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Originally Posted by tabrams31
Well if Amuse made kits affordable for people to put on their $30K 370z, there might not be any knock-offs. I understand 370ztune that you are just trying to sell them through your shop - but $5K + shipping + painted and install is too much for a Z... You are looking when all is said and done at $8K+ if you bought the real Amuse kit... Get them to bring down their price and I bet there would not be any need for a knock-off.. But the big swing from $2600K for a full kit with wing and the $5k is too much for some..
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The cost comes from all the R&D costs in making the original kit in Japan. FRP molds in Japan can cost in excess of $30K. They need to amortize the costs of this into every piece until they're totally paid off.
The only reason the $2600 price for the knock-off can exist is because they were able to have some cheap molds made off an authentic kit. (No time invested in drawing a design, purchasing a Z, adding clay and foam to the exterior, spending hours of sculpting to make everything look perfect and symmetrical, making prototype molds off that, testing the production of the prototype parts, adjusting the molds and so on and so forth)
The production costs in SoCal for FRP are also very low. I can pretty much guarantee you that the knock-off kits make more money for the sellers than the real Amuse kit does for them. Especially when it costs about $200 (or less in most cases) for a knock-off bumper to be produced that is then marked up 300% (or more).