On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:20 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > ... I would have no problem paying $75 for this board if we could >> guarantee availibility and continued support (ie being able to stay in >> business).... >> > Have a feeling, even at an hiked up unit price of $75, the hoarders will gobble them up in large #s, and pass the extra cost on to their customers - after all, the free market price would also be $75. I doubt TI could guarantee supplies even at that price - unless something is done to prevent *productizers* from bulk-ordering huge quantities.
TI supposedly released this board as a "community product" and should try and pursue that goal and not just give up that easy. By hiking the price to say $55/60, and through beaglebone.org, TI can allow for the purchase of just a couple of boards to a given shipping address, it can be done since the extra cost could be used to support this option... Many MIR promoters do that today, not entirely impossible (even $60 ARM quad-core based board manufactures do it - 1 per forum member/acct). So beagleboard can make it say 2 or 3 or some reasonable small #. The hoarders can always buy from those other distributors - whose stock-notification scheme is a mere joke. 10mins into getting an email - they are back to 0-stock. Gerald, Pl. figure out a reasonably affordable scheme for the community and another for market-driven scene, where folks are building products using these, against all (practically legally non-enforceable) warnings. The entire learning/maker community, imho, is being heavily penalized, for the actions of a few hoarders. thanks. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
