ericmark
Regular.
Using simple two can brewing a kit cost approx ã20 for 40 pints for 50p a pint, not selecting cheapest, but a reasonable priced kit. So over a year at a pint a night around ã182.50 on brewing beer, if the brewing machine allows you to half the cost of brewing that's 4 years to break even, add interest to money borrowed and looking at 5 years to break even. That is a huge outlay for unproven equipment, most people slowly progress rather than buying a kit and going full out as a start up system. So I would think you would struggle to sell so many.
As already said you have to do all the safety testing ensuring things like having 13A plug. I bought an inverter from China which went wrong, to return it cost ã85 and then got charged customs duty of ã35 and the whole item cost ã140 to start with, so in real terms just not worth returning under warranty. Buying a item costing ã25 from China OK worth the risk, but as the price goes up, the risk becomes less worth it. If for example they were fitted with 0.75mm cable which is not unknown and you have to re-cable them all for UK market that could cost you a fortune.
This is why we buy from UK distributes, if it goes wrong we can return it, so the risk is the importers not ours. Even with samples things can go wrong, the number of major importers who have been caught out where the sample was A1 but the next batch is rubbish.
It cost Woolworths in AUS a lot of money when it was found the cable they were importing degraded after just 3 years, they were required to foot the bill for 1000's of re-wires. It really is high risk, you would want to form a limited company to limit the risk and good insurance. All which costs money.
As already said you have to do all the safety testing ensuring things like having 13A plug. I bought an inverter from China which went wrong, to return it cost ã85 and then got charged customs duty of ã35 and the whole item cost ã140 to start with, so in real terms just not worth returning under warranty. Buying a item costing ã25 from China OK worth the risk, but as the price goes up, the risk becomes less worth it. If for example they were fitted with 0.75mm cable which is not unknown and you have to re-cable them all for UK market that could cost you a fortune.
This is why we buy from UK distributes, if it goes wrong we can return it, so the risk is the importers not ours. Even with samples things can go wrong, the number of major importers who have been caught out where the sample was A1 but the next batch is rubbish.
It cost Woolworths in AUS a lot of money when it was found the cable they were importing degraded after just 3 years, they were required to foot the bill for 1000's of re-wires. It really is high risk, you would want to form a limited company to limit the risk and good insurance. All which costs money.
