Comment on Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February

• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The issue isn’t the stock, it’s the price gouging.

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  • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thought so too, but I’m not sure

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  • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      MSRP is $80 I believe

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      • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That sounds okay with taxes and stuff

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s decent. They sell for over $130 on Amazon. And that’s the issue. You can check decent stock and prices here: raspistock.com

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      • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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  • Alimentar@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨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…

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