Compact Macintosh replica boxing price questions

[quorten]

Cardboard is cheap, but manufacturing replica shaped foam blocks for the compact Macintosh shipping box is going to have a substantial up-front cost that is difficult to amortize when selling in small volume like 50 boxes total.  It is possible to change the design to make it cheaper, but then again, I'm not sure if that would really be desirable because you might as well just substitute your own packing filler materials like bubble wrap and packing peanuts.

 

Also,  I'm curious to see how I should approach refining a foam blocks design for manufacturing.  If we do decide to proceed on some sort of foam blocks design being manufactured, I'd probably present a design first to get feedback and then open a crowdfunding campaign to see if we can cover the up-front cost of the mold production.

Alternatively, if you're just buying the cardboard, you may primarily be interested in the printed design and not care so much for having space for excellent padding during shipping and storing the peripherals, this is where the reduced box dimensions print comes into play.

Edited November 5 by quorten
Minor grammar corrections

[quorten]

For reference, here are links to the previous poll and development thread on the subject.

 

 

[quorten]

Hello folks who have voted on the previous poll about what kind of boxing you would want, I could really use some of your feedback on this question about the desired price point.  This will determine which remaining design efforts (if any) will be pursued before creating a crowdfunding or group buy campaign for the product.  I'd like maybe 10 responses to get a good idea.