I'm actually shocked how high your prices are! Your little adapter is 17x
what I can get it for off eBay! [ everybody laugh ]
I'm just trying to point out how silly this is. Prices a year ago were higher
than they are today and we've dropped them accordingly. Obviously the product
offerings above are significantly different too. It's like comparing apples
to oranges. With a $2 wifi adapter you don't actually expect the product to
work, be supported, etc.
We set the price for the item your referring to YEARS ago. The costs have
come down since then and we spent months testing the waters to figure out
what volume would work to get the profit margins as thin as possible. As it
stands I'd be surprised if you can withstand the competition from us. Not the
other way around. And by that I mean your not making sufficient profit at
this price point to make it worthwhile selling. At least not in small
quantities.
What is most humorous about this competition thing is that it would appear
you responded to us and not the other way around. My colleagues telling me
you had set a much higher price originally and it was only that by the time
you announced it we had dropped our prices. It was only then that you lowered
yours.
Lastly I've been contributing to the free software world a lot longer than
ThinkPenguin has been around. So have a lot of the people around here. We're
all struggling to one degree or another. That's no excuse to be rude to one
another. I'd have much rather worked with you than against you. I don't wish
to bash your efforts, but when you so blatantly attack a project I've worked
several years on it does get under my skin.
