It's so much easier to ship to retailers though!
I think it'll be something like (Prices VERY subject to change...)
1@ BTC 1
10@ BTC 0.75
50@ BTC 0.65
100@ BTC 0.6
I think ~550 will be sold and the rest mining personally and be kept as part of a limited warranty (if it breaks in X months, I'll replace it. While supplies last.)
Max order for first X days will be 10 units maybe? after that, if there are still any left, it'll be open to 50 and then 100. General strategy assuming all the costs stay the same and bitcoin doesn't dip to low.
I get that you are doing this to make profit off of the sales of these but I see no possible way someone is going to make back a 1 or even the .75 btc investment. I think this would be much better at .5 or under (without shipping costs of course)
I know I personally won't be interested at all even at the bulk prices.
You said it's easier to ship to retailers and I get that but not the extreme variance from 1 unit to 100 units..You aren't including shipping in these costs are you?
I mean a good example is arklan who had to ship out 300+ units at only a .1 markup of original price. 0.4 markup is absolutely insane and quite honestly I didn't even expect the units themselves to cost 0.4.
It's very time consuming to do a lot of small orders.
Arklan is a cool dude, go ahead and buy from him. (although ASICMiner is juicing you guys real hard for this usbminer...)
I'm not just reshipping boards anyway considering I have to ship chips/ get them made and am fronting 100% of the costs.
I REALLY don't want to send 500 1 miner orders, which is why I priced singles at 1 BTC (cause I know at least 1 person will ask to buy one...) I'm most comfortable with 10 at a time at least. As for my profit margins, it's a free market and I think my current prices are low and reasonable, but by all means you can buy it elsewhere, it is open-source and all. The prices are also not set in stone at all and may go up or down.
