Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?

[gamerminstrel]

On the new preorder page for Pinephone KDE Community Edition, one can find such text:

Community price: $149.99

(Retail price: $249)


Similarly, for the convergence package:

Community price: $199.99

(Retail price: $299)

I hope Pine64 addresses this sooner than later, because this is confusing and might not reflect well upon the company.

I know as of right now the prices they settled on for pinephones are breaking even, plus $10 that goes to the community that each batch of pinephones was made for.

The only way I could find this acceptable is if there is some agreement in the works to get the pinephone in physical stores at that new price point, since physical stores need to make a profit to exist.