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Posted by T_Bone on 08-Apr-2004 17:19 GMT | In reply to Comment 777 (Sammy Nordström): >>You think Eyetech pay more than $500 for the boards?
> Are you talking about the price from the hardware manufacturer or the total
> cost for all the resources spent on making those boards available to the Amiga
> market and with support for AmigaOS4? People expecting Eyetech to sell
> products without covering their own expenses are the real suckers, IMO.
I'm not talking about OS4 at all, I'm talking about the board, always have been. I'm talking about the price of the already manufactured board, from the factory Mai contracted for their boards.
> Anyway, you know very well what I'm trying to say here, but you also do
> everything you can to degrade the discussion into things that are not even
> relevant to the issue at hand in order to hide yourself from your own claims.
I didn't respond to *you*, *you* responded to me, so don't act like I'm the one changing the subject. My original point was an objection to the statement "They are selling what is essentially a polished and cost-reduced development board."
> Your most notable claim is that MAI would be selling Teron boards cheaper than
> Eyetech's AmigaOne boards, yet there is no official information available
> except for the that old press release which is talking about "soon", ie
> sometime in the future, selling Teron boards through strategic partners, but
> still no information saying that this would actually have become true.
So you think the Teron board doesn't exist? You think that Eyetech arn't really getting these boards from the manufacturer that Mai recommended, and stated they used as well? You think that when Ross Heinlein said he bought 6 boards from Mai at $500 apiece that he wasn't getting what he thought?
> And now you are suggesting that the $500 would be the price from the Asian
> manufacturer of the Teron boards, twisting and mixing manufacturing costs with
> end-user prices... STOP IT!
Manufacturing costs? $500 is the MSRP, do you know what that stands for? that has overhead already built in! Do you seriously think it costs MORE than the MSRP to manufacture?? You said "I didn't mean the Teron is vaporware, just the $500 price. But then, I think you already knew that, now didn't you? " to which I replied that Eyetech do not spend more than that manufacturing them, because, obviously, the manufacturing cost is less than $500 if the MSRP is $500.
> Just answer the question; can I, or can I NOT buy a Teron board from MAI Logic
> themselves for the price of $500? If you are still claiming this to be true,
> back it up.
Email Mai and ask for one, just like it says to do in the press release. that's why the contact information is there. marketing@mai.com or orders@mai.com, or rossheinlein@hotmail.com and ask him.
> I don't want to hear a single word about manufacturing costs, etc. because the
> end-user price is all that is relevant to us as end-users.
You were the one who brought up manufacturing costs, I quoted MSRP. That's the price end users can reasonably expect to pay. You and I seem to disagree on "reasonable" as I find a markup that's 60% of the MSRP unreasonable, and CERTAINLY flies in the face of the original statement I objected to, ""They are selling what is essentially a polished and cost-reduced development board." |
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