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Great poll, however since Raspberry Pi is a charity, they don't discount their products [1]. We can put together a package deal/starter kit if people are interested. But the cost of the Pi will be pegged at $35. Here is an example: http://www.adafruit.com/products/955
[1] We’ve got an exclusive distribution arrangement with RS and Farnell; what resellers are doing is buying in bulk from them (which reduces shipping costs to nearly nothing) and selling on. You don’t need any special licence to resell, and they’re very happy to sell on to resellers. Unfortunately, because of the way the pricing model (and the fact that we’re a charity) works, you won’t be able to get a discount for bulk – what most resellers are doing is using it as a way to sell high-margin peripherals and so on. (http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs)
Let me know if you guys see any kits that are better. Most likely max discount would be $55 for the Adafruit Kit + $35 for the Raspberry Pi (no discount for reasons stated above) at 20 units. Generally you would need to order 100 by yourself in order to get a discount for $55 per unit. MSRP is $69.95.
We would most likely have to cap it around 50-60 units since it looks like there are currently only 70 in stock.
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox-1
Basically what happened (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) was the kit was customized both during the voting process (full kit, pcb only, partial kit, etc) and upon checkout (what type of Cherry switches, enclosure, etc). I believe @andy is referring to this type of customization, but that is why I asked him to clarify.
But yeah, Let's make our own custom Massdrop Raspberry Pi Kit. And if we offered just the RSP's by itself, it would not go down in price.