qwr
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Well parents are willing to buy their kids $1000 iphones and MacBooks so it's not entirely new.I'm already boycotting Gan for pricing-unrelated reasons so I don't care if their next cube is $500 or whatever.
I don't think I've explicitly mentioned my stance on cube pricing before, so here's my two million cents.
If cubes were targeted solely (or at least primarily) at an adult audience, then it absolutely makes sense for companies to price their products as high as however much people can pay for. Go ahead and crank up the price until profit is maximised! But speedcubing also has a huge child audience, and it seems kind of predatory that the one company that sponsors a huge proportion of the most famous fast cubers (Feliks, Max, Ruihang, etc.?) is also the one company that has much higher prices than all the other brands.
(Note: I know jack about sociology or economics or child psychology. For all I know, maybe this is acceptable behaviour to most of the world.)