You are correct. I saw a post the other day about a new Toshiba laptop. They are expecting to sell 200,000 of them per month. If a company sells 2,000 units of a Braille display product over its entire lifetime it is considered a big success. It takes a lot of money to do the r & D for new products. Not to mention the support of the product after it is released. When you can spread this cost out over several hundred thousand units it isn't so bad. When you have to spread the cost over say a thousand units it is much more of a problem. The other factor that is effecting prices right now is that since most of these products are made in other countries the dollar exchange rate is a problem. Over the past couple of years the dollar has lost about a third of it value when compared to the euro. If this trends continues we will start seeing price increases on a lot of things not just adaptive technology. Tommy -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Masterson Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:12 PM To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Papermeier Braillex ELBA note taker Remember that each braille cell in a display costs (last time I got a price) around $125 per cell. There is a problem with the age supply and demand we don't need enough parts to make manufaturing them cheap. So by the time you add the cost of a case and the rest of the hardware not too mention the labor for puting these together and other costs I don't think the companies are making a huge proffit. Just a guess on my part. By the way I don't like the prices either but I don't see a way to lower them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "the brilliant beast" <hanksmith4@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:59 Subject: Re: Papermeier Braillex ELBA note taker > these companies need to lower there prices > they out ragiously raise them and it sucks. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list