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Originally Posted by unterhausen
You're smarter than me, I wasted about $4000 before I realized I didn't control enough of the process to feel confident about liability. I wasn't going to put my wife through the possibility of losing her assets for the chance of having a sub-minimum wage job with absolutely no security. If I had to compete with Curtlo, with those ridiculous prices, I wouldn't be making enough to be worth it anyway. Better financially to just work as a walmart greeter and build for fun. There were plenty of people 10 years ago signing up to sell a lugged frame/fork for $1200. Let's say you sell 10 frames a year, $250 of that goes to insurance. Fixed costs for parts easily approach $500, powder coat isn't free. It's pretty easy to get to a point where your hourly wage is less than a dollar.
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10 frames/year?
you're talking about hobby building i assume, not full time?
less than a frame a month would be a tragically low number for someone trying to earn a living selling bicycles, no?