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What is it with buying an RPi zero?

It has been out for a few years now but is never in stock anywhere for the advertised price of $5 ,it's sometimes available bundled with loads of crap you dont need for 10x this price, also you cant buy a qty of more than one anywhere.

If they've stuffed up the pricing and trying to reduce their exposure I am pretty sure a lot of people would be happy paying $10 instead.

I'm pretty sure there are more Tesla Model 3's being produced than Raspberry Pi Zeros :-)



Its definitely a loss leader with very limited availability, but thankfully it did spur a wave of sub-$10 single board computers, most of which are on par with much more powerful Raspis.

http://linuxgizmos.com/worlds-smallest-quad-core-sbc-starts-...


My local Micro Center usually has them in stock, but there's a quantity price penalty if you buy more than one, and the more you buy, the greater the penalty.


My brother works for their main distributor. He always says the day they get them in stock, they go out of stock. Demand is crazy for the things.




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