The answer is simple. Make hay while the sun is shining, and as long as you have a lock on the exclusive right's to the product gouge the masses while the going is good. The price won't go up--it's going to go down in 2007. This when the patent rights to the product run out. After the patent is up Joe's AC refrigerant manufacturingg is to make available at a more resonable price, cutting Dupots profit margin big cosiderably. I didnt dream all this up , I got it direct from the source, a Dupont rep at the local AC equipment / product wholesaler last week. R-12 went outa sight simple because the EPA taxed the death out of it. They wanted to eliminate it from being used, and taxing was the name of the game on that product. E-mail message Why would the price go UP if the patent runs out? More manufacturers would be making it. Unless this is a reference to the conspiracy theory that R-12 was only banned because DuPont's patent ran out on THAT... |
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