The original price from Majsta on this thread was €90 however a far larger FPGA was required to accomodate the full CPU core and additional features despite this Majsta honoured the price for those that had already paid. The price on the thread was increased to €120, since then the RAM on the board was doubled, this also doubled the bandwidth and a micro SD connector was added in addition to the HDMI connector not found on verson 1. Despite all this the thread price has been honoured by Majsta. This price was clearly not sustainable so when the pre-orders closed and Kipper2k took over new order requests the price was set at €150 and was displayed on Kipper2K's site, this was the advertised price you may have expected to pay when you emailed Kipper2k and lots of orders were filled at that price. As people began to get their boards and word spread of just how good it was interest in it exploded and the queue of those wanting one has grown beyond what any one person building, testing and doing all the admin can manage so building it has been outsourced to a professional board house. The change in production and other factors necessitate a price rise to €250 which under current exchange rates is about US$279 (the currency used for parts purchasing). I assume the rest of the price requested is for insured shipping.
I know people are disappointed not to get the board at one of the lower prices but nobody has taken your money so you are free to walk away if it's too much for you. There was no alternative if production was to continue so if anybody must decline please do so politely as Kipper2k does not deserve the hate mail and abuse he has received.
