Not to be rude and im not here to start fights but discussion on Why has this industry been so overpriced for so long? Why are people just accepting this? We spend nearly as much on Eboard wheels as you do for your tires on your car and that’s just one example. Its not only our parts market but complete boards in general priced at not much less than a quality used car…
Also in a industry that’s already WAY overpriced, Those offering a pathetic 15-20% off in the esk8 world is a piss take and any ‘savings’ from that is basically nothing… Look around at black friday deals and in general sectors (electronics, tools, tec) and you see far bigger discounts…
Listen things are expensive because we are at the bleeding edge of technology and we’re standing on them at 30+mph, any failure is very serious and can cost you way more than that shiny part you thought was too expensive.
I imagine a large part of it is the fact a majority of the quality party are community sourced or built… there just arnt the ecconomies of scale you get in the markets you have listed
Ok, so I don’t want to be rude or anything but anyone who even has the slightest bit of knowledge about economic will easily understand what’s going on here.
For example @Hummie hubs:
A big company like Samsung has huge factories with assembly lines trained workers and so on. They can produce in large quantities relatively cheap. Because the also have to buy parts but they can order them in large quantities so that’s also cheap.
On the other hand, a guy like @Hummie has a small production with small quantities and has to put a lot of work into it… So that makes it obviously more expensive. He also orders parts in a small quantitys so that’s make’s it even more expensive.
Just my opinion @Hummie sorry if I got anything wrong…
Ok, so first of all, if you want to talk about prices, it’s roughly £60 and not £50 as you’ve mentioned. 4 fitted tires at that store are £232 which is around 300 USD and a similar quality E-skate wheel set will cost you about $60 shipped. Now, these tires are manufactured in quantities of hundreds of thousands wheres PU wheels are made specifically for this NICHE market in quantities of a few hundreds, rarely a couple thousands.
Btw, notice that word Niche, usually has a big affect on pricing
still going strong 
