Anthony, The reason you have to pay so much for products like the Stream is that so few of them are sold. If you could sell a hundred million of them over the life cycle of the product, then the price would come down. As it is, Humanware has sold about ten thousand, and they consider that a success. With those numbers, you can't begin to cover the costs of manufacturing with a $50 price tag. I know that's not what you want to hear, but it's economic reality. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 08:02 Subject: Re: breaking news! > --=======AVGMAIL-4992CC580000======= > Content-Type: text/plain; > format=flowed; > charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Technology should b a lot more reasonable. > > I mean someone could buy a MP3 player or get one for free with almost > every > feature in the world and, we need to pay $300.00 and up for a VR stream. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:42 AM > Subject: Re: breaking news! > > >> Howard, there's everything wrong with that. We have expenses unique to >> our >> blindness such as maintaining adaptive technology, transportation that in >> many cases involves taxi cabs to and from work and other things. It is >> nearly impossible to bare those expenses and those of daily living with a >> minimum wage job. >> Harvey > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.234 / Virus Database: 270.10.20/1944 - Release Date: 02/10/09 > 17:44:00 > > --=======AVGMAIL-4992CC580000======= > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="=======AVGMAIL-4992CC580000=======" > > --=======AVGMAIL-4992CC580000======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Description: "AVG certification" > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.234 / Virus Database: 270.10.21/1945 - Release Date: 02/10/09 > 1= > 7:44:00 > > --=======AVGMAIL-4992CC580000=======-- > --=======AVGMAIL-4992CC580000=======-- >