I'm completely missing your point fella, so i'll move on.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 8:46 am Only if he's willing to donate you 55k of his time. Thats why I said honest.
There are some companies which operate at the a loss like that on some vehciles, I doubt these custom manufacturers are among them.
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If it costs someone to £100k to make a bike and they sell it to you for £45k they've lost 55 grand. That's pretty simple no?
With people like Milyard a huge chunk of that notional 55k is their time. In this hypothetical example if they properly accounted for that the bike should cost you 100 grand. Now I get the sense Milyard isn't doing this to pay the bills, so he doens't charge in that way. In fact does he even sell bikes at all? But if you're running a business and you need to pay teh rent and staff wages and whatever you do need to account for it.
Which is why I said many customs you see on the internet aren't a fair appraisal of the true cost. You couldn't run a long term business at the numbers you see a lot of the time.
With people like Milyard a huge chunk of that notional 55k is their time. In this hypothetical example if they properly accounted for that the bike should cost you 100 grand. Now I get the sense Milyard isn't doing this to pay the bills, so he doens't charge in that way. In fact does he even sell bikes at all? But if you're running a business and you need to pay teh rent and staff wages and whatever you do need to account for it.
Which is why I said many customs you see on the internet aren't a fair appraisal of the true cost. You couldn't run a long term business at the numbers you see a lot of the time.