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That will be perfectly fine just as soon as I can buy more than one at a time. As long as the sales are one offs, its not a $10 device yet. I hope it will be.
by noonespecial 10y ago
That will be perfectly fine just as soon as I can buy more than one at a time.
As long as the sales are one offs, its not a $10 device yet. I hope it will be. There was something decidedly fishy about the "$5" Zero that has never ever been available more than one at a time.
I'm not saying that there was a secret conspiracy, but if you happen to be a distributer who makes his margin on each transaction, not each unit, and your source is chronically short, a de facto Zero situation emerges where you make far more on the limited supply available by forcing extra transactions. Sadly this largely negates the purpose of offering an ultra-cheap item in the first place.
- godelski 10y agoI would guess that they were one at a time because demand has been so high. By the time I was finally able to order a zero I lost interest in it and started using other boards. The question is if you want to get it into as many hands as possible or to people that are going to use a lot of them. But also people bulk order and sell at a markup. Stuff like this[1] still isn't uncommon ($23 for a pi zero on Amazon). At that markup I'd rather just buy a pi, arduino, or whatever. At $5 if it is a zero vs a msp430 I'm getting the zero for ease of use. [1] https://smile.amazon.com/Raspberry-Zero-v1-3-Development-Board/dp/B01L3IU6XS/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1488299662&sr=1-4&keywords=raspberry+pi+zero https://smile.amazon.com/Raspberry-Zero-v1-3-Development-Boa...
- tacon 10y agoThere was a brief period at my local Microcenter, after the supply started to catch up with demand and before the "limit 1 at $5" policy. I bought five of the hundred or so in the locked plastic box. I think I could have bought twenty, all at $5/each.