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In the UK, I've seen a lot of vendors (when they do get stock in) only sell them as part of a bundle, with power adapter, case, SD card, usb and hdmi cables etc

In the UK, I've seen a lot of vendors (when they do get stock in) only sell them as part of a bundle, with power adapter, case, SD card, usb and hdmi cables etc, which adds £20-£30 onto the price of the Pi. Probably partly as it's extra profit, but also to discourage multi-buys I guess. I dunno if it discourages the scalpers. These bundles never appear on rpilocater.

sidewndr46 4y ago
At that kind of price you can just buy an all-in-one Intel box off Ali Express
- tvb12 4y ago
  I was looking at those recently. They're all small, sub $200, and usually have a Celeron N5105. Do you have to worry about Linux support when you're looking at something like that, or will it work pretty much out of the box?
  - sidewndr46 4y ago
    I have one running Alpine Linux on it presently. Seems to just work for the most part. Nothing weird about it I have found yet.
gambiting 4y ago
I was about to comment - there's absolutely no issue buying an RPi4 in the UK currently, if you don't mind buying a bundle. Pimoroni has few different ones in stock currently. And yes it discourages the scalpers - while the stuff you get in the bundle is usually worth the price being asked for it, to a scalper it's worth 0 and it makes it difficult to make profit flipping the boards themselves. Same principle is successfully used to fight PS5 scalpers.
- enlyth 4y ago
  I wouldn't say there's 'absolutely no issue' buying one in the UK, I just checked on Pimoroni and they're all out of stock, every single one: https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi?product_type=Raspberry%20Pi https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi?product_t... I wasn't able to actually find any website other than eBay at 100+ quid that have them in stock, even as kits.
  - gambiting 4y ago
    You're looking at bare boards. I specifically said bundles are in stock, and no, they are not "100+ quid" https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-essentials-kit?variant=39850460119123 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-essentials...

sidewndr46 4y ago

At that kind of price you can just buy an all-in-one Intel box off Ali Express

tvb12 4y ago
I was looking at those recently. They're all small, sub $200, and usually have a Celeron N5105. Do you have to worry about Linux support when you're looking at something like that, or will it work pretty much out of the box?
- sidewndr46 4y ago
  I have one running Alpine Linux on it presently. Seems to just work for the most part. Nothing weird about it I have found yet.

gambiting 4y ago

I was about to comment - there's absolutely no issue buying an RPi4 in the UK currently, if you don't mind buying a bundle. Pimoroni has few different ones in stock currently. And yes it discourages the scalpers - while the stuff you get in the bundle is usually worth the price being asked for it, to a scalper it's worth 0 and it makes it difficult to make profit flipping the boards themselves. Same principle is successfully used to fight PS5 scalpers.

enlyth 4y ago
I wouldn't say there's 'absolutely no issue' buying one in the UK, I just checked on Pimoroni and they're all out of stock, every single one: https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi?product_type=Raspberry%20Pi https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi?product_t... I wasn't able to actually find any website other than eBay at 100+ quid that have them in stock, even as kits.
- gambiting 4y ago
  You're looking at bare boards. I specifically said bundles are in stock, and no, they are not "100+ quid" https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-essentials-kit?variant=39850460119123 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-essentials...