I guess you could call it market manipulation but it's more just resellers/scalpers trying to take advantage of the chip shortage. RPis have always been in high

I guess you could call it market manipulation but it's more just resellers/scalpers trying to take advantage of the chip shortage. RPis have always been in high demand and often were backordered even when things were fine; now they're supply constrained enough that scalpers can buy up in bulk and resell at high markup, similar to the GPU aftermarket going on right now.