Why is the Tellstick so incredibly expensive?
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:45 am
Hey there
I've been following your brilliant product since 2007 and have always wanted to buy one yet been discouraged by the prohibitively high price of your little dongle. Thus I check back about once a year to see if - as with all other electronics products - prices would fall over time.
Strangely this doesn't seem to happen with your product. In fact the price seems to only go up and up and I'm at a bit of a loss as to understand why that is so. I noticed that you have moved to distributing only through multiple layers of middlemen ("distributors" AND "retailers") while the rest of the online world has gone towards centralised distribution and I'm wondering if these multiple layers of middlemen are perhaps charging a high markup on their "distribution service" to the consumer while providing little of actual value?
Anyway all the best to you and your product. I hope that I will one day win the lottery and be able to afford the stick or alternatively that you may sell so many that you will be able to lower prices.
Regards,
A home automation enthusiast
I've been following your brilliant product since 2007 and have always wanted to buy one yet been discouraged by the prohibitively high price of your little dongle. Thus I check back about once a year to see if - as with all other electronics products - prices would fall over time.
Strangely this doesn't seem to happen with your product. In fact the price seems to only go up and up and I'm at a bit of a loss as to understand why that is so. I noticed that you have moved to distributing only through multiple layers of middlemen ("distributors" AND "retailers") while the rest of the online world has gone towards centralised distribution and I'm wondering if these multiple layers of middlemen are perhaps charging a high markup on their "distribution service" to the consumer while providing little of actual value?
Anyway all the best to you and your product. I hope that I will one day win the lottery and be able to afford the stick or alternatively that you may sell so many that you will be able to lower prices.
Regards,
A home automation enthusiast