I remember questing this things existence and the cost on twitter on Mike’s tweet thinking he wouldn’t see it, and he did and replied.
Wish I could easily dig that up.
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Done
I think he confused his arse with his mouth there 
. It’s that expensive because artists know that there are die hard drones out there that will spend any amount of money on any kind of tat that an artist will pump out.
These are my optimistic estimations (i.e it’s probably cheaper) for production costs:
- Fancy box (multilayer cardboard, fancy opening, padding, colour): ~£5
- LE CD (assuming a retail price of ~£15): ~£5
- Book (Hard covers, gloss papaer, colour ink): ~£10
- Fancy-looking magnet: ~£2
- Globe (generic glass, generic wood [probably pine, might be something slightly nicer], sculpture [most likely injection moulded], ferro fluid, glue): ~£15
Total: ~£37 - Let’s call it £40 for simplicity.
Generally the rule of thumb (as said by an experienced design and production engineer I once spoke to) is to mark things up to 3 times the production cost. So if this cost £40 to make, they should have sold it for ~£120, but instead they sold it for ~£360. That’s a 9 times mark-up from the estimated production cost.
What you’re actually paying for is a logo and a placebo.
Daaaaamn… how you do dat
NM, got it figured out.
Wish you could search for likes, to see who has liked your tweets, be interesting.
Yeah the Twitter search functionality is pretty fleshed out, just searched from Mike, to you, and around 2013
That’s generous 
I don’t get into it much but I hear of margins being much bigger
I agree but then again it’s the market…can’t blame them for striking while they can-cough cough pt cough cough
Obviously that’s going to vary by manufacturer, but he said it was a general ball park.
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Pure curiosity but was he into a specific market? Auto?
He was from a company that made bespoke electronics, no idea if he has dabbled in the past or if he has connections though.
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Guys thanks for the suggestions and responses. As can be seen on the safety instruction guide, czferro are the ones to provide the ferrofluid. So it should be possible to grab some new fluid from then.
I have zero experiences or ideas of cleaning this stuff, but I will carefully try out your suggestions with a friend of mine, whom surely will have a bit more knowledge. Will let you know how it goes, whenever we do the thing.
Hopefully more owners of the box set will check by this thread by then.
@LP13413 can you upload some pictures of your globe so we can compare?
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Ferrofluid is generic stuff, it’s like water. Doesn’t matter who you get it from, it’s still water, you just need the right volume.
I’m not liable for any f*ck ups.
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And honestly, lots of the fluids will look alike in the orb for sure.
Of course, that’s why I bring my friend 
For comparison, I made an unboxing video when mine arrived.
This is what it looks like today.
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That looks like the crap that comes out of my ceiling these days. Legit.
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oh my god…
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