I have been involved in products that sell for <$10-20 that were burned in for 24 hours. Equipment costs are amortized over say 2 years, variable costs are electricity, facility overhead, and the labour to put the cable into the equipment, and take it out. Given the claims of technical prowess by these companies, it should not be hard to put together equipment to do this. If it is a high dollar, low volume shop, the margin should easily cover this cost. If it is a high volume, low dollar shop, then the per unit amortized costs should be low.
I don’t think there is a lot of excuse for not doing it, at least for a reasonable amount of time, say 144 hours (1 week).
I don’t think there is a lot of excuse for not doing it, at least for a reasonable amount of time, say 144 hours (1 week).