The prices of the SharkRF products vary wildy recently. I had contact with Akos and Norbert about this and indeed, they both admitted that they use ‘dynamic pricing’. This is a marketing concept, that is quite new and legally still in a greyzone, apart from the USA, where the company ‘LiveNation’, who owns all the concert ticket sales there and in most other countries, use ‘dynamic pricing’ to drive the prices up to unaffordable levels. Live Nation was ordered to pay millions in fines. Here in Australia, the ‘dynamic pricing’ tactic, where the consumer never knows if he/she buys a product for its real price, is currently under investigation after airlines use it to sell tickets for their flights far above the normal level. SharkRF has in their Terms and Conditions that they use Dynamic Pricing, so they are open about it. This does not take away, the the Australian government sees this form of selling products as a major risk to the buyers, and discourages customers to avoid this highly disputing and potentially misleading practice.
As always: buyer beware and know what you get into buying a SharkRF product. These Hungarian guys in Estonia are glass hard sellers of a (good) product and would go over your body to earn a $ more. For them it is not about HAM or radio enthusiasm, but with dubious practices making more and even more money.
