"Fresh Monniker" > wrote in message
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> "Jon Endres, PE" t>
> wrote:
>
> >You aren't missing much, but the step up in features to the
> >"professional-style" range isn't in sync with the price jump.
>
> If this were true, then you or someone would be able to start a very
> profitable company to vastly undercut all those overpriced companies
> out there and dominate the market for nice high quality ranges at a
> reasonable price.

I'm not so sure. A typical commercial range is in the price range of $1500
to
$2500. The home models that look like them only have some additional
insulation to prevent them from burning up wood cabinets. I doubt
insulation could suddenly make these ranges cost 3 times as much.

The issue is probably volume. I don't have numbers but I would suspect that
$6000 and up ranges are a fairly small percentage of the total marketplace.
So, in order to maintain production one must market the products as luxury
products and get an appropriate price since large scale production isn't an
option. I think the market for $3000 ranges is probably a pretty small
percentage of the business as well so cranking up production to address such
a small market at, say, half the price is probably a money losing
proposition.

Obviously the manufacturers of commercial ranges make a profit at much lower
prices. One would suspect, then, that the marketplace for ranges of this
type in commercial establishments is way, way larger than it is for the
consumer marketplace.

Fred
The Good Gourmet
http://www.thegoodgourmet.com