I see a couple of members from the cancelled etherdongle coop posting in search of dongles. i can understand Todd not wanting to order
pcb, parts, and cases, sorting, packing and shipping when nobody is saving any money. I can imagine the time and effort it takes to run a coop.
However imho, it would have been nice to poll the members in the coop to see if they would want to buy just the pcb with surface mount ic's at whatever price a small order would have been. Then they could decide if they wanted to buy the pcb and order other parts and cases from Mouser or DigiKey or whoever. if you have invested in a bunch of smart pixels and need a dongle to run the show, you are probably willing to pay more to get one.
Unless the store is going to get some in pcbs stock, then i'm full of __it.
md