

The materials are definitely cheap if you find the weight of the materials used in the phone and found out how much it would cost for the materials in bulk and find the ratio for that. In case anybody thinks that the parts are cheap they must be thinking of the materials. Why did it skip over the Apple iPhone SE and Apple iPhone SE 2020? Did anybody else catch that or am I the only one with eyes? Also the profit margin seems to be using some new form of math nobody has ever heard of. The savings is what we intend to spend for that product, is it truly worth it is the question. Two words, Instant Gratification or simply put weak. Why, because the consumer is willing to spend. I get it that’s what make the world go round, but why so much. So ask yourself, why couldn’t they have offered that price in the beginning? The world is all about PROFIT. At the end of the year there is always some serious huge sale and incentive that goes on to move out the old vehicles to make room for the new ones. As soon as you drive it of the lot, it immediately depreciates 3 to 5% than what you have paid for it or here is the cavate. Which is most likely the true value of that product. The price drops to half the cost of what you paid for it at the initial cost. Over time we have seen what happens to cell phones after six months to a year. We (as consumers) buy what the manufacture sale (produce) at whatever price, we make that decision then to basically keep them in or out business. The fact of the matter is that history dictates the future. Overall if you truly give this some serious consideration, we control what happens in the market versus the cost in any aspect, phones, cars, gas etc. The Production Cost, Retail Price and Profit margin and everything else in between. However, we the people as consumers, can in fact change all of this. These are all great comments (for the most part). they can’t make that kind of money on just 50-60% profit, it has to be a huge margin. What is Sprint’s corperate value? 2-3 billion $$$. The same is true for the service providers, if they charge you $50 per month for the service they need to make a huge profit so their cost to provide the service is about $3-$5 the rest is profit.


Thats how they make $100,000,000 profit of one model and billions off the entire line of products. The manufacturer i-phone, Samsung, ? makes $750 – $850 per phone profit Retail markup – $25 (this is what the stores get out of the sale, they also get a commission on the service) The 2 largest pieces of that pie go to the manufacturer and the retailer with the sales person recieving about 2-4% commission on the sale. So that phone you just paid $1,000 for costed a lot less than $400 to manufacture. Some service providers have special deals where they buy the phone if you pay their service fee but not many anymore. Everyone wants a piece of the action from concept, to development, to parts suppliers, and manufacturers, and marketers, and finally the retailers, not to mention the service providers. The cell phone retailer is the end of a 2 to 6 link chain. You buy a product from the retailer for $100 it does not cost $40 to manufacture unless your buying directly from the manufacturer. LOL, LOL, LOL, these cost vs retail are not even close to being accurate. Therefore, make sure to double check the price before purchasing. We don’t use subsidized prices from carriers because you have to pay more during the contract.
HOW MUCH DOES A IPHONE 8 64GB WEIGH FULL
The prices we listed above are the full prices at launch, most of them could have been adjusted after a few months or even weeks. Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (256GB storage, 12GB RAM)
