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10-09-2020, 10:14 AM | #21 | |
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10-09-2020, 12:34 PM | #22 |
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So I went to the Cartouche website to see just what the material sold for today.
In 1980 it was $14.00 per yard...Today, that same material is $44.95 per yard. KATY Got it right! Pluck |
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10-09-2020, 04:40 PM | #23 |
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10-09-2020, 07:07 PM | #24 |
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Yup. Ekler’s ownes a bunch of unrelated car sites. The link is broken now, but it worked when I posted it. Here is a link from another vendor that has the same price. https://www.mikes-afordable.com/prod...31-UA11N3.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
10-09-2020, 07:26 PM | #25 | |
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Brent, If *each* upholstery kit is a custom cut, I would agree with your point. Certainly, I see in your shop there is a ton of your shop’s labor involved in painstakingly making sure that every part fits properly on a customer’s car, as it should be, to turn out a high quality product. However, the kits that I have seen online I’m thinking are standardized copies made from templates that the manufacturer’s already has in stock. I would think that the labor required to cut the fabric would not be that expensive presumably because the resulting manufactured product would be essentially just a “trace” (for lack of a better term) of the preexisting templates. One thing for sure that I did not consider is the amount that vendors likely mark up the wholesale manufactured product for retail sales. From what I understand, 100% markups can be common for certain retail products, and I understand everyone has to make a profit to stay in business. I don’t know if 100% markups are common in upholstery kits or not. I’ve been told that sometimes upholstered furniture can be marked up 300%. All I know for sure is folks will charge what the market will bear. So, $2,150 must be the “bearable” price. Customers wouldn’t pay it if they didn’t think the product was worth it. As I understand it, that $2,150 does not appear to include any custom labor that would be required to tailor the standardized kit to the customer’s car. A while back, someone indicated that additional installation labor could cost another $2,000 or so. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk kit Last edited by shew01; 10-09-2020 at 10:20 PM. |
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