• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Completely abandoned their original hobbyist customer base and sent all their inventory to B2B sales channels and scalpers for several years.

    And now that they’re finally providing B2C vendors with stock, they’ve jacked up the prices by 100% to 300%.

    Don’t forget the Raspberry Pi foundation was supposed to be a nonprofit and the only reason they’re the premier SBC is the community. Other boards have better specs, at a better price, with better features. The community support, the hobbyists, are the primary reason why they are what they are.

    That’s just one bad action, but their had been plenty others recently. Some kther comments here have provided information you should read, such as hiring police officers who specialized in using Pi’s for surveillance…

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      10 months ago

      The price is more or less the same as it’s always been, where is this nonsense 300% coming from? Are you quoting scalper prices as retail?