Originally Posted by
Bill@HPTuners
For reference the MPVI1 had make specific credits so if you bought a GM interface with 8 gm credits you still would've had to buy Jeep credits down the road(if you planned on keeping the Jeep ecm/engine). MPVI2 uses a universal credit system so there will no longer we wasted/extra credits if you plan on tuning multiple makes.
I'll indulge this a bit, this is similar to saying the shop who is charging $90hr plus tax plus parts to work on my car is a greedy because your thinking is that the tech is probably only making $20-30hr to work on your car so thats what you should be paying. The fact is that $60 left goes to social security, the mortgage/rent on the shop, taxes, the secretary up front, the accountant that does the books and a little of whats left goes to the owner.
Its the same here, we are a small company and our product is a niche product, we aren't having hundreds of thousands of these things mass produced for $20 a pop, so lets say it costs us $300 to build a certain product, just to physically build it and get it on our shelves, then add to that the packaging that we have to purchase, the person we had to hire to box them & ship them, the actual shipping costs from UPS, the support team that answers questions about the product, the building to house the support team, the engineers that map the definitions, the accountant that does our books, the engineer that designed, built and tested the product where do you set the pricing at? You can't set the price at the break even point or the company goes under, quick. Ultimately we believe our pricing structure for the MPVI2 is fair and with an initial cost of $399 to tune the majority of vehicles we support is the lowest in the industry. Using the track addict app you can datalog on your android phone on many applications with $0 additional costs. If you want additional features such as the expander hub, standalone datalogging straight to the mpvi2, etc it costs money for us to develop all those things.
Yes the mpvi1 was great but unfortunately it was 14 year old tech that parts were no longer available for. Over the years we had to source different, new, parts to replace ones that were no longer available. If you compare a 14 year old MPVI1 to one that was produced last year there were several internal differences. The MPVI1 lived alot longer than I really expected and that was due to some creative efforts to purchase large quantities of parts that were no longer being produced just to keep production going. And even though our costs went up every year on the MPVI1 we NEVER CHANGED THE PRICE IN 14 YEARS!