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Some of the stuff I feel is justifiably expensive. Like investing to develop something new and novel as people already mentioned.
But how many items in the saltwater world really have been researched/invested into and heavily developed and changed to justify the costs?
I swear a lot of the vendors selling saltwater aquarium items are just middle men. They all find the same chinese manufacturers maybe make little changes and sell for insane markups. They aren’t paying for any R&D. And even if they did put in a bit or R&D to make changes to a product I think the cost of that R&D is being exaggerated. It mostly came down to a “hey why don’t we do this!?!?” It’s not as if they’re developing drugs and need to do years of trials. Hell sometimes it seems they don’t even quality control their products. Leave that up to the consumer.
The issue here though is that sure you can say “the market dictates the prices” but in this hobby there is A LOT of interest from very wealthy people who will continue to support it regardless if the prices are fair.
But how many items in the saltwater world really have been researched/invested into and heavily developed and changed to justify the costs?
I swear a lot of the vendors selling saltwater aquarium items are just middle men. They all find the same chinese manufacturers maybe make little changes and sell for insane markups. They aren’t paying for any R&D. And even if they did put in a bit or R&D to make changes to a product I think the cost of that R&D is being exaggerated. It mostly came down to a “hey why don’t we do this!?!?” It’s not as if they’re developing drugs and need to do years of trials. Hell sometimes it seems they don’t even quality control their products. Leave that up to the consumer.
The issue here though is that sure you can say “the market dictates the prices” but in this hobby there is A LOT of interest from very wealthy people who will continue to support it regardless if the prices are fair.