It's still baffling to me that we give Raspberry Pi all this credit for making a $5 computer when there is nowhere you can actually exchange $5 for this $5 comp

It's still baffling to me that we give Raspberry Pi all this credit for making a $5 computer when there is nowhere you can actually exchange $5 for this $5 computer and it has remained that way since launch. Being reliably in stock at the alleged price isn't a nice-to-have side benefit, it's the only thing there is when you claim to have vastly reduced the price of something. Unless someone can point to a US distributor who actually has one of these things in stock for $5, color me unimpressed.