Jane, Of course not. Sharism still makes the profit that they make. Wolgang sells to someone in USA at a price that allows them to sell on Amazon.
Tuxbrain evidently 9while still in business) was a "master distributor" so Pulster (Germany) bought from Tuxbrain (Spain) who bought from Sharism. So he suffers from buying from a middleman. Buy a Ben wherever you like. All roads lead to Rome. I mean China. --- Ron K. Jeffries [email protected] On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:34, Jane Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > Does this mean I am a traitor if I get a Nanonote from Amazon? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: 02/10/12 01:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Nanonote @ amazon > > > > Open hardware, open source, open market. > > Sounds nice, but it is a complete mismatch of the word "open". > > We have all one aim: spreading the idea and the "incarnations" of it, > this means hardware. Without hardware, no hacking, no community etc. > > For spreading the hardware to the masses, the good old way of > manufactorer-distributor-reseller is helpful. > > I buy the Nanonotes from EU-distributor Tuxbrain for 91 eur and sell > them for 109 eur in Germany. This is a margin of 18 eur. It may sound > "ok" for you, but I can tell you it is too less to make a living. > I dont complain, I am not Robin Hood, but what I want to say: at the > moment OpenSourceHardware is possible only as subvention/hobby. > > Now Qi-Hardware is selling its product to some other reseller such > cheap, that it can be sold to end customer for USD 94 (=71 eur). > This makes simply confusions on all sides. > In the end, this is not good for the sales, therefor for the project. > > Christoph > > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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