[hpsdr] Hermes cost

[jim goldenberg]

I don't mean to argue but the dialog started because the suggested price of Hermes seems to have escalated to $900. As suggested in one email in India that drives the price to nearly $1800 with tax and duties. I only mentioned labor because I remembered that someone suggested labor prices could lower cost. My point was labor should not be a driver to cost.
 
The real question is why has the Hermes BOM gone up in cost so much?  I would like to see a costed BOM, I might be able to help drive down some of those costs through my day job.
 
Jim Goldenberg, N1KWZ
Director Engineering, L-3 Communications IOS Brashear

--- On Wed, 2/22/12, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Hermes cost
To: "jim goldenberg" <n1kwz at yahoo.com>
Cc: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 9:43 PM





On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:13 PM, jim goldenberg <n1kwz at yahoo.com> wrote:

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Rather than argue about where to produce the boards argue the expected cost of materials. Labor at $2/hr vs $26/hr will not change the cost that much


The complaint was not the use of expensive labor but that some places have 40% or even 100% import tariffs.  A person living in India has to pay over $300 import duty which could be eliminated if the board were produced locally.


One question for someone in India:   Do you pay import tariffs for imported parts?  If so then not much is saved if it is assembled locally if the bulk of the price is parts
 
I don't care much about this but only wanted to clarify the issue is import tariff not labor cost.

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California
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