Raspberry Pi 5: available now! We’ve been excited to see the response of early users to Raspberry Pi 5, and can’t wait to see what you do once you get your hands on it.
They are absolutely doing it intentionally. Industry gets first crack, then some educators so they can get some good press, then the rest of us get scraps.
What do you think they should do? Manufacturing more won’t help; bots will buy all available initial stock regardless. You can try using exclusive channels, but then you exclude a whole lot of people who will naturally get upset. Increasing the initial price will piss people off, too.
Already sold out? Have they learned nothing? At this point they have to be doing it intentionally.
Scalp their own product and sell it for a markup just like how Nintendo does it with amibos and mini consoles.
My pi 4 is worth much much more than I bought it for. It’s insane.
They are absolutely doing it intentionally. Industry gets first crack, then some educators so they can get some good press, then the rest of us get scraps.
As an educator, still pretty hard for us to get them, too.
But it’s not them, it’s silicon in general. It’s why car prices have gone up, too.
What do you think they should do? Manufacturing more won’t help; bots will buy all available initial stock regardless. You can try using exclusive channels, but then you exclude a whole lot of people who will naturally get upset. Increasing the initial price will piss people off, too.