Mama Bear wrote:
> It could be commercially viable though. All it requires is a water tank
> with a circulation pump, and electronics. It might add $25 to the cost
> of the coffee maker but you could charge $50 more for the feature.
You need one more thing: sufficient numbers of people willing to buy it,
in order to achieve the efficiencies of scale necessary to bring the
cost down to what that [probably small] group would be willing to pay.
Then, if the concept of up-temperature brewing does happen to catch on
with the m*****, the Black & Deckers, etc., will all jump on the
bandwagon and start producing them, thus eliminating your unique selling
proposition. You can patent the method, but not the concept.
BTW, with standard distribution channels, the price to the consumer
needs to be ~4-5 times the cost of production.
--
St. John
I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than
most western countries.
-George Burns
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