Three times the cost
I just joined the $100 laptop for $300 pledge over at pledgebank.
“I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300 but only if 100,000 other will too.”
The idea being that I get one laptop, and two are sent to the developing world on my behalf. Seems like a) a good cause and b) a good way to get my hands on a cheap laptop!
The count is way down at less than 3500 with only the remainder of October to go. I’m not hopeful that the pledge will be met, but, if there are 96,500 people like me out there who are holding out to the last minute then we might just make it.