Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon Date: 6 Aug 2026 18:32:07 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <114vthn$36oqc$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net DEbZ+qMEVRjieC9mzMEgBg3XWcE9DPvgjgW5DljVbx0JLwHcpz Cancel-Lock: sha1:11WX+SMw9b4ErjMw7dTwCdf/JHQ= sha256:SDprdFAx88u+HYbCwMPmiTbZNh5o+s3VnH07/3O/JIk= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89646 comp.sys.raspberry-pi:38352 On Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:03:57 +0200, s|b wrote: > On 5 Aug 2026 22:03:21 GMT, rbowman wrote: > >> On Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:14:34 +0200, s|b wrote: >> >> > That's what I said. They expect to have new ones by Oct 2026, but who >> > knows? (There's a button to get a notification when they're available >> > again.) > >> DigiKey isn't that optimistic. They're saying sometime next year. > > Yesterday, I did a quick search for Raspberry Pi Zero and found 2 Dutch > and 2 Belgian stores who still had them in stock and sold them under 20 > euro. Just saying... Perhaps the Dutch are more ethical. Obama's election triggered panic buying of ammunition that resulted in bare shelves. Many vendors maintained the current price but quickly exhausted their stock. One vendors which had been known as a cheap source had stock but raised prices almost hourly. When the market normalized many remembered the vendor who used the 'whatever the market will bear' philosophy. The extremely overpriced vendors on Amazon have an advantage. Next year they can return with a brand new name. I did note a new Amazon feature, a 'high price alert' that suggested you might search a little further. The 'price history' graph is also useful.