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Originally Posted by stevep
huge assumption, no?
serotta is long established with a group of top notch long time staff members who are well paid by industry standards.
how does that compare to parlee?
i dont know calfees operation.
the frame is not the tubing. raw materials are a relatively small part of the cost of a top notch frame.
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Totally correct in every respect. My point was mostly about the cost of domestically produced tubing. Once that's off the table, there is a chance that Serotta's employees are either great in number vs. how many frames are produced compared with others, or so well paid as to overcome the greater level of cost spreading via a fairly large production level. Neither is required for "domestic production," but we could explain price point by those and perhaps many other factors.