[Icehouse] Attn. Kristin, How much is a lot, anyway?

Christopher Hickman tophu at mac.com
Fri Mar 9 10:13:24 EST 2007


On Wednesday, March 07, 2007, at 04:48PM, "Christopher Hickman" <tophu at mac.com> wrote:
>On Wednesday, March 07, 2007, at 03:37PM, "David Artman" <david at davidartman.com> wrote:
>>Thank you for replying, Andy! Give some thought to that "even remotely
>>soon" thing, please--particularly now that you've gotten folks thinking
>>about 0-pointers, from your YouTube video. ;)
>
> To review, the reason it is not remotely soon is that in order to make them they'd have to have a
> new mold, and a new mold costs A LOT of money.  Perhaps when they do make the new high-
> capacity mold it will make five of each of every size from zero to 5 (a mega-stash?).

You know, I know that the expense of a new mold was emphasized, but how expensive is it really?  Are we talking a few thousand, or like dozens of thousands?


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