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Originally Posted by EveAnna Manley

Apologies for my Auntie-Spaminal eating your first email up.

Speaking from the perspective of a manufacturer:

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Anyway, suppose we get the tubes in and then, say we like them, and the yield is decent, now let's come up with tens of thousands of more dollars to get a couple hundred tubes in stock, which, depending on yield, and depending on demand, determined by price, which can't go too much higher than retail cost of the tubes to start with, and wholesale cost is not much less, why would I go through that huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge investment and tie up massive amounts of cash to bless a tube that would make us an extra $20 or $40 net profit per Variable Mu® Limiter sold? (Presuming we make them an option and charge more for them, or just raise the price and charge more).

The number$ do not work for me to get involved to put this tube into production units, at this price structure.

I can't imagine in a couple of months looking at a reject tray of 100 tubes, tubes that were too noisy or whose two triodes don't match well enough to use them, and thinking, wow: look at that small pizza box of a hundred bad tubes worth $12,000! Will JJ take them back?

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It seems to me that the standard approach here would be to make an arrangement with JJ for presorted tubes. Even if they wanted to increase the price by 50% or something for the service, it would be worth it and you would just adjust your price to reflect that. Were talking about rather pricey stuff to begin with here, so a 10 or 15% bump in the purchase price of a unit is not unreasonable.