ferrellsl wrote:
@Persia
Finally, someone on this board who has the courage to tell the truth! And I might add that the price for a SAM is freakin' outrageous!
Unfortunately it's true, unless some kind of promotion as
this happens again, than it is "just" very high.
I think the price is, indeed, stupid from a consumer's perspective. It reminds me of times when I worked in b2b hardware sales. Stuff like printservers or serial converters were 3-5 x more expensive than some other brands' consumer-targeted products with similar specs(!). It is understandable since such items are usually sold in various sorts of tenders worth millions $$ in total, in heavy amounts, being largely discounted, though.
So maybe the case is that ACube maintains industrial/b2b offer (does anybody have a link to some final solution, not necessarily with AOS4 in it?) while simultaneously forgetting/neglecting/scr*wing regular consumers?
Funny, if they dropped the price, say, 30%, they would surely feel the impact. Also, manufacturing and assembling such stuff usually doesn't exceed 20% of the SRP, in this case I'm sure it's below 10%. Or if it is more, why are they not outsourcing the whole thing to China or another freaky place to hit the price down?
What's that margin for while your can hardly make profits out of it?