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New design 9-Dec-2003 At 1:00:31 PM shmalec

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I've had a bit of a think about this in the past and concluded that you need a very innovative product to compete with the big guns. Reasons are as follows:
1) you need to carefully design your product to be better than the rest (not that hard)
2) you need to test it repeatedly in order to optimise its design and then test a statistically significant number of the final one (again not that difficult).
3) it needs to be cheaper than the rest (within Oz this is probabably not that hard but the market is small).
4) in order for people to buy it and not take you to the cleaners every couple of years, you need to have some guarantee of quality that includes documenting that your product consistently achieves some mimimum rated strength. This would be done through test and inspection. (very diff)

But after saying that, I believe that RPs have been successful although I don't know exactly how successful for Mr RP.

The alternative is to create a company with your dead great gran as director, get a swiss bank account and build them from your back shed with english backpackers as sales reps.