As I have said before I own and run a commercial building company in Melbourne.
These days I concentrate on commercial fitouts and building jobs for people I have dealt with for years.
Some of you will say i'm selling this down writing this post but it is not the case, I am trying to put my point across that this is a great product being steered toward an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic. We all know how that turned out.
ClearVue from what I can see from certain posters on here, because the info from ClearVue themselves is lacking, they are going to licence the product to glaziers and receive a royalty. Why would you settle for a 2-8% royalty when there is real money to be made.
We have imported supermarket gondolas from China by the 40ft container load and the price we pay over there compared to them being made in Australia allowed me to put an 85% margin on the product to sell to shopfitters, who then put their own 20-25% margin on this. (and you wonder why your grocery bill is so high) We also had quite a bit of stock turn up welded back to front and upside down but this is the chance you take with buying from China.
Why would a company with a great product that Victor and his team have spent years developing settle for a royalty??? The big money for this is in the supply. So ClearVue are going to make some glaziers very rich to their own detriment.
Greed runs the world, not stocks or people, it all comes down to greed and I don't think Victor is being greedy enough.
Forget bus shelters and green houses, with the vandalism that goes on in Melbourne you will be replacing the glass in bus shelters every month. An expensive exercise when using ClearVue glass. A 30cm square solar panel on the roof of the shelter will cost less (as pipninja has stated) and supply more power than all the glass combined.
Green houses have been around for 100's of years why are we know supplying something with power that doesn't need power.
The money in this product is for the commercial application in hire rise curtain walls, manufactured in China and landed here to fit.
Most high rises built in Australia at the moment are so full of Chinese content it's not funny, right down to the joinery for kitchens and walk in robes. All dumped on site from China and fitted by the increasing number of Chinese and Vietnamese contractors on site.
I think I will wait till Christmas, but the way the product is being handled at the moment and the big spends on Germany and USA shows, I'll offer Victor a couple of hundred grand for the company and then start selling it here in Australia where the sun shines.
You can probably tell that right now I am not a fan of this company, but am a huge fan of the product used in the right situation.
Sorry to write so much but you can tell my sentiment from the above.
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