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I’ve also decided the real crime is that Acaia charges so much for their scale, when Felicita are able to sell the same tech so cheap. I’d have totally bought the lunar if it was under £199...probably.
Anyway, do you know what goes great with ethical conundrums? Coffee. So I am sitting in the garden, sun shining, drinking my pour over coffee, weighed upon an evil scale, questioning my lack of ethical consumption.
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the real crime is that Acaia charges so much
Assuming they designed it, who's paying for all their R&D and design costs, their time spent sourcing a manufacturer, their marketing?
Of course a stolen design is cheaper - the cheats have not spent $x developing the product, they've just duplicated the manufacturing part, the relatively easy bit. The fact that a Chinese knock-off still costs as much as it does is more of a crime.
Is there a half way house for me- a durable scale that isn't a knockoff and doesn't cost more than £50?
hippy
Yeah, but now I'm having the ethical conundrum of buying a knock-off unit versus spending £300 for scales that get used once or twice a day and that I've happily done without for the last year or two.
I normally pour into measuring glasses and transfer that to drinking vessels so I need the weighing of the output less than the weighing of the input. Having it all combined with timing though is nice.