So what is the price supposed to be? I’m seeing ~90€ for the 8gb variant
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 agoThe issue isn’t the stock, it’s the price gouging.
WallEx@feddit.de 5 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 months ago
MSRP is $80 I believe
WallEx@feddit.de 5 months ago
That sounds okay with taxes and stuff
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 months ago
It’s “okay” but you can do much better for the price.
Aux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
£79 is official RPi5 8GB price in the UK. So €90 sounds correct.
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
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
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 5 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.
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.
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…
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 🤔
WallEx@feddit.de 5 months ago
Thought so too, but I’m not sure