A supplier in Europe will have other costs than the freight!
Stock keeping, CE approvals (expensive!), VAT, support.....
They also have office cost, employees and other costs.
I'm always prepared to pay some premium for local support and not having to wait. But of course there are limits. Try buying one board from USA with freight & insurance to UK. See if you can get a freight agent that can deliver it to you for $41. I'll bet you won't have it next week then.
But I guess you buy your milk from the farmer and your fish on the docks then?
I see your point, and think the markup may be steep. But if it carry a CE mark I do know what that costs! And I can tell you you need to sell a good number of drives to make that cost invisible to the customer. |