> It's pretty much unobtanium for as long as they've been in business > I've yet to see a Pi 'IRL' This is such an interesting contrast to where I live in the

> It's pretty much unobtanium for as long as they've been in business > I've yet to see a Pi 'IRL' This is such an interesting contrast to where I live in the United States. Until some time in 2021 I could go to Microcenter and expect to find what I wanted on the shelf most of the time. Mail order availability has sort of fluctuated over the past decade, but usually the stuff was available without too much difficulty. I don't think I've ever had to buy one at a marked up price, and certainly not as part of a bundle. Oddly, Adafruit used to markup their Pis something like five or ten bucks when purchased in small quantities, buy they don't do that anymore. If you're willing to leave https://rpilocator.com https://rpilocator.com running on your PC on Wednesday (it used to be that Wednesday was the day of the week Adafruit sold that week's allotment of Pis, I'm not sure that's still the case but this worked for me in August) you can probably get a Pi 4 from them. This kooky approach worked better for me than Adafruit's email notification of availability. By the time I received their email one Wednesday in June, they were sold out. Of course rpilocator might locate something closer to home. Adafruit's 2FA keeps the product from being sold out instantly, which is nice.