Why is Shimano 105 5700 (10-speed) is more expensive than 105 5800 (11-speed)?
Does someone know?
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Sign up to join this communityWhy is Shimano 105 5700 (10-speed) is more expensive than 105 5800 (11-speed)?
Does someone know?
Shimano, the distributor, and the retailer can pretty much set the price they want. It is common for older components to be more.
Clearly the distributor and retailer are not going to take a loss.
The marginal cost to Shimano is pretty low. Most of the cost is R&D, tooling, and branding.
Shimano wants you in their higher end stuff to promote their brand.
Once Shimano has machining set up the cost for them to produce one versus the other is the same. And they may have some innovation that the new is actually cheaper to produce.
In addition to Frisbee's answer, consider the middlemen in the supply chain.
There's two main models - Depreciating Stock means the retailer has bought the item at a price, and has to sell it with markup on top to make it worthwhile. While sitting around that stock item's cost is not available, its locked away till the item is sold. Accountants love to play silly-games with depreciating stock over time, to the point its cheaper to sell the item at less of a profit than to keep holding onto it.
Aside - This gets even weirder when the bike shop has to sell a certain number of bikes to keep their dealership rates.... walk into a bike shop at the right time and you can buy a brand new bike for less than wholesale cost, because the shop needs to sell N/month and they're not at that target. Only applies to whole bikes and just certain brands.
The other arrangement is Just In Time ordering where the distributor holds the stocks and the retailer overnights it. For me that's normally in another city, or sometimes in Australia.
So why might the older 5700 be more expensive than the newer 5800? Could be any of: