I'm kicking myself for not buying some last week! But even $26 is good markup for a $5- chip, $2- (or less) antennae, 25 cent connector, 10 cent PCB, and 10 cents worth of plastic. Its 3x raw manufactured cost ... OK for low quantity direct pricing. But $50 or higher is just plain gouging! Francois Gurin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:35:31AM -0700, Brian Empey, P.Eng. wrote: > > This USB to BlueTooth adapter is selling for U$26- in single quantities > > ... or it was last week. Now they have another version with an Apple > > label on it that sells on Apple's web site for U$49- ... did someone > > decide that they could gouge for this until competitors appear? > > > > (its at the top of this page: > > http://www.dlink.com/products/DigitalHome/Wireless/11b/11bWireless.htm#usbBluetooth > > either it's out of stock or being discontinued (the dbt-120). Looking around shows a > msrp of $59.00 on the dbt-120. > > if you see them again at $26 or so, let us know, I for one would jump on it. > > --francois > -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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