Why is 2 GB USB so expensive?

ssal said:
Since the USPS signed the treaty with China/HongKong so they can ship stuff over here for close to nothing, the Chinese had been flooding the eBay/Amazon market with products with such ridiculous prices that I don't think they are making any money at all.

As an American consumer, I don't care if they are losing money.

In my previous life (I'm retired now), I was one of the biggest seller on eBay. The Chinese pretty much wiped me out. Look, it would cost me close to $10 to ship 2-3 pounds of product to a 100 miles radius, or $15-17 across the country. But USPS would do it for only $2 all the way, 10,000 miles away from China. I have a good friend working in the JFK Airport USPS entry post. He told me that all they are processing is tons and tons of small packages from China under the treaty price.

Thanks USPS. I hope whoever that bird brains in there, who came up with this treaty idea, die from slow painful death. You have done a good job betraying small businesses of this country (USA).
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I was just watching Narcos last night... made me laugh
 
With all tech there is a minimum cost of raw materials as already pointed out. The raw materials is nearly the same for any flash drive regardless of the capacity. The only reason high capacity ones cost more is to pay for the research, development, and new equipment required to make the new higher capacity ones. A 3.5" HDD for example has a minimum cost to manufacture of around $40 US, regardless of whether it's 500Gb or 4Tb capacity. So that $40 goes on the top, then whatever R&D costs they want to add gets tacked on, then a profit margin.

Believe it or not, they've probably long stopped making 2Gb NAND flash chips and are now just pulling from piles of stock from back when they were making them. Now, they are on to the bigger better ones and stockpiling those. They'll never sell them for much less than what it cost to manufacture. They'd rather just dump them and hope you'll end up buying a more expensive one.
 
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