I just want to correct him, because he thought, the price is depend on lower exchange rates or something like that. And about the demand, that is exactly the reason, why they are overpriced. In your bar example: If you have a bar in a area with high demand and low infrastructure around (near a mine for example), you can charge 1000% for a beer because you use the dependancy of the worker/miner, usually is this impossible, in a normal area you will not got more then 300%.

So you sample is crap, because for 2 reason: Nobody buy a miner for his fun or to enjoy the time, like to drink a beer in a bar. Every Miner will buyed for 1 reason, to bring a little profit. Second reason, if they would charge a profit of 300% and sale the miner for 20-30USD, the price would be reasonable, for BOTH so you can call it win/win, for factory AND buyer! 1000% is simple greedy, and only 1 party got win, the factory. The buyer lost, it's a win/lost

The price for production is impossible 8-12USD as i wrote: 1 Chip Batch sale for 99BTC, 10.000pcs. This mean, each chip cost the factory much lesser then this sale price of 0.0099 each or USD about $6. If they calculate the chips at the same rate like the USB and they charge 1000%, each chip cost lesser then $1, so i guess when i say $5 for the chip is much higher then the real cost!

And 1 USB PCB you got finish developed for 1000 or more units fur  much lesser then $2 in china ALL INCLUSIVE! With my price range of 6-7USD i am much overrated, so this price is for sure INCLUDE all side costs!

Don't calculate with US prices or where you came from, i stay in Asia and i know the production cost of electronic here. Believe me, 1000% are at least the profit for the USB Miner. And we talk about Group sale, not end customer sale!

This deal is impossible to be for anyone profitable because there is no space for anyone to calculate with profit, after the factory charge 1000%. On the end every end customer will pay much much overprice, and will never see ROI, even because this reseller price is impossible to get ROI!

Sure you could say: up to them, why they bought so expensive. But in my eye is that not the idea behind a group buy or BTC philosophy. There are enough greedy player in normal capitalism. The BTC or the miner community should keep together and work against this greedy behaviour.