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Of course, freedivers and spearos can only rejoice, given the fact that D4 costs twice as much as D3. I, for one, am going to look for non-Suunto alternatives and the few Russian spearos who have responded to my post on tetis.ru think the same way, some in expressing their discontent in much stronger language. I don't know whether Suunto would broaden its clientile base by that move in the West, but I am sure it is gonna lose quite a few customers in Russia/FSU.Suunto have made a sensible decision here ... As a FYI it's going to be priced (RRP) at 295 (GBP) for the UK market. Can't remember the USD price but I think it's around the 600 USD mark.
Not to everyone, and particularly not the amount of money that can be dumped into things like Marketing and R&D. Mining companies are a great example, they will sink tens of millions into investigating areas to mine, before deciding it's not worth their while and moving on.the price does include not only the cost of components, but other costs. It is kind of obvious, isn't it?
To Everyone Else: Any comments on pricing or functionality?
2 BennyB
I am sorry, but I don't really understand what do you mean by "not to everyone"
"so without much competition they can charge what they want." - if that is the case than Finland's and other countries' anti-monopoly services should investigate Suunto for that.