A note on our pricing

We sometimes get asked why our products are priced the way they are so we wanted to take a moment to explain what goes into bringing a product to market and why our products cost what they do.

We are a Business
I want to express that while we love making designs & objects we are a business with one of the goals to make a profit. We have staff that rely on us for their income and we pay rent, utilities, insurance & taxes among other standard business expenses. We also use much of the business income to feed back into the business and develop new products. Whatever is leftover is what myself and my wife live off - we have our own bills to pay and groceries to buy just like everyone else.

More than just raw materials
It's important to remember that a product is more than just the sum of its individual parts. It takes weeks, months or sometimes even years to research and develop a product ready for market. This development often involves building prototype after prototype and investing in tools and machinery to build the prototypes. Countless hours of labor have gone into the development and production of each piece. Sometimes the most simple looking products are the most complex to develop. In such cases, the price of a product is more of a reflection of the development cost than the material cost itself.

Often Handmade in Small Batches
We are a small studio in New Zealand we make many of our products in-house and by hand. Much of what we make is made to order or made in small batches of just a few units at a time. This is an expensive way to manufacture but it does allow us to produce a very high-quality and unique product.

We have options
Many of our product lines have several options at different price points. If the Speaker Cloud, our premium unit with all the features, is out of budget we have other cloud versions which are priced much lower.

We are people too
If you reach out to us and ask nicely we will often give you a discount code to use, we just ask you be considerate of the points above. We understand that it's frustrating when a product you really like is out of budget but please remember there are real people on the other end of your comments, emails and phone calls.