by DaveyJJ
simon_j_barnes wrote:
As someone who works in manufacturing I can assure you that these products are not as expensive to produce as some people think. Add on top of this the fact that everyone has to make a profit and you have your price.
As someone on the receiving end of a number of large game printer's estimates and bills, and who has seen manufacturing invoices for several popular games, the printing/assembly costs of a game is normally 20-25% of the non-sale retail shelf price you see (in runs of 1500-2500). A game that's $15 to manufacture is $60 on the shelves. Just to give you an accurate printing/manufacturing price for board games. You'd be surprised how many components can get into a game box that only cost $10 to manufacture.