I understand that there is a need for a reasonable mark up, and I understand that there's also a need to pay for the R&D. However, some times you have to decide if your product is worth producing based on the amount of sales that it will generate. And not by way of how can you pay all of your R&D back in a matter of the most minimal time. Not thinking about how many of these units they will potentially sell as time progresses.
If this is all that the P3 is about, than they need to re-consider selling it. Or anything that they make and sell for a price that seems to be $100 to $175 off market. (This assuming that the price IS going to be $700 plus) I would rather know that I can buy a VERY nice home computer, with monitor, and then install the FREE software with a $250 interface box and then be able to not only run the Pan adapter program, but all of my accounting, my Internet browsing and thousands of other things on that same very computer for the same price as a single operation device. Yes, the stand alone box is very nice indeed, but it's not as if I'm going to be saving anything that a nice laptop computer can't give me in the same amount of space. Even if I go Portable, with a laptop I don't have to worry about powering a second device, nor do I have to worry about the logging, because it's already incorporated in the same device, along with everything that HRD or any other control software can do with the K3 also... I know that none of my posts are going to change the price of the P3 right before it's released. That's obvious by the same way it appears they didn't listen to some of us when we requested a Mouse, Keyboard and perhaps even VGA output on the box as well. But someone has to be outspoken and say something about the pricing on this device. This isn't a personal attack on anyone, or the company. This is just a way of expressing my opinion based on other Pan adapters that I have purchased in the past. > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:39:41 -0800 > From: v...@rakefet.com > To: ronce...@earthlink.net > CC: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft P3 panadapter at the Orlando Hamcation > > On 2/13/10 8:23 AM, KM4VX wrote: > > > > The P-3 could sell for a few > > hundred dollars at profit, similar to other panadapters. Instead, we are > > talking about more than double that price. Companies recover their R&D > > investments over time, and the higher the selling price the shorter the R&D > > investment recovery period. How about a breather here? The $700 price being > > tossed around is a bit absurd in my view. > > Keep in mind that the P3 is completely standalone -- you don't need to > add a computer or a display as you do with the other options. You may or > may not think that's a good thing, but it accounts for the price difference. > > I've talked to the Elecraft people about pricing on occasion and they > very definitely do NOT charge what the market will bear, but rather base > their prices on a reasonable markup over the cost. > -- > Vic, K2VCO > Fresno CA > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
