The price of a Pi

True but it is not a good deal 100 euros for the Pi Zero

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Like I said, "profiteering".

Yes

That is only the price from rip off merchants, cashing in on the current global component shortage. You could also use a Raspberry Pi 3, or Raspberry Pi 4, which are more of the $40 mark, depending on how much memory they have.

Yes, but on another sites because I looked now at Amazon and it is 150-200€

And your point is?

Global component shortages bring out the rip off merchants and no one rips you off more than Amazon.

Yes

How is it a rip off? You don't have to buy the thing. If it were cheaper you would not be able to buy it at all because they'd all have been sold already.

It is called profiteering, and I think it used to be illegal during the War.

You could call it the free marked supply and demand.

Mike means WW2. Unfortunately, profiteering wasn't illegal during the Falklands war, the Iraq war, Afghanistan... not in the UK, anyway.

In WW2, I'm told, it was illegal for a household to keep a pig in their back yard, because meat was rationed. There was a movie about that starting Michael Palin, can't remember the name...

Raspberry Pi Zero (canakit.com)

A Private Function.

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Yes see:-

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BBC - WW2 People's War - "Pig Clubs", Supplementing Meat Rations

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Case in point!


You can only buy one if you are willing to spend $75 on a kit containing a pi!

Raspberry Pi Zero (pishop.us)

That was Not Out of Stock 5 minutes ago.

Pi Picos proliferate (all over the place), even now the Pico W.
I guess they have other priorities.

I have three RP's (a 3, a 4, and probably a 2), NIB, given to me as gifts. I didn't get the keyboard, monitor, and so on though.


That's hopeful! I wonder if that "800" is units they have in stock...

CanaKit doesn't ship to Australia anyway.

From what store? Also, a SKU isn't usually how many they have in stock. As someone who runs my own online store, I have learnt that a SKU is most commonly used as a easy number used to differentiate products. If you look at the definition of 'SKU', it's supposed to also be for stock levels, but most people don't use it for that so its best not to assume that that's what someone is doing.

I know, I have worked in retail for many years and know the real meaning of SKU. However, 3 digits does not seem very many for a SKU, only allowing for 1000 products, so I wistfully imagined it might be the actual stock level. But I know it isn't really, that was me being "glass half full". The "glass half empty" me wonders if "maximum purchase: 1 unit" does not mean per customer, it means they've only got a total of one to sell :wink:

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