★価格￥89,800、注：CLF価格：$850=発注時レートから￥89,800に致します

日本語の説明はこのCLFメンバー宛英文（？）の下に有ります。
Dear CLF / International SF-V owners / customers,

I heard that someone complained to Mike= ARCmania regarding my shop's pricing , as I am selling SF-V at "LOW" price on my shop.
I wish to clarify this complain is inadequate complain based on misunderstanding, gross price on CLF vs net price on my shop and lack of knowledge of developing history of SF-V. The price difference is based on difference of the exchange rate in long developing time. I should say my price is adequate based on developing history.

1 : My shop's price 89,800JPY is based on the exchange rate when I made payment long time ago. I covered approx half of developing fee. Also, I made some comittements of future PO based on that eachange rate.
2 : Original target price was "approx US$700". I announced to my loyal customers the price will be approx US$700. (More than 25,000 page views.) Therefore I could ask US$800 include upgrade cost of $100 as maximum on my shop.
3 : CLF pre-pay at US$750 started after Mike's developing cost increased by technical dificulty of SF-V (or OSTAR). But, obviously, I MUST keep promised price of $700. Does not matter I make loss or not. (This price 89,800JPY will make this project break even if I could sell all inventories. But does NOT include costs of some comittements. I have potential loss on SF-V. Therefore Mike should be in red account.)
4 : My shop's price is net price. Customers must pay shipping and handling fee in case he/she choose the secure payment method. But CLF price is gross price.
5 : This kind of price differemce happens quite often on Japanese customers whom made pre-pay on CPF. Sometimes Japanese cutomers pay higher pre-pay price than retail price due to difference of exchange rate. But I have not heard any Japanese CPFers complained about price difference. Obviously this price could have been much higher than CLF price if developping cost became lower than expectations later, or exchage rate was higher when I made payment.
6 : This is quite rare case that Japanese customers could have benefit of exchange rate and announced price. US / International customers have benefits on most of case due to steep overhead in Japan and Japanese high tax , (yet poor social service). US customers have had benefits of low tax / overheads of U.S.A..

So, why can't you accept this very rare case that Japanese flashaholics could have benefit of exchange rate.
Also, I am sure US / International flashaholics pay less than Japanese flashaholics in annual payment, because most of finest lights are made in U.S.A..
Exp : I had to pay US$999.35 at 3% higher exchange rate (Bank's remittance rate TTS is steep.) for 2 pcs Don's light total net price was US$850. It means Don got only 83% of my cost. So, Mike received much less than your price of $850 for sure, even he use EMS instead of FedEx of Don's case.

Therefore please e-mail me if you have any complains / questions about pricing. Please NEVER complains to Mike.

My E-mail account : info"at"pro-light.jp The e-mail tittle must include "SF-V" for filtering . ("at" is @)
Also, I am willing to explain on phone. Please note your phone number, time zone and preferable time to have a call. Obviously, "Talk" is better than e-mail, as faster transaction and tone of voice should work better to understand each other.
(Well known City name on your time zone will help me a lot to check accurate time on internet.)

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

Chiharu Inukai
Pro Light Japan
+81(0)3-3585-5750
In case you are willing to call me : Please call 11:00-23:00 at Japanese standard time (+9 GMT) .