I bought this camera my Junior year of high school many years ago for $45 on Newegg.com....but if you haven't noticed during the pandemic people who could work at home had to go get a Webcam to work remotely so not only did these things get sold out from Logitech.com for $75 in 10 seconds by reseller bots and sold for $200+ on ebay and Amazon ....why? Because supply and demand. People had to have them for "Zoom" calls and needed it asap or they couldn't work.
But the shittiest thing is not only did scalpers ruin prices for PC peripherals, but even Logitech made new packaging and naming schemes for the exact same old product, and even webcams that were cheaper models than this.
For example : Logitech c922e (In a brand new looking packaging that looked completely different than the c922x /c922x Pro/ c922/c920 etc)
The "E" at the end of the model literally stands for "environmentally friendly packaging". But was selling for significantly more than other models until people finally found out after wasting hundreds just for a decade old 2 megapixel Webcam when they could just use their cell phone.
This was like 2 years ago before people even had any thoughts of chip shortages and supply chain issues.
Good news about all of that: Amazon recently got a class action lawsuit against them for price fixing (you can use extensions like "honey" to see the last 3 months or more of the prices of Amazon items and they will literally go up $50-75 and then drop back down every few days. Anyways they now have to check in with Washington,DC every year for 5 years for audits and that's why you don't see the "Prime" logo on items sold by Amazon since they were making it where they always had cheaper prices than people who sold items on Amazon/had online stores.
Will you refund the poor 116 people who paid an inflated price for this? As others have noted this is selling right now in the $70 range and below. This is nothing but false advertising in make this seem like a deal when it is not.
For your assertion of "false advertising" please cite the inaccurate information posted. Just because something is cheaper elsewhere in no way makes it false advertising. Grocery store A sells apples for 99 cents, grocery store B sells apples for $1.19. If both advertise the price, with no mention of a discount from a previously listed price, there is no false advertisement. People who bought their apples at Store B are in no way entitled to a discount. I'm not saying anyone should pay this amount for this item but your assertion is absurd.
I thought the purpose/intent of Drop was to use the collective purchasing power of its membership to entice manufacturers to provide products at either a pricing advantage or performance advantage, I see neither here and:
A) wonder what other products we have been "duped" ?
B) wonder if I can, in clear conscience, maintain my membership ?
Shame on you Drop.
I think Drop was wrong by overinflating the price of the Logitech C922. When you can right now buy the Elgato Facecam for $139 or the Avermedia PW513 (4K) for $148 or the Logitech Brio 4K for $129, yes that is right you can buy the Logitech flagship 4k webcam for $19 more and have them delivered in 3 days from Amazon than drop is charging for this webcam. And I miss the good old days of Drop when you hoped enough members would sign up for a buy-in hoping you could get a reduced price, but nowadays it seems Drop is nothing more than a drop shipping company. I guess their name Drop has a new meaning now...