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lalo
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Aug 19, 2013
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shouldn't the price go down since we have 25% more sales than the originally estimated? I'm just wandering since its my first massdrop
benblazak
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Aug 19, 2013
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laloWe asked them about another price drop due to >200 sales during the first round, but (IIRC) they said that after production hits ~200 kits, cost per unit doesn't go down much with greater volume.<br /><br />Edit: Oops, forgot they moved the maximum discount down to 100 units, lol. But still, it makes sense, for what's going on. The custom parts are still being made in batches of a few hundred, which isn't exactly homebrew volume, but it's definitely not commercial volume. Switches alone, if you source them yourself are going to run you at least the $44 they discount if you elect not to include them (if you find them cheap), and the minimum order quantity from Cherry is something like 100,000 IIRC, so no ordering those direct. Key caps are a similar situation. And even the Teensy's, if I have the right impression, aren't exactly mass produced by the supplier. And those 5 components (PCB, case, switches, key caps, and Teensy) are almost the whole cost of the kit.
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