Crazy price! Are they joking? That's just a stupid price. Who would pay that. No thanks!
1829888
Well what did you think it would cost?Cell phone are cheap because it is ofset by the contract you buy.I will buy it.
1829889
I totally completely agree... I paid under $150 for my Dell Axim PDA on Ebay and use Skype (the latest version, not the pre-loaded one that will come on the phone) all the time. In fact, my PDA is SMALLER than the phone is and does like a million more things as it's got Windows installed...Make the price $99.95 and you got yourself a heck of a deal!!!
1829890
Actually the price is fairly high. I recently bought a Dell PDA with wi-fi built in for $179.00 and loaded skype (free of course) I make my skype calls now including skype-out - PLUS have full capabilities of web browsing and pda functionality, from hundreds of hotspots around town. That netgear model is worth maybe $79-$99 at most.
1829891
I agree entirely with this price being too high. Hopefully early adoptors won't pull the trigger and buy this.This phone is actually a no go fro 2 reasons. 1 is the price and 2 no support for WPA. WEP is no longer a viable wireless security implementation. Everyone knows that. I will not degrade my network security just to use this phone.Those of you comparing this to a cell phone are way off target. Cell-phones have other radios and technologies that this thing simply doesn't have. Realistically, you could get a wifi pocketpc and dedicate it as your phone and get a better deal, since the PDA can do soo much more. NETGEAR needs to bring this to the 99-150 range, support WPA and I'll be 1st in line. I agree entirely with this price being too high. Hopefully early adoptors won't pull the trigger and buy this.This phone is actually a no go fro 2 reasons. 1 is the price and 2 no support for WPA. WEP is no longer a viable wireless security implementation. Everyone knows that. I will not degrade my network security just to use this phone.Those of you comparing this to a cell phone are way off target. Cell-phones have other radios and technologies that this thing simply doesn't have. Realistically, you could get a wifi pocketpc and dedicate it as your phone and get a... » Read More I agree entirely with this price being too high. Hopefully early adoptors won't pull the trigger and buy this.This phone is actually a no go fro 2 reasons. 1 is the price and 2 no support for WPA. WEP is no longer a viable wireless security implementation. Everyone knows that. I will not degrade my network security just to use this phone.Those of you comparing this to a cell phone are way off target. Cell-phones have other radios and technologies that this thing simply doesn't have. Realistically, you could get a wifi pocketpc and dedicate it as your phone and get a better deal, since the PDA can do soo much more. NETGEAR needs to bring this to the 99-150 range, support WPA and I'll be 1st in line. « Show Less
1829892
Get real buddy. I agree with the rest of the people here, for $250 (and as a 'deal'), thats expensive for Skype standards. Regular cell phones WITHOUT plans cost around the same price range.Yes, the price tag is probably 'fair' because of the 'new' technology in it. Give it six months, I'm sure we will see some type of price drop. Its like when Plasma TVs came out on the market, expensive at first, price will drop later on.
1829893
Stupid price for stupid skype phone... Netgear please... It's just a Skype ONLY, not a cellphone... so make it Skype's price !!! You guy can have a PDA with Skype soft installed and enjoy with thousands of feature for under $300, so make your choice, I will go with a PDA rather than this deal.
1829894
Cell phone prices are set artificially high because of that subsidy. You can get five or six months of pretty good cell phone service for the price of the Skype phone, and even the worst cell phone service will allow you to roam around a lot more than the Skype phone will. I'm afraid that Skype and Netgear have made a terrible error in setting the price point this high. Skype's main selling point is its price, and this price will mean that only the gadget freaks will buy this. Which is too bad, this could have been a revolutionary product if Skype and Netgear could have found a way to price the phone more reasonably. Cell phone prices are set artificially high because of that subsidy. You can get five or six months of pretty good cell phone service for the price of the Skype phone, and even the worst cell phone service will allow you to roam around a lot more than the Skype phone will. I'm afraid that Skype and Netgear have made a terrible error in setting the price point this high. Skype's main selling point is its price, and this price will mean that only the gadget freaks will buy this. Which is too bad, this could have been a revolutionary product if Skype and Netgear could have found a... » Read More Cell phone prices are set artificially high because of that subsidy. You can get five or six months of pretty good cell phone service for the price of the Skype phone, and even the worst cell phone service will allow you to roam around a lot more than the Skype phone will. I'm afraid that Skype and Netgear have made a terrible error in setting the price point this high. Skype's main selling point is its price, and this price will mean that only the gadget freaks will buy this. Which is too bad, this could have been a revolutionary product if Skype and Netgear could have found a way to price the phone more reasonably. « Show Less
1829895
you are right but there is a market disconnect here. with a wireless carrier, the price of the phone is dwarfed by the annual expense of subscribing to the service. as the other posters indicated, this is not the case with skype. the whole point of using skype is its low cost.i would love to have one of these but the morons at netgear priced it incorrectly.
2281079
The company can change the price of the item whenever they want. They probably looked at their competitors, and similiar 14W chargers, and adjusted. That's the world of capitalism, daddy-o.
22300
You got that right. I don't know what they heck they are trying to pull here. Last time I bought it I think I paid about $10.93 for 4x10oz. Now $22+!!!! Outrageous!
672272
I'm not sure what you're seeing or where you're getting that price. The price on this item is $10.98.
2014908
I was wondering the same thing!!! I researched this model and was going to purchase it from Amazon, but heck no at this price!! It is on th Food Saver website for $200.96. There has to be a mistake, or someone is trying to rip people off!
1465624
I would not buy it here. Go to the actual website and buy it there. They also offer free shipping. I don't understand the up-charge either.
1758845
Not any more it doesn't... Two years after you asked your question, the price has gone up to $8.70.[If only I'd known, I could have bought thousands of them and cornered the market!]
1167884
Sorry, but this price is much lower than my cost. I am not sure how anyone can offer it at that price.
915754
No. Sorry to see the huge price increase - nearly double of what I paid 3 ½ months ago! I don't think I'd want to spend that amount.
96762
I was looking at this too and see that if you click on other suppliers, it shows $8.00. I will have our team look into why it is showing a different price.
2002206
I reported it last year (August 2007). At least they have the right product now. Hopefully they'll figure out the price someday. ;-)
1418795
Oh, whoops! I thought you said how much would it cost to buy it. Not 40$!!! Never mind that!!!
1224721
It was probably offered for $9.71 by a 3rd party seller who did not include the shipping costs into their list price. This annoys me when it happens too.
1790928
Price gouging I refuse to pay twice the price of anything. Tin Hortons and this third party seller should be ashamed of themselves.
598886
I agree. Why would anyone (I can't imagine anyone this ill informed) buy this at this price?
1588914
Yeah, big price increase. Guess I'm back to finding some other source. Really a big disappointment.
1499335
That happened to me also, except the price doubled...from $59 to $108! Sounds like "bait and switch" to me. Good reason to go back to the old system.