• tyrant@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The registered retailers are selling them at normal cost I think? Or I got ripped off and didn’t notice 🤔

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      10 months ago

      So what is the price supposed to be? I’m seeing ~90€ for the 8gb variant

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          10 months ago

          Yeah okay, that is way out of line, are there really scalpers, that buy raspis? 50 bucks for shipping one of those sounds like a decent business model … But scalpers suck nonetheless

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            10 months ago

            Yes plenty of scalpers were mass buying boards to increase the shortage. Now adafruit requires an authentified account to buy them with a quantity limit.

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        10 months ago

        £79 is official RPi5 8GB price in the UK. So €90 sounds correct.

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      10 months ago

      There’s plenty available for sale at non-gouged prices since production ramped back up again. Last 6 months have been fine.

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      10 months ago

      Supply and demand? If you flood the market with stock, everyone can sell them and out bid each other until it’s as cheap as it can get while still turning a profit. That’s competition.

      The fact that there isn’t enough stock is why it’s so easy to price gouge…