On 28/04/2021 16:18, Pamela wrote:
It doesn't really matter whether a different physical production line
is used for each product or they share the same line but different
materials are used. In the end, a single factory can produce one
battery at one price and another battery at another price.

Worse, they can have - say a 15% failure rate of batteries that are sub
standard.

These get sold off cheap and rebadged and sold by cowboy traders.
Sir Clive Sinclair stated out like that selling reject Newmarket
semiconductor transistors to hobbyists.


A factory's purpose is not to product the highest quality fault-free
items possible. It's purpose is to make a profit at any level of
quality and that might mean providing the market with offerings at two
different price points.

Sure.

And making a turn on what would otherwise turn up in the scrap bin

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