Estimates range from $100 to $1,000 (my feeling is that it is on the higher end). It's been discussed in this forum in the past with no real consensus. Nobody from inside the industry with access to the actual numbers has disclosed true manufacturing costs on this forum or anywhere else that I have heard of. There are people that claim to have seen invoice slips but they are not industry insiders and they have quoted what they have seen from memory. There's no telling what the real numbers are.UKSurf wrote:I would be interested to know approximately how much a kite costs to manufacture (labor + materials). It will obviously be dependent on the size but I was once told a 12m with bar is about 400 to 500 dollars US.
400 to 500 dollars to manufacture? No way. Thats more like your wholesale price distributors get from the manufacturer. Then add a few hundred dollars more from distributors--->shops and a few hundred dollars more shops----> to us.UKSurf wrote:I would be interested to know approximately how much a kite costs to manufacture (labor + materials). It will obviously be dependent on the size but I was once told a 12m with bar is about 400 to 500 dollars US.
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