Re: Dome shed simplicity

["J & D Goldman" <jmgoldma at dwx dot com>]

>O.K. gang...I've read these long enough.....Just tell em to buy a
panelized
>dome kit. It's not hard and they ain't expensive. Heck we built an 8'
dome
>for a storm shelter top...geodesically correct (like that word?)The
really
>cool ones are the Lexan domes from Applied geodesics. We sell em and
boy are
>they the cats meow for hot tubs and stuff. JJ


Quite right, but I suspect we are talking about different market
segments.  When you can pick up a 10x10 Sears shed locally for about
$200, the price of current dome kits takes them completely out of
range for the mass market.  If you've got a kit source that can
compete, be economically viable, and gets past all the consumers'
reasons "not to" put up a  dome, please point me there...  My
perception (perhaps incorrect?) has been that no one has really
figured out how to get small dome structures to catch on and pay off -
thus the discussion relates to capturing this elusive high volume,
"low end" buyer that has probably been written off for now by dome
manufacturers.  Fact is, I'll bet minivans were overlooked time and
time again also, but their time did come.  I muse about whether we
will see this with domes, and if so, how will that come about.  I for
one would like to give it a good prod any way I can.
-Dan G,