Teraminx?!

[04mucklowd]

I personally think the Teraminx wouldn't really be financially viable. The Gigaminx is large enough, and costs enough on it's own. I don't see C4U making much, if any profit on the Teraminx if they do manufacture it.

I hope they do, but meh.

Well, it's not like manufacturing plastic twisty puzzles is terribly expensive; they could probably recoup the costs with just the sales from the collectors. Especially with the prices they'll sell at, considering the price for a Gigaminx.

I agree

The price of the Gigaminx on C4U is about $66 (correct me if im wrong)
So lets just say of the sake of arguement that the teraminx will be about $150 as there are many more parts etc..

The petaminx sold on ebay for about $5000 (again correct me if im wrong)

If you think about it, that would be an absolute bargain if it was that much

What price does everyone think the teraminx will be at if it ever comes on
C4U?
I hardly think that they would put a cube on there that will cost over $500

 

[Muesli]

I personally think the Teraminx wouldn't really be financially viable. The Gigaminx is large enough, and costs enough on it's own. I don't see C4U making much, if any profit on the Teraminx if they do manufacture it.

I hope they do, but meh.

Well, it's not like manufacturing plastic twisty puzzles is terribly expensive; they could probably recoup the costs with just the sales from the collectors. Especially with the prices they'll sell at, considering the price for a Gigaminx.

I agree

The price of the Gigaminx on C4U is about $66 (correct me if im wrong)
So lets just say of the sake of arguement that the teraminx will be about $150 as there are many more parts etc..

The petaminx sold on ebay for about $5000 (again correct me if im wrong)

If you think about it, that would be an absolute bargain if it was that much

What price does everyone think the teraminx will be at if it ever comes on
C4U?
I hardly think that they would put a cube on there that will cost over $500

I'm personally not willing to pay more than the price of V-7 for any puzzle. If I ever get a Gigaminx, I doubt I would get any more puzzles for quite a while. From my point of view, a Teraminx for $150(or the equivalent in £) would be quite a considerable step too far.

 

[aronpm]

DIY3 = $5, MM = $12, V5 = $26, GM = $66, V7 = $41, TM = ?

Operating under the assumption that MM/DIY3 ~= GM/V5 ~= TM/V7, then you get 2.40 ~= 2.54 ~= TM/41
Solve for TM and you get TM ~= $98.4 and TM ~= $104.14

There are probably factors I'm not taking into account, but I think that seems fairly accurate. But, I would expect to pay about $100 for a mass-produced Teraminx. Maybe around $90 for a DIY kit (that would be fun...).

How many people would spend $100 on a Teraminx, though? Most likely the figure would be less than the amount of people who have purchased a Gigaminx. We don't know what their sales and profit levels for the Gigaminx are, so we can't tell if the Teraminx would be financially viable for them.

 

[qqwref]

well, if the teraminx is like a v-cube, shouldn't c4y also sell v-cubes? just a thought.

I doubt V-cubes has given them permission to distribute their puzzles. So I don't think cube4you could buy a large number of official V-cubes at all. I'm happy that they have decided not to sell the KO V-cubes; cube4you has made a few decisions like this in the past and I appreciate that they are making an effort to take less money from the real inventors.

Incidentally, I've heard that Verdes is not interested in megaminx-type puzzles (even with the V-cube mechanism), although this may have changed since I heard that (it was a while ago, probably 6+ months). So if a gigaminx/teraminx has a mechanism similar to the V-cube one for cubes it should not necessarily be considered a knockoff.

 

[luke1984]

Search youtube for "Petaminx" and prepare to be blown away!

lol fail

Search youtube for "Petaminx" and prepare to be blown away!

I think everyone has seen that

yay win!!

At what exactly do I "fail"? There was some form of sarcasm in my post. But I guess that's too complicated for you, like constructing a normal sentence is.

Search youtube for "Petaminx" and prepare to be blown away!

I think everyone has seen that

Then what's the fuzz about the teraminx?

If you actually read the post you'd see that C4Y may start production of the Teraminx.

There was a fuzz about it before someone said C4U may mass-produce it....

 

[TomZ]

The petaminx sold on ebay for about $5000 (again correct me if im wrong)

Let's not get rumours started here. It sold for "only" $3,550.

 

[hawkmp4]

Again, if you read the thread you'd see that this topic is from 2008 and before the Petaminx was built.

 

[luke1984]

Again, if you read the thread you'd see that this topic is from 2008 and before the Petaminx was built.

Ah, so I do suck. And so does the person who bumped such an old topic...

 

[hawkmp4]

It happens, no worries. I've had it happen to me a couple times...
It'd be nice if you could put a big red line or something between posts if there was more than a certain time difference between them.