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Think about it, for mass produced stuff, the manufacturer already sells in bulk to plenty of retailers. Those other retailers likely buy in quantities even larger than the minimum for the lowest price of this drop.
Group buys have never been for generating profit. Its usually one really nice person in some niche community who decides to organize it for a tiny tiny side profit, if for any profit at all. The whole point was to either get something custom created, or to avoid the price hikes by the middle man.
Massdrop is probably too big of a company to be operating on small profit margins. So unless the manufacturers give Massdrop an unusually high discount, we'll keep seeing only marginally discounted prices. Everything I've bought from Massdrop so far is usually only 10-20% cheaper than what I could find elsewhere :|
Massdrop is becoming that middleman group buys exist to avoid.
Like you said, group buy is not for profit. MD is suppose to be providing "group buy" service to its members. That means much lower than retail price and somewhat slow delivery time. However, people like us can buy directly from other vendors for the same price and way faster shipping than MD. If MD keeps running this "group buy" at retail price and slow shipping time, they won't last.
They are changing into a combination of "taobao agent" and "middle man" from the true "group buy" organizer. $$$$$.
Edit: To be fair, MD's other drops have pretty decent prices compared to retail. Whiskey balls, knives, audio related products, etc.