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After having thougth a lot, I arrived to several conclusions :
The "per device" cost is 525€ + shipping
The fixed cost for the whole project (R&D+Loan) is 190k €

The main way to significantly decrease the total cost of a device is to decrease the fixed cost, by selling more devices. I mean, if 1000 Neo900 are sold instead of 500, each customer pays 190€ instead of 380€. In many countries (with 20% VAT), it means more than 230€ saved for each customer. So what about finding a partnership, or launching a crowdfunding (as wicket proposed a few posts above) ? With a crowdfunding, the "per device" cost can be adjusted with the main goal of the project.

One more thing is the pool of donators who will not buy a device.
I'm sure not every donation will end with an order. And I'm sure there will be a few "new" customers who didn't previously donate because they were not aware of this project.
There were 423 donations. How many of them were at least 100€ worth ? Let call this number X.
As soon as there are more than 500-X orders without rebate, each new order (ie without rebate) means for the smallest rebate remaining (ie not used yet) :
- either it will be used, so (380 - its worth) € is gained for the project / could have been removed from the fixed costs
- or it will not be used, so its worth is gained for the project / could have been removed from the fixed costs

What I mean is if we can accurately evaluate the number of buyers (especially new buyers) and it's high enough, the price can fall for everyone, which means more potential buyers.

Last edited by Bearserker; 2015-05-06 at 14:31.
 

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