Ugh, so the price went up for the 100 unit limited preorder? I was expecting ~$235 and they are ~$290 instead. Shipping and fees brought it to about $360 shipped to the US.
I didn't run the conversion till after I placed the order (dumb). I'd read $235 so many times that I had no doubt.
Edit: Yes I see the 230 euro note. I've been waiting over a year to order one so I hurried thru the check-out process, as the internet has conditioned me to do for limited items. I was expecting to be in around $300 total so it sucks, but the kids won't starve or anything.
In [LTT] forum someone also asked if and why the price looks different than the one in the campaign. I will quote my answer below:
The price is at the same level as we showed the predicted after-campaign-retail price, but it is still not a standard retail but "on-demand pre-order" like in indiegogo campaign (we have to be sure that everything works fine and that there is still a market for such product, before we go into standard retail). Because we are in Poland, Paypal forced us to use our account based in PLN, that is why we decided we will be showing PLN as our main paying currency.
But we understand where is the problem: very weak USD currency compared to EURO and Polish PLN now and during the indiegogo campaign.
Predicted after-campaign prices showed in the indiegogo campaign (link to the currency calculation table from the date of the indiegogo campaign start 10.01.2017):
970 PLN, €222 EURO, $235 USD
First after-campaign sale (current pre-orders) (link to the currency calculation table from yesterday 29.01.2018):
970 PLN, €234 EURO, $291 USD
It looks like on the date of the campaign start the EURO to USD ratio was 0,94 : 1 (for one dollar you could buy 94 euro cents), so it was nearly 1:1.
Today this EURO to USD ratio is 0,81 : 1 (for one dollar you can buy only 81 euro cents). That makes this difference you asked
What is more, some of our suppliers from outside EU, rised their prices in USD or even asked us if we can pay in EURO, because of currently weak dollar... and in the current situation we understand them. It also means that in the future the price of Sentry in USD can rise or goes down, depending how good will be the condition of US economy and the "power" of dollar (same goes for EURO, since Poland is still outside EURO-zone). From our side, we decided to keep our price from the campaign, and since PayPal forced us to use bank account in PLN, we will be showing it as our main currency (at least for now).
I hope this clarifies some things in this matter.