Post #1802725

2026-01-06 03:50 UTC

They're out of stock at both Canakit and Vilros, but an original Pi Zero is still just $10 for the board. Sure, that's well beyond the inflation rate ($5 then would be about $6.89 now), but remember these are licensed resellers of official Pi products, so they have to mark them up at least a little to make a profit, especially now with tariffs affecting the imports. I wouldn't call being marked up just over 30% all that insidious.

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@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-06 04:35

I've kinda come to expect in the last three decades I've been following this stuff that hardware has the tendency to both get better *and* cheaper as time goes on. Like, RAM isn't really expensive at all right now either if you think selling an 8GB stick of DDR4 for $160 today fine, as that is also 10 year old hardware at double the launch price. So it's not that I expect being able to buy an old Raspi model for $25 or $5, I expect to be able to the buy a newer better one without having to pay up to six times as much. It's hilarious that those older models tend to be more expensive used than what they originally cost. Are we getting the housing bubble in tech hardware now too?

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