On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:58:08 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:


You cannot even buy the
components needed in decent quality for that price.

But that is unit one up individual component pricing which has a lot of
overhead in it.

Quite true, practically anything electronic is this way.
Ironically even an empty project case can cost more than
some junk from China which is a complete product inside a
custom case.