Destinator SP Price

[Guest peterweg]

http://www.mipael.de/Demoshop/index.html?p...Fcat%3DWG000021

319,00 EUR =223.527 GBP One country

369.00 EUR =258.612 GBP Western Europe

Am I the only one to think this is too expensive (as are TomTom and Copilot)?

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Question is how do you put a cost in man hours for test and development?

[Guest peterweg]

Question is how do you put a cost in man hours for test and development?

Well, thats easy but this is a marketing issue. THey are charging at a premium over their own Western europe D3 product. Its 110gbp. Which is cheap, so they are charging 150 for the BT GPS + conversion to smartphone. I could buy the Mio 168 + european maps (from US) for $550 (296gbp + vat - or not) and get a better product , PDA and all the advantages of Pocket PC over Smartphone such as loads more software.

The market for Smartphones is at least 10x PDA's and growing unlike PDA's. Bigger marketplace means lower cost and higher sales. Looking at spending 260 quid on GPS software (I need European maps) makes the slight cost saving of running on it my phone seem like a false economy, especialy as I don't own it outright. Plus there is more choice on of route planners, together with mounts etc and other software (viamichellin for instance) .

[Guest NIGHTMARE]

Question is how do you put a cost in man hours for test and development?

it cost a min of £10s of millions up to billions (I work to these budgets everyday) to test and analyis every single drug found on the highstreet(thats not including development), does that mean if you are ill, and need tablets(any kind) you should be paying a min of £100s of pounds, no! I think not.

[Guest squall]

it cost a min of £10s of millions up to billions (I work to these budgets everyday) to test and analyis every single drug found on the highstreet(thats not including development), does that mean if you are ill, and need tablets(any kind) you should be paying a min of £100s of pounds, no! I think not.

but these companys still make money.

If you think something is to expensive dont buy it! simple as that :lol:

[Guest peterweg]

http://www.peripheralcorner.co.uk/product_...products_id/553

169+vat=198

European maps

http://www.peripheralcorner.co.uk/product_...products_id/554

189+vat