OK, enough already with price gouging
I just received an offer, as I'm sure many others did, for "beta testing" of a new chocolate from a particular company. Cool. Get to sample 3 different types, provide feedback, yada, yada. Then I saw the price. For3 "shipments", eachcontainingtwo 25-gm samples (total of 150 gm, or about 5 oz.) it was about $50. That figures to be about $160 on a pound-for-pound basis. To me, that's really pushing it, especially given that the stuff is totally untested. For a "beta test" the price should be way less, since the whole point of a beta test is to get the kinks out of a developing product.
For this price, I can do far better, and for proven quality.
It was TCHO. I can respect their wanting to do a beta test. No problem with that at all and it makes sense -- but at that price? Seems a lot to charge for what is essentially R & D. Just my thought.
Care to share who's doing the beta test? The process was very successful for Tcho when they started out, back in late 2007, early 2008.