I'm sorry but I think most of you are being very unfair to Schumacher over the cost of tyres. They are not ripping you off and it is not a conspiracy to exploit the market for maximum profit.
Are you saying you can't afford £8 a pair? Probably most of you can especially if you are already running at the sharp end of regional and national competition, and travelling hundreds of miles most weekends. For a club runner that £8 pair of tyres will last half a season.
Is £8 a pair overpriced within the market? Clearly not, as every other tyre is around the same price or slightly more
Is anyone forcing you to buy Schumacher product? Most of the time no, as there are alternative tyres that can be used. The only people forcing you to buy more tyres are yourselves through your desire to be competitive.
Just because Schumacher have, on this occasion, paid for their mould many times over from tyre sales, doesn't mean they should cut the price to £2 a pair all of a sudden. What about the tyre types and compounds that they still produce but hardly anyone buys? If it really rains one day in the year and the call goes out for blue full spikes then everyone expects them to be available. I wouldn't be surprised if they lost money on several of the tyre moulds they have made over the years. And remember they have about 40 employees (plus hundreds of trade customers worldwide) that need to put food on the table, the tyre sales are probably a reliable income for the company in an unreliable market.
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