ALTERNATIVE TO MATRAX

I agree, but i would say it one of those "its not the cost of materials, but the cost of producing them" things.

They are probably designed here and made in China, so initial start-up costs to have them designed, contacts established, tooling made, materials bought, labor to make them, cost of shipping, marketing, distribution (or the word of the moment... logistics) aswell as profits factored in along the way, not to mention the copyrighting and risk the bloke took to outlay the money in the first place, would justify the seemingly crazy price for what you see as just an injected moulded plank of plastic...
Different if K-Mart sold thousands of them a year though...

Yeh.... I second that

Donks1

Designed here and made here from Australian Materials actually!

Or someone/all are making a massive markeup. I had thought about these, but not at that rediculous price.

Happy trails, Mike

"They are probably designed here and made in China, so initial start-up costs to have them designed, contacts established, tooling made, materials bought, labor to make them, cost of shipping, marketing, distribution (or the word of the moment... logistics) aswell as profits factored in along the way, not to mention the copyrighting and risk the bloke took to outlay the money in the first place,"

And don't forget ARB's 100+ % mark up !!

The main reason why I don't go anywhere near their stores.

Cheers
Pezza

LOL

When I was a young bloke, and not too bright, I used to carry two strips of PSP. Picked them up at an abandoned WW2 airfield in FNQ. Weighed about 30kg each. Never used them. Took a while to work out I could get just as far by letting some air out of the tyres and doing a little digging.

George_M

i've been to fraser countless times and never gotten bogged and wondered how people managed to do it. then last trip coming back from sandy cape we removed a couple of bogged vehicles from the ngkala inland track using a mates set of maxtrax (was super easy with these). come my turn i headed up the southern entrance to the track as it was easier, come around a blind corner down a hill and found a motorbike who had jumped the queue stalled and stuck halfway up a sandhill. i was now stuck between two uphill sections in very soft sand and quickly got bogged as i tried to ease myself out.
the recovery was easy because i stopped before digging down to deep, used maxtrax to reverse me out back up the hill.
MORAL OF THE STORY
it's not always your fault why you get stuck, i had tyres down low (16psi) but had to stop somewhere i normally wouldn't of because of somebody eles actions.

as for the original posting,
check out the Maxtrax website, i'm sure RRP used to only be $295 (yes i'm hearing you say that's still to expensive), unless they've had a recent price rise.

Marketing and a nice orange colour!

You cant have too much, only too little!
I'd hate to be stranded in a bog with the sun setting and the beers still in the waeco.... (i think i'd pay twice the price!)
I think maxtrax are a good thing if you know when and how to use them (as mentioned) and although are relatively expensive and well marketed, they could find their way into my roof basket for my next trip.

I'm with you Tippa. I travel a bit on my own and anything that makes getting unstuck easier is worth considering. I paid $295 for my Maxtrax and I hope I never have to use em. But if I do, I am sure I'll be happy about the purchase.

Yep they look good. Sort of like the door mats I was talking about. $77 bucks, a damn site cheaper too!

Cheers Mick

A mate tried using them when stuck on an up hill section of dune on the Simpson, all they did was rotate around the tyre, absolutely useless.

Used Maxtrax from another vehicle and he got out OK. The Maxtrax we had were for "evaluation", didn't cost us a bean, but at their rrp of $325 I wouldn't bother. Have used sections of arc mesh fencing in the past with good results.

That price is only for one sand mat - ie one wheel. The Maxtrac are priced as a pair.

I have a pair of Maxtracs and the one time I used them , they worked perfectly.

Time - when you were bogged, did you say " bugger this, Time stands still for no man "

Cheers,

Willie

No Willie, just "Marched on!"

If you can "cure all things" , you would make a hell of a doctor.

No, I just "cure all wounds". Particularly my own, with a stitch that helps me save 9!

Now thats awesome.

Cheers. So affirming everything i stated, whats even better is they are made in our country for the understandably high price, other than outsourced to cheaper labour where the price could be questioned moreso.
Not sure how you know it took 90k to get them on shelves but it is believable.
Cheers!

Great to see they are a fully Australian desidned, made and owned product!
So if everyone is saying $325 is too expensive and is the only argument against more members buying the product you can sell for cheaper, what can you sell them for?
Your web site doesnt have prices.
Who knows, this topic may have drumed up a bit of business for you.
Cheers!

The ute liner idea sounds like it would work- the woven recycled tyre stuff. Only pain in the you know what would be unloading everything to get them out lol.