Originally Posted by Mig89

trust me, no company is going to give you deal on a product you can make money with and that company only gets that one time payment. remember, most electronics you're paying for the costs to develop the software not necessarily hardware itself. Just like any kit, the pricing is meant to cover manufacturing but also R&D work that was involved. Most of these products take yrs of development and investment before you can think of making any monies. Regardless, in this hobby you get what you pay for. You can buy knocks off that a particular manufacture has no idea what they're manufacture.