After making the Greensboro first run for these (when they were marked down from 175 to 150 to 125 to 100), I think they have kinda found themselves with a saturated market in raleigh. Its not cost effective (or may be prohibited) for them to transfer to stores outside of wake county. There were guys trying to make a killing selling them on
ebay at double the 150.00 they paid, but 300.00 plus another 100 is hard to swallow on a 3 year old cooler.
I was happy to pay my 100.00 a pop for them, and didnt mark up the cost for jason and james. work basically paid my mileage for one of mine, so i got two for 100.00...and those guys are gonna volunteer to help with my head gasket job
I think 75 to 100 is a very fair marked up price for them. I ran mine outside under my awning at oshkosh, and held a nice 2.7 degrees C. ran it outside under the awning in Charleston during the eclipse, and it held 4.7 degrees C. that was awesome in 94 degree high humidity heat. Where our campsite was located, i saw a guy who came in with us making ice walks each morning. I probably could have sold him our cooler for 200.00 on the spot, just from not having to walk 1/2 mile with 20 lbs of ice.
The only way to maximize the value on these would be a single purchase, and bring them to an event to distribute. to pack and ship a single cooler wouldnt be cheap.