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agreed
Supply and demand aren't a black and white thing, it's a sliding scalre.
More likely the knockoff will be $180 and comes with a knockoff warranty- we make it for $40 incl. parts and labor and sell it for $180, so if it breaks we'll just send you a new one and we're still ahead financially.
What if the knockoff isn't $180 but is $80? Under that condition who would buy the $200 one? If the thing sucks you could literally buy a spare and still be ahead.
But in this case they are buying new Pis and modifying them, so their costs have to be higher than the official ones. It's just weird to me that there is any market for that at all.