Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:43:30 +0100 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net LyD7orxKL003ksamWlYavQloZWlC3JTxodqD+bDBRI+PDes3jJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:uFqT+Fm7QD4cIhITfQ/1R4BDhKU= sha256:/4J0+IZgIFVlU8WdF1E2paTSNSG/EGhg+OlY+nxS9Us= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89554 rbowman wrote: > Andy Burns wrote: > >> Find a better place to buy? I see them from $15 at digikey in the USA >> >> > > If you go to DigiKey's site you'll find there are 0 in stock. There is a > 'check lead time' option that says they will be available 6/7/2027. I did, but the locator site said they had stock yesterday, not sure if they actually did or not? I did manage to buy a zero a couple of weeks ago within the UK (both non-W and 2W were available at that time, I specifically didn't want a 2W) > I've seen this in the early '80s when lead times were a year or more. > Before starting a design you researched what you could buy. Motorola was > particularly bad as they responded to increased demand in the automotive > industry as cars became more sophisticated. > > The Amazon pricing probably reflects a vendor who has stock on hand and is > gouging for all they're worth, or should I say responding to the law of > supply and demand. If you look at the feedback of the marketplace supplier, there 1 star reviews from people calling them cunts, so I'd probably avoid ... > The problem is if Part B is designed in because of temporary shortage of > Part A, there is little future incentive to go back to Part A. As someone mentioned maybe Ukraine and/or Russia are buying them up?