A motor turns a curtain into an appliance, with a power source, a radio protocol and a hub that all have to keep working for years. What drives the price, what the listing leaves out, and where a smart shade stops being smart.
One merchant sells the same roller shade motor through two different product pages. The second sells motorised shades, three of them, and not one is a roller. The third sells no roller shade at all, although eighteen of its colour-grouping collections are named after roller shade fabrics and every one is empty. That is the … Read more
How much extra is top-down bottom-up? It is the reasonable question, and it has no single answer. On one merchant’s site, on one day, the same mechanism on four of its own fabrics was charged at thirty-five dollars, at fourteen, at nothing at all, and once at fifty dollars less than the plain version. Those … Read more
Seven motorized shades and one motorized curtain track, from two merchants, were read on their own product pages on 22 August 2026, alongside a third merchant that turns out to sell no motorisation at all. The listed prices run from $39.99 to $205.99, and that range explains almost nothing, because on seven of those eight … Read more
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