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Home Automation for kids Ultimate pressie Xmas

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    #32
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Cherry_Cola wrote: »
    It's great value for what it is. What has expense got to do with something not being a bargain? :confused:

    Err... I'm so confused, the above is horrible value for money. Costs £800, but there is well less then €100 (probably closer to €50) worth of equipment in this set!

    Are folks overestimating how much HA stuff costs?! IFTTT is nice, but not impressive, every HA device pretty much supports that. The rest of it is a couple of super cheap sensors, LCD screen, etc. We are talking about stuff that costs almost nothing from China.

    It looks like a neat little set, but massively overpriced.


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    #33
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,143 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    bk wrote: »
    Err... I'm so confused, the above is horrible value for money. Costs £800, but there is well less then €100 (probably closer to €50) worth of equipment in this set!

    Are folks overestimating how much HA stuff costs?! IFTTT is nice, but not impressive, every HA device pretty much supports that. The rest of it is a couple of super cheap sensors, LCD screen, etc. We are talking about stuff that costs almost nothing from China.

    It looks like a neat little set, but massively overpriced.


    Maybe i'm missing something but is it not the point that a set that costs €800 on amazon.co.uk can be got for $300 on amazon.com?


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    The high horse brigade
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Maybe i'm missing something but is it not the point that a set that costs €800 on amazon.co.uk can be got for $300 on amazon.com?

    It's not worth $300, never mind €800


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    ohnonotgmail
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    It's not worth $300, never mind €800


    Maybe its not but people complaining about the price of €800 are missing the point.


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    #36
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,361 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    It's not worth $300, never mind €800

    Agreed. So would it be the case that if you used it to make a crappy sounding MP3 player the remaining kit parts would be pretty much redundant while the MP3 player was assembled? 1K sounds crazy money for a crappy MP3 player :eek:

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    TheDriver
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    I'm closing this one as its obvious this requires no further BA discussion


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