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I don't know what you're seeing on Amazon, but there is a lot of cheap crap out there that, unfortunately, doesn't work reliably enough or sound good enough to use in a performance setting. Audio Technica 3000-series [1] is about the cheapest thing that's decent (my middle school operated 16). Note the frequency band options.
WiFi in particular is not designed for a 100% stable connection with low latency and no jitter, and good luck getting it to do that. You can power-cycle your laptop's WiFi every few hours; you can't lose the lead singer in a musical or the pastor in a church service. There are digital, frequency-agile wireless systems like ULX-D [2] which are a little better at dealing with crowded RF landscapes, but this is still low-middle tier. UHF-R is a tier above that, starting around $2000 per system. The gear for really challenging RF environments is Shure Axient, and you can't even get pricing on that without talking to a high-end certified distributor, but anecdotally the transmitters are about $3,000 and a dual-channel receiver is $7,500.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATW-3131BD-Wireless-Lav...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Shure-ULXD24-B87A-G50-Handheld/dp/B008...
[3] http://www.shure.com/americas/products/wireless-systems/uhfr...
It's tempting to think of the problems in fields other than your own as trivial, but please don't fall into that trap. You don't want to hear a play through Skype on iPhones (which is a moot point, because you wouldn't anyway). Reliable RF audio that sounds good is a hard/expensive game and eliminating TV whitespace fucks over people who are playing in the lower/middle tiers.