Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon

wasn't it posted here already?

According to

Only interested in US prices.

They do international shipping and you can change the language on the website to English. But hey, if you want to stick with Amazon and make Bezos even richer than he already is...

Yeah. I once imported the last two mid range units from a particular (Spanish) manufacturer that I could find to repair my 45 year old loudspeakers. From Australia!

And then they didn't fit. I had to 3D print adapter rings. I repaired the bass and treble units with parts from China, of course

The import from Oz was not too painful.

I did import a Fender part for a loudspeaker from USA. Bloody expensive but it got here OK

And out of stock

The point is almost NO one has Pi zeros AT ALL right now. The price is irrelevant

That's what the site says, but the price you pay would be VAT included. AFAIK only business owners can buy ex VAT (in a Dutch shop).

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.)

The OP is about the price, so I tend to disagree. I did however forgot 2 things: tariffs and the power supply. That would have to be bought in the US. I have no clue what effect tariffs would have since Drumpf changes his mind like every 5 minutes on this.

PSUs are generic But Pi zeros are unobtanium right now, except at silly money

I can wait. I think I have a spare one somewhere

DigiKey isn't that optimistic. They're saying sometime next year.

Hey, was JUST SAYIN' ... the ridiculous price was what I saw on US Amazon the other day.

Pi0s were supposed to be DIRT CHEAP - now they're "exotic", EXPENSIVE, tech. This is not all 'tariffs' either. Pi stuff was always way over-priced if you bought it in the USA.

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...

'unobtanium', I love it when I learn a new word/expression. If I could only remember it, so I can use it myself some day. (-:

I did a quick search yesterday and found 2 Dutch and 2 Belgian stores that still had them in stock for under 20 euro. But those were Zero W, not Zero 2 W. I didn't check if they shipped internationally, probably not, so they're of no use to many people here.

Point taken.

It's not overpriced now,. It's simply unobtainable

It's been around since the 1950s.

It's widely touted as the solution to renewable energy batteries.

All mine are v1.3s not 2.0. Although the Zero W was never given a version number til V2 More than adequate for what I wanted,.

No. They are just in very short supply

Then buy it direct from the UK!

I was in Boston on business a short time after my house got burgled and my CD collection stolen. I filled my suitcase with replacement CDs at

Plus buying from a non-official reseller means there's a scalper in the loop. (Hint: Amazon is not always the best place to buy things)

To be fair, 'merkins do have tariffs and import fees and whatnot to worry about these days. It's not as simple for them as it is for us.

Theo

I wonder what would happen if (once available again) you bought 1000 Pi zeros in the UK, put them in a suitcase and flew home with them, and then sold them on Ebay...

US Customs would be very interested in your suitcase!

The word has a long history. There is a nuance. 'Vaproware' is a product that is announced but doesn't exist. The prime example is when Osborne announced the successor to the Osborne 1, killing the sales of the existing product without having the replacement in hand. Intel's 432 and Microsoft's Xenix may fall into that category.

'Unobtanium' is a device that exists but you can't buy at the present time. The Zero is a current example. In the early '80s vendors were quoting similar lead times of over a year on commodity chips. That, in part, impacted IBM's PC design.