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Prices have gone a little insane in the last year though too to be fair to them.

• mschuster91 3mo ago
  The Pi alone... just today, someone over at Reddit spotted a Pi 5 being sold for 350$ [1]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1uso8u1/insanity/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1uso8u1/insanity/
  • rtkwe 3mo ago
    I thought that might just be Amazon resellers capitalizing on marks being too lazy to go off site at first when they were $280 at Microcenter (still crazy expensive). [0] Then Adafruit had them for the same $350! [1] And it really does seem to be driven by the ram too the 4 GB model is only $130 (or $104 at MC). [0] https://www.microcenter.com/product/702590/raspberry-pi-5?rd=1 https://www.microcenter.com/product/702590/raspberry-pi-5?rd... [1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypi https://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypi
  • Wingman4l7 3mo ago
    Just like eBay, an Amazon listing for a certain price does not mean the item is actually /selling/ for that price -- especially with badly-coded dynamic re-pricing algorithms hooked into listings these days.
    • rtkwe 3mo ago
      It's not completely out of line with other RPi sources listed on the RPi Foundation's own site. It's the same price as Adafruit for example but about $50 more than Mirco Center (though that is for instore pickup only so only for people lucky enough to live close to one).
  • drnick1 3mo ago
    The Pi 5 has always been a horrible value, even when you could buy it at MSRP.