Premium Members Pedro Guimaraes SOC Posted April 24, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Huge issue for me would be price....yet nobody has asked about that? Granted I want to first state that I sympathize with the inventor and manufacturer on the costs of R&D.... but that said....as a consumer I wanted to give my first impression at pricing... When you look at a Klassen vest you can clearly see where the high cost comes from...monocoque carbon fiber, hand laid leather...air bladders....cnc parts...$7000 more or less....I get it. When you look at PRO vest you also see the cost.... My first impression of the exovest.....well that it shouldn't nearly as much. why? Well.....that's hard to say. My first impression i guess. maybe it's because it looks like a couple 15mm iris rods in the front and back with some pads at each end...(Please understand it's not my intention to be insulting.) The construction and materials are minimal. Which makes it very light by the way I don't know...something about it just doesn't scream high dollar....or high manufacturing costs... So I walked away from my test thinking....well if it's not that expensive I'll try it... but what do I know...right? Certainly you can price an invention/product at whatever you want. Maybe the market can bear more than I think. I do know that if it's priced high than I probably will not buy it. If it's priced below $2000 I will probably buy it and give it a good run. If it's too much more than that than I'll probably just keep on living with my PRO, let others buy it and gauges the response. I hope it gets priced in a affordable way so that more people might give it a try. Sooooo.......Chris/Tiffen reps.... ANY THOUGHTS on pricing? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members James Davis Posted April 24, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 I think somewhere in between the price of the LX and Ultra 2 vest would be reasonable, if it was say...only a little bit more than the LX vest is new, I would be very tempted by it, price wise anyway. I would still need to try it and see if I like actually like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Janice Arthur Posted April 24, 2012 Moderators Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Pedro and others Cost thoughts. If its a vast improvement over current vests and front and back mounts and nothing else like it; then it isn't going to be under 2k That's my thought. I'm guessing 4k plus or minus $200 It is a brilliant new break through and recent thoughts of my own had me wondering if u could get rid of the mid chest straps But I didn't see how to do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Stone Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Excellent Job by the Digital Cinema Society on that interview... Osvaldo Silvera Yes excellent job and thanks to DCS. For those that haven't clicked through the posted links, Chris did a fabulous run through the vest explaining the physiology. Quite impressed. Here's a link to the page that contains the interview... scroll down a bit. Fourth vendor down on the page: http://www.digitalcinemasociety.org/content.php?page=NAB%202012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted April 24, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Vote for Pedro, when I saw it and wore it my pricing impression was no more than $3K and it should be less Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members James Davis Posted April 25, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Vote for Pedro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Pedro Guimaraes SOC Posted April 25, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 man....If I ever ran for anything I'd be set. I have an unbeatable campaign slogan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Dean Smollar Posted April 25, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 man....If I ever ran for anything I'd be set. I have an unbeatable campaign slogan. You got my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted April 26, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 man....If I ever ran for anything I'd be set. I have an unbeatable campaign slogan. You got my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members BJMcDonnell SOC Posted April 26, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh my GOD!! HAHAHAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members William Demeritt Posted April 26, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 man....If I ever ran for anything I'd be set. I have an unbeatable campaign slogan. You got my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Dean Smollar Posted April 26, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 LEAVE ME ALONE LLAMA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Sanjay Sami Posted April 26, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 man....If I ever ran for anything I'd be set. I have an unbeatable campaign slogan. You got my vote. Ron could be your campaign manager, seeing as he has the T-shirts printed :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Brant S. Fagan SOC Posted April 26, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Pedro T-shirts will be priced accordingly at US$4,000. Call Ron to order now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Alfeo Dixon SOC Posted April 26, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 what the hell is this thread about again?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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