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The kits are always going to be marked up—and even more so today, since it's so hard to find individual Pis in stock anywhere. Here in the US, the only way for
by geerlingguy 5y ago
The kits are always going to be marked up—and even more so today, since it's so hard to find individual Pis in stock anywhere.
Here in the US, the only way for many people to get a Pi 4 is in a kit that's at least $100 (sometimes scalped and marked up to $150-200 on Amazon or eBay). Until about 3 months ago, though, I could reliably find a model I wanted from Micro Center or one of the official Pi online resellers for $35-75 (list price).
- throwaway743 5y agoAny reason why this is the case? Chip shortages? Backing up of imports? I just noticed this the other day when looking to get a Pi 4 as a gift for my brother. It's crazy to think just a year or two ago I bought two at normal price, and now one can't find any individual boards anywhere really
- geerlingguy 5y agoMostly the chip shortages—Raspberry Pi has pulled out all the stops but couldn't come anywhere close to meeting demand over 2021. And they even decided to focus production only on the BCM2711-based devices for the latter part of this year. They posted a blog post with some detail behind what's going on: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-shortages-and-our-first-ever-price-increase/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-shortages-and-...