For the lower cost products, the answer has been a clear no. It is up to us to do the market analysis. Will the extra exposure offset the higher price? Maybe, maybe not. But it adds a 2x price premium, so a V3 sold through distributors will either cost $1000, or it will have almost no margin ( very bad idea). All V2 Plus4 on Amazon are genuine with local US stock. Viewed in that light, a time to market edge of months or a year is completely insignificant and it would be foolish for us to chase that extra few months of sales, because all the money is made in the steady trickle of sales in the years that follow. There is no point releasing yet another cheap 6GHz VNA because the market is flooded with that already, and it takes many many years to recoup development costs. I'd delay the release by a year if it means I can get that dynamic range 10dB higher. V3 targets the higher end market and it is critical that we reach specs that will remain competitive for at least 5 years, and ensure all software support are completely polished and stable. What's relevant for this thread is that IMHO for NanoVNA v3 a better distribution than for the previous version(s) would be nice (as I still don't know today if my first copy of the v2 was (a redistributed) original one or a good copy and with the presumably significantly higher cost v3 I guess fewer people will be willing to take risks related to distribution). (Note: It's not uncommon to lose things even with EU origin in Feucht, happened already with me.) I don't want to hijack this thread with the details as I could write pages about the mess created by bureaucrats and anyhow it somewhat varies country by country (yes, there are such aspects) and totally uninteresting outside of EU. Naturally if there is something wrong with the electronic taxation information there is double taxing that can be claimed back but it's pretty much unclear what should happen if some item taxed at customs is lost on the route later on and so on. The non-taxed by default have higher handling cost that is progressive depending on the tax value. If it's paid fast/online smaller, otherwise higher. This means checking each of them at the customs, even that ones that are already taxed, and they have some handling cost (even the taxed ones). Some of the imports are taxed at the source, others are not.
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