A fascinating thing I leaned in one course somewhere along the line is that manufacturing costs play no part in retail or wholesale pricing. They are a sunk cost by that time. It's so counter-intuitive that it stuck in my memory.
Most of us probably realize that in a matter of months $200+ will be an absurdly high price for something like these little sticks, and especially the mere 300MH/sec.
The people on this thread are the 'tip of the spear' when it comes to future activity in this space. It actually could be a good business decision to make us feel that we got a 'break' from ASICMINER so I would not rule it out.
This being 'group buy' and not a 'retail' effort it is possible that ~arklan would pass along the fruits of such a thing to us participants.