I would imagine factories like waidea are buying them in much larger quantity and they are most likely made in China so there is no (or little) shipping involved. So that $32 chip for us might be more like $10 or less for them. I'm purely speculating of course. But in the scheme of things, how are they (the cloners) able to make a aluminum milled box, with chip, wires, labor, packaging, etc and sell it at LESS than $65, since we all know focal and fasttech are making profit on it too.
Kind of impressive. Then think how the authentic flask is more than $300.... Not sure if the genuine flask is milled in the USA or outsourced? That would make a huge price difference.
I said this a long time ago, if authentic products were priced with the mindset of low margins and high sales, no body would bother with the clones. But most authentic mods and attys are of the mind set of high margins low sales. I'd rather make $1 profit and sell a million units than make $100 profit and sell a thousand units. But maybe that's why I'm poor.
