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Here you go. Its $10 at Microcenter https://www.microcenter.com/product/486575/Zero_W https://www.microcenter.com/product/486575/Zero_W

lannisterstark 3y ago
Not everyone lives near a microcenter though. The pi zero W/2W comes out to like , $15+ ship + taxes and is more like $24.
- bmurphy1976 3y ago
  I've been trying to get two Zero W 2s for almost two years now without getting ripped off by somebody on the second hand market. They are still nearly impossible to find for the advertised price. :(
  - nmjohn 3y ago
    While that certainly has been true for the majority of the last two years - rpi's in pretty much all skus have been back in stock for a few months now - to the point that even digikey has many of the skus in bulk stock See: https://rpilocator.com/ https://rpilocator.com/ As for Zero W 2s: In stock right now: https://chicagodist.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2 https://chicagodist.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2
    - bmurphy1976 3y ago
      Oh, thanks! I've been watching that religiously and while you are correct the other Pi's have been available for a couple months now, the 2Ws have been absent. I haven't checked in a couple weeks now, I'm happy to see they are finally in stock! Edit: it's a bit premature. Only Chicago Distributors have them in stock at the moment and they are limiting the orders to 1, which is frustrating because I only need 2.
  - dheera 3y ago
    Let's all keep reporting them for price gouging until they get put out of business. Things that could be put to use should not be sitting in a warehouse.
  - older 3y ago
    You can follow this account on Mastodon to get stock alerts: https://mastodon.social/@rpilocator https://mastodon.social/@rpilocator
  - gambiting 3y ago
    Eh? Most UK retailers have it at RRP: https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2 https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2
- georgeecollins 3y ago
  Having grown up in a world where 8 bit computers with 4-16k ram (and no storage) cost the equivalent of $1000, inflation adjusted, this seems like an almost insane complaint. Hardware is so cheap now compared to software which is still very expensive to produce. A person could spend less than a $100 on a computer and make that money back very quickly doing various digital tasks on fiverr.
  - lannisterstark 3y ago
    >make that money back very quickly doing various digital tasks on fiverr. >an almost insane complaint That's not the complaint. Not everything is a "I can make x money back" preposition. The complaint is "A $10 item is costing me $25." It's costing me 2.5x the price it should be. Maybe you should see it from that POV. You can also keep going on about kids starving right this instant while I complain about 2.5x price difference, it doesn't change a thing. a $10 pi zero 2 w still costs $25, if not more given it's almost never in stock and runs out so quickly. >Having grown up in a world where 8 bit computers with 4-16k ram (and no storage) cost the equivalent of $1000 That doesn't mean much though, does it? I'm not comparing today's costs to back when you grew up. Nor am I saying today's costs costs are worse than when you grew up. If I was, you'd be right. I am not. I am just complaining about the price I have to pay due to scalping/availability vs price something is advertised at usually. ---- That being said, I understand why shipping exists, but $5 overcharge for sake of it plus $7 to ship something this tiny is a bit iffy. They literally just pack it in a soft wrap and throw it in an envelope.
    - ska 3y ago
      I think GP's point was that it's incredibly cheap at $25 or at $10, enough so that for hobby uses it shouldn't really matter unless you are the type of person who just can't get past "I'm getting ripped off $10". They are basically right, although I guess you should add "in much of the world".
      - lannisterstark 3y ago
        >hobby uses it shouldn't really matter unless you are the type of person who just can't get past "I'm getting ripped off $10". I mean, for one or two devices, sure, whatever (as was my thought process when I bought them). But then I was like, "What if I add a pi zero to this, and this, and this!" and a $15 difference quickly becomes 'expensive.'
cornstalks 3y ago
> 11+ at $999.99 each Wow...
- nkozyra 3y ago
  To discourage the hoarding that happened (although less-so with the Zero) in the last two years. At least they're willing to take your money, a lot of shops had hard caps.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago
  > > 11+ at $999.99 each > Wow... Prices should better be sub-additive, since otherwise market arbitrage opportunities appear (in this case: to get more than 10: buy 10, and find some friends who also buy 10). If such an irrational pricing appears, it is a sign of market failure; in this case: if the demand is higher than the demand, prices have to increase until for the given pricing level supply=demand. This is how markets self-calibrate.

lannisterstark 3y ago

Not everyone lives near a microcenter though. The pi zero W/2W comes out to like , $15+ ship + taxes and is more like $24.

bmurphy1976 3y ago
I've been trying to get two Zero W 2s for almost two years now without getting ripped off by somebody on the second hand market. They are still nearly impossible to find for the advertised price. :(
- nmjohn 3y ago
  While that certainly has been true for the majority of the last two years - rpi's in pretty much all skus have been back in stock for a few months now - to the point that even digikey has many of the skus in bulk stock See: https://rpilocator.com/ https://rpilocator.com/ As for Zero W 2s: In stock right now: https://chicagodist.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2 https://chicagodist.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2
  - bmurphy1976 3y ago
    Oh, thanks! I've been watching that religiously and while you are correct the other Pi's have been available for a couple months now, the 2Ws have been absent. I haven't checked in a couple weeks now, I'm happy to see they are finally in stock! Edit: it's a bit premature. Only Chicago Distributors have them in stock at the moment and they are limiting the orders to 1, which is frustrating because I only need 2.
- dheera 3y ago
  Let's all keep reporting them for price gouging until they get put out of business. Things that could be put to use should not be sitting in a warehouse.
- older 3y ago
  You can follow this account on Mastodon to get stock alerts: https://mastodon.social/@rpilocator https://mastodon.social/@rpilocator
- gambiting 3y ago
  Eh? Most UK retailers have it at RRP: https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2 https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2
georgeecollins 3y ago
Having grown up in a world where 8 bit computers with 4-16k ram (and no storage) cost the equivalent of $1000, inflation adjusted, this seems like an almost insane complaint. Hardware is so cheap now compared to software which is still very expensive to produce. A person could spend less than a $100 on a computer and make that money back very quickly doing various digital tasks on fiverr.
- lannisterstark 3y ago
  >make that money back very quickly doing various digital tasks on fiverr. >an almost insane complaint That's not the complaint. Not everything is a "I can make x money back" preposition. The complaint is "A $10 item is costing me $25." It's costing me 2.5x the price it should be. Maybe you should see it from that POV. You can also keep going on about kids starving right this instant while I complain about 2.5x price difference, it doesn't change a thing. a $10 pi zero 2 w still costs $25, if not more given it's almost never in stock and runs out so quickly. >Having grown up in a world where 8 bit computers with 4-16k ram (and no storage) cost the equivalent of $1000 That doesn't mean much though, does it? I'm not comparing today's costs to back when you grew up. Nor am I saying today's costs costs are worse than when you grew up. If I was, you'd be right. I am not. I am just complaining about the price I have to pay due to scalping/availability vs price something is advertised at usually. ---- That being said, I understand why shipping exists, but $5 overcharge for sake of it plus $7 to ship something this tiny is a bit iffy. They literally just pack it in a soft wrap and throw it in an envelope.
  - ska 3y ago
    I think GP's point was that it's incredibly cheap at $25 or at $10, enough so that for hobby uses it shouldn't really matter unless you are the type of person who just can't get past "I'm getting ripped off $10". They are basically right, although I guess you should add "in much of the world".
    - lannisterstark 3y ago
      >hobby uses it shouldn't really matter unless you are the type of person who just can't get past "I'm getting ripped off $10". I mean, for one or two devices, sure, whatever (as was my thought process when I bought them). But then I was like, "What if I add a pi zero to this, and this, and this!" and a $15 difference quickly becomes 'expensive.'

cornstalks 3y ago

> 11+ at $999.99 each Wow...

nkozyra 3y ago
To discourage the hoarding that happened (although less-so with the Zero) in the last two years. At least they're willing to take your money, a lot of shops had hard caps.
aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> > 11+ at $999.99 each > Wow... Prices should better be sub-additive, since otherwise market arbitrage opportunities appear (in this case: to get more than 10: buy 10, and find some friends who also buy 10). If such an irrational pricing appears, it is a sign of market failure; in this case: if the demand is higher than the demand, prices have to increase until for the given pricing level supply=demand. This is how markets self-calibrate.