Looks like Ubiquiti has lost its steam and their pricing structure is extremely manipulative

[Arjun]

And their customer-base is dumb AF (mainly those that reside on Reddit) - seriously, you throw in memory and tariff surcharges, thinking that Ubiquiti is being transparent in their pricing structure - in reality, the price is what you see; overpriced, half-baked junk. Their firmware updates intentionally cripple their hardware intermittently in between stable and unstable firmware releases.
I would only recommend Ubiquiti Networking equipment (AVOID UniFi PROTECT garbage) - and that too, buy exclusively fanless switches, because they are generally built like a tank

Meanwhile see what retailers like Microcenter did recently in response to Ubiquti's price increases



Save your money and avoid their outdoor rated cameras - they suck, period.

 

[Arjun]

Kiss my @$$

 

[lewic]

I'm with you.... I have stopped buying from the Ubiquiti website a while back and only bought through Micro Center since they have the message about "No memory surcharges" but seems starting last week, it is not the case anymore.

While I can say that pricing at Micro Center is a little higher than the price listed on the Ubiquiti website, some of the items do end up being a better deal. There are even open box items that are even better. I literally bought a new ..... well.... open box... Cloudkey at a awesome price.

Man.... even the 1TB SSD itself inside the cloudkey is that price at Micro Center. But.... good while those deals lasted cause looking today.....

I guess they caught on to how good of a deal they were listing those open box as....

 

[lewic]

Kiss my @$$

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You didn't factor in the shipping charge on top of all that. LOL.