Hi everyone.
Ok so I'm just going to get straight to the EU pricing here. I'm not going to lie, reading these responses makes me both kinda sad and angry. I only had 2 hours of sleep this night because of M0110 and uni finals so that probably doesn't help lol, but both me and especially John, David and Yuliia from Mykeyboard pulled a really late night yesterday to bring this EU proxy to the market.
The price is higher than the US, this is obvious. This is not what we wanted, and I completely understand if people say this is higher than expected. This is the case for me too.
What I absolutely can't come close to understand, is the people saying this is a rip-off. Our margins on the EU proxy are far smaller than on the US side. We're dealing with
single digit numbers of profit per person here. There is no way we can get this lower (making no profit would be dangerous since we need something to fall back to in case remachining is needed). The EU cost is mainly caused by 3 things: 21% tax on revenue, a higher (4%) PayPal fee and +-30 shipping per board to the EU even in bulk.
If you really think we're ripping you off I more than welcome you to ask John for shipping quotes to your country. Hell, we would actually make more profit if everyone bought from the US proxy. The EU proxy makes very little sense economically, which we accepted because we wanted to help people get the board in the EU. This is why the "ripping off" comments are especially infuriating. When ordering from say Belgium via the US proxy, you would not only be looking at 21% import tax but also with a 20 administration fee and shipping in the +$50 range.
I don't get how the comparison of upgrades make sense either. Tax obviously is applied to those too. Yes, when adding tax you still have about 5 left. Believe it or not, Mykeyboard is a business and businesses tend to like to make at least some profit. The slightly higher margin there is to compensate for the dip on the base kit I described earlier.
Sorry if this comes off as very defensive, but frankly it's a bit hurtful to see people react this way after you actually cut profits to offer it to them. Like I said if you think that importing directly is cheaper feel free to contact John about a direct import from the US.
With this over, I want to get to the lighter side. Sales have been doing well and I'm super excited to finally launch this product. Thank you to all the amazing people who have supported this product. Like I have said before, I promise you won't be disappointed when you get this thing in your hands.
Typed from my M0110
Jan
