rusty34 wrote:
Eric,
I will be buying one of your H2B handbooks next month (already over budget this month according to the chairman of the board). Am hoping you will also reproduce the Owner's Warranty Handbook. My original is dated March 1974.
Thanx, Rusty34
Thank YOU so very much for the post Rusty34. I do not come on this or the other boards anywhere near as often as I would like, mainly because of the chairman, er... chairwoman, of the board I must also answer to! Hopefully that will change during the winter but a bit of an update on these handbooks is due right now. First, all the reproduction handbooks are shown here with the most recently completed being the 1973 H1D.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/ericsattic/m.ht ... 4340.l2562I would really like to reproduce the Owner's Warranty Handbook but it's highly unlikely before at least 2014. I actually had my printer examine it and give me a price to reproduce it and it was very cost prohibitive. Keep in mind those warranty books came with only the 1974 and 1975 triples models. And, I would probably sell less warranty handbooks than owners manuals themselves. For example, in real round figures I have to sell between at least 40 and 50 reproduction handbooks just to pay for the production costs and other expenses related to the initial reproduction and related expenses of any given handbook (the total cost to reproduce 100 books plus feeBay and paypal fees, shipping expenses, etc...). Some handbook editions are real blockbuster sellers like the 1972 H2. That's because that model is highly collectible and they produced lots of H2s that year. Same thing for the 1969 H1 though there were not many of those models made. However, some handbook editions are a real bust like the 1973 H1D and the 1974 H2B. I would love to own either of those bikes but fact of the matter is they are not at the top of the triples collectible list. Proof in that statement is that I have sold less than ten H1D books to date and if I remember correctly only around 25 H2B books. In fact, I have sold just 35 of the highly collectible H2C handbooks to date. Those numbers are in stark contrast to over 100 1972 H2 books. So that is why when I average everything out, I have NOT made a profit on these handbooks, which by the way was never my intention in the first place. Right now my "profit" to date will not even pay for the reproduction cost of the next book in the program, which should be the 1974 H1E. However, if I do not sell more H1D books that might not happen, which is why I may never be able to reproduce the owners warranty handbooks. I am NOT complaining here, just trying to lay out all the facts for those interested. But, never say never so let's just wait a while and see how many reproduction books sell in the coming months. Regards, Eric
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