So apparently RepRapDiscount is charging ~$200 for their most basic LCD controller. According to them a large amount of the people who purchase these end up returning them because they don’t know how to set them up, Apparently this in turn costs them enough money to warrant raising the price to a ridiculous amount instead of changing either their return policy or providing an explanation of the requirements for setting up the display.
I love RepRapDiscount and they do have high quality hardware, but this is just stupid, their solution doesn’t make any sense, they won’t sell any of their product in the price is that high, unless they’re doing this as a way to deter people from buying it so that they’ll buy the more expensive alternatives they’ve just released.