Karen Cantwell, founder of iStaySafe, breaks down the retail pricing and monthly subscription fee for the company's personal safety smartwatch devices.
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“This one costs around 200 dollars Australian. So for the hardware, and then you're looking at between at around like 15 to 20 dollars a month for the SAS and the SIM and the use of the platform.”
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Cantwell: Investors own approximately 60% of iStaySafe
“So the investors probably own, at the moment we've got investors that own probably about 60% of the business.”
“The new one that's coming out is a little bit cheaper to make than the previous one we had because we've just changed manufacturers, but it costs us probably around between 60 to 80 dollars Australian landed.”
Cantwell: 80% of iStaySafe business comes via B2B resellers
“About 20% of our business is now business to consumer, whereas previously when we started it was all business to consumer, whereas now we're more B to B because we've really moved into more of a reseller market in the last probably two years. So probably about…”
Cantwell: iStaySafe wholesales watches for $150, making $70 margin per unit
“With the resellers, we will sell the watch for them at about a 150 dollars wholesale. So we make less, we make probably about 70 dollars a watch on the watches, on the reseller price.”
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