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those monthly unit figures for these overpriced rgb fans, just wow. free money.
Yeah I was thinking damn it must be impossible to make money on fans then 0.70 dollors a fan number in the video hit me. I would bet the giga expensive fans out there do cost more and we have seen there is a great deal of engineering in some desgins and that is expensive. But damn the volume and price of fans is just wild.
Arctic sells $5 fans and still makes profit enough that they are willing to give 6 years warranty.
Yeah if the BOM (bill of materials) is 72 cent and shipping and marketing is amortized over every fan they sell them yeah they're happy to give you a warranty.
Honestly, not at all surprising, just head over to r/Corsair or r/lianli for proof.
Half the posts are littered with builds that have $400+ in RGB fans, the other half are people complaining about dying LEDs on overpriced fans.
To each their own, people can choose to spend their money as they will, and I'm not one to judge them for it but my issue is that so many of these RGB fans are so overpriced and more importantly, perform poorly.
Yeah I'm not sure I'll ever understand why people buy these.
Most £80 cases include all RGB fans now, why would you have to spend so much more money replacing them? It's also a waste of the perfectly good fans that you already had.
same reason people by shiny parts for car engines, because it looks good, and they have disposable income
Exactly I don't understand people spending 100$ on RGB that most them underperform on cooling since the blades are smaller
Underperform is only a problem if they aren't doing the job.
The cases are just vessels for overpriced accessories. Lian-Li really started the trend and everyone else followed. Put as many user facing/visible fan mounting locations possible to maximize the $30 a pop RGB fan sales.