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    1 year ago

    Okay. You’re just completely ignoring what you want so you can keep your head in the sand.

    Goodbye. Keep spending your money, lol. You’re totally not getting ripped off.

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      Because I understand the business realities of making small niche products?

      I’m not buying it. I don’t care what they price it at. That doesn’t change the unarguable fact that there are substantial fixed costs that are extremely hard to recoup on small market products.

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        Lol. If you understand business so well, why does it need to be spelled out for you that businesses charge what people are willing to pay, not what something costs to produce?

        Come on man.

        I don’t care what they price it at.

        Okay. Lol. You’re the reason things are so expensive. You just pay it without a second thought.

        It’s impossible for something to be overpriced in your mind. Lol.

        But yeah. You ‘know business.’

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          Because it’s only possible to arbitrarily go meaningfully above your cost when you have some established market advantage.

          Luxottica can jack up prices because they own every luxury sunglasses brand on the planet. Star Labs can’t jack up prices because the day they exceed their costs meaningfully, someone else with the same economics will steal their market share.

          The actual cost of doing business is the core factor in determining their price. If they could afford to lower prices, they would do it so they could grow.

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            Their ‘market advantage’ is appealing to people like you, who are willing to pay more for lesser hardware.

            the day they exceed their costs meaningfully

            This is where you, still, don’t understand what’s going on. I’m sorry. I’m literally tired of spelling it out for you. At this point, you’re either unwilling or incapable of comprehension.

            Goodbye.

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              From the guy who’s shocked a company offering a small, niche product to a small, niche audience has to charge more per unit than Dell selling a hundred million units to keep their business alive.

              Nice.