Presumably ACE LED has people who need to be paid as well, yet their product is lower cost. It makes me wonder whether ACE was trying to run a number on me, possibly selling me crappier diodes. I will clearly need to do more digging, but there are definitely slightly lower cost options than these quantum boards at the moment.
This will bring them into no-compete territory. They will dominate the market at this price. If the boards are upgraded to S6 as more diodes become available, they will be pulling 3-5% more luminous flux than they are currently. If you guys continue to upgrade boards with newer samsung diodes as they become available and you can maintain the price, you will be receiving at least twenty thousand of my dollars in the next two years.