What is the cost to manufacture a nail file?
I called a couple companies that produce them and found out it is “proprietary information”.
My google searching skills also failed me.
Does anyone know or know where to look?
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To manufacture one is probably very expensive. However, the equipment setup that it takes to produce one needs a very small amount of new materials to produce the second. I imagine nail files are produced 100,000 or so at a time, at a very low unit cost. I would place it under a quarter each. I’m a guy, so I don’t have any idea what nail files cost at the store, but I can’t imagine it’s more than a couple bucks. So, take your quarter, add in packaging, shipping and tariffs, and $2.99 is looking like the right price to me.
Metal nail files retail at an average of $11
(I couldn’t believe it either)
What kind of nail file? Not that that information will help me answer your question. Just pointing out that different types will yield different answers.
Good point @Facade
Metal nail files are what I’m most interested in.
about 35 cents a piece for cheaper ones the metal ones cost about 1.00 a piece ( just a guess I dont really know)
I did a quick Google and results ranged from $1.49 to $28.60. You need more information if you want a precise answer. I don’t know enough about them to know what information you need, but such a significant range of prices tells me there is more to it than just “metal nail file.”
It would of course vary with quality, but I’d guesstimate as a standard algorithm, say, one-one hundredth to one-eightieth that of suggested retail price?
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