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What baffles me is the rather bad availability of older versions. I'd have guessed that there's somewhere a warehouse full of Pi Zero Ws, but I can't buy one r

What baffles me is the rather bad availability of older versions. I'd have guessed that there's somewhere a warehouse full of Pi Zero Ws, but I can't buy one right now in Germany. There's a shop in Switzerland, but I'd have to pay import taxes and whatnot to get hold of that. So, let's try a Model 3 B+ then... Same as before: Official vendors are almost all sold out, one has some but it's 15 to 20 Euro above the recommended price... Something's broken in the reselling system if you ask me.

justincormack 5y ago
In case you didn’t hear, there is a global supply chain crisis and a chip shortage.
micheljansen 5y ago
It says on the official Raspberry Pi website: Are you discontinuing Zero and Zero W? No. We seldom discontinue products, even where they have been superseded by more modern product at the same price point. Zero 2 W is $5 more expensive than Zero W, and joins the Zero family as a third member. Note that Zero and Zero W are currently experiencing supply constraints in the context of the global semiconductor shortage. We hope that this will be resolved in 2022.
yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
> So, let's try a Model 3 B+ then... Same as before: Official vendors are almost all sold out, one has some but it's 15 to 20 Euro above the recommended price... An econ student would probably tell you that this is the market adjusting (or trying to) against the official price not matching the supply/demand intersection, so they're only available at the "real" price that unofficial vendors provide. (Of course, it may be more complex than that simplistic reading, hence econ student :])
madisp 5y ago
if you don't mind a soldered-on header then berrybase seems to have plenty of Pi Zero WHs
- blacksmith_tb 5y ago
  I prefer the WH, unless you have serious space constraints, soldering your own is a little fiddly.
marcosdumay 5y ago
The PI is almost always sold off, since the first version. Availability has always been low. What you are seeing is probably because the 3B+ is the most sold version, and replenishing anything is slightly harder right now.

justincormack 5y ago

In case you didn’t hear, there is a global supply chain crisis and a chip shortage.

micheljansen 5y ago

It says on the official Raspberry Pi website: Are you discontinuing Zero and Zero W? No. We seldom discontinue products, even where they have been superseded by more modern product at the same price point. Zero 2 W is $5 more expensive than Zero W, and joins the Zero family as a third member. Note that Zero and Zero W are currently experiencing supply constraints in the context of the global semiconductor shortage. We hope that this will be resolved in 2022.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago

> So, let's try a Model 3 B+ then... Same as before: Official vendors are almost all sold out, one has some but it's 15 to 20 Euro above the recommended price... An econ student would probably tell you that this is the market adjusting (or trying to) against the official price not matching the supply/demand intersection, so they're only available at the "real" price that unofficial vendors provide. (Of course, it may be more complex than that simplistic reading, hence econ student :])

madisp 5y ago

if you don't mind a soldered-on header then berrybase seems to have plenty of Pi Zero WHs

blacksmith_tb 5y ago
I prefer the WH, unless you have serious space constraints, soldering your own is a little fiddly.

marcosdumay 5y ago

The PI is almost always sold off, since the first version. Availability has always been low. What you are seeing is probably because the 3B+ is the most sold version, and replenishing anything is slightly harder right now.