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Raspberry PI Zero W 2 launched today
Bicurico:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-2/
Still available, at least I could order one flagged as available at local reseller (https://mauser.pt/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=096-4559&src=raspberrypi), but they are sold as 1 unit per person.
Regards,
Vitor
djacobow:
--- Quote from: evb149 on October 29, 2021, 04:08:54 am ---It is pretty astounding foolishness to have these "one order per person" limits from some resellers of these.
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Never ascribe to stupidity what can more easily be explained by malice.
The product isn't profitable at the price it's offered, so they force you to pay shipping over and over. And that's just for hobbyists that need a few.
Your can't design a product around it, unless it's also for hobbyists that will get the pi on their own.
jeremy:
On the one per person; it isn’t great, but there is the whole component shortage going on…
djacobow:
--- Quote from: jeremy on October 29, 2021, 04:24:09 am ---On the one per person; it isn’t great, but there is the whole component shortage going on…
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True, but the Pi Zero W has always been sold this way. You've never been able to buy more than one at one at the "Pi Foundation price". There are people who will sell you more than one at once on Amazon, but at a higher price.
brucehoult:
--- Quote from: jeremy on October 29, 2021, 04:24:09 am ---On the one per person; it isn’t great, but there is the whole component shortage going on…
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One Pi Zero per order long predates the current component shortage. It was true at announcement in 2015. And it wasn't just a "shortage until production ramps up" thing either. It's *always* been true. There has never been a time when you could simply order 100 Pi Zeros at the advertised $5 each.
Contrast that with, say, the Longan Nano, available for $4.80 from China or $6.13 from Mouser:
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Seeed-Studio/102991302?qs=RcG8xmE7yp15ihBCpLOGNg%3D%3D
Right now it says 276 in stock. If you want you can order all 276 and they'll say "Thank you very much for your custom".
Mouser carry Raspberry Pi. They have a lot of Pi 3B, Pi 3+. and Pi 4 in varying RAM sizes:
https://www.mouser.com/c/embedded-solutions/computing/single-board-computers/?m=Raspberry%20Pi
Sadly, they don't seem to have any *stock* at the moment (global component crisis etc). But if you want 100 or 500 Pi4 8 GB they'll be very happy to take your order now and deliver them when they get them on December 20th.
They *don't* have Pi Zero. Never have.
The obvious and surely correct reason is that the Pi Zero at $5 is being sold at a loss. It's not a commercial product. It's charity. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is *explicitly* a charity, not a business.
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