobbyist.com
>
>
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Adam Seychell <a_seychell@...>
> wrote:
>> I was thinking of buying a box of photoresist for myself, but won't
> have
>> much need for two 500 foot x 12" wide roles. So I'm curious if there
>> would be a market to sell it in small quantities , say 2 to 20 meter
>> lengths. I'm located in Australia and I'd charge for my time
> repackaging.
>
>
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