The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
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Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#2I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero?
The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price.
Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one.
So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I can think of so many cool uses for multiple Zeros, and I just can't get them.
Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#3I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…
Shipping isn't free, I don't see how it's wrong to exclude that from the $5.
Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#4This is awesome! I remember when these first came out and meeting Eben and Liz at the Bay Area Makerfaire. Fun folks! They’ve started something really special.
Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#5I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…
Shipping isn't free, I don't see how it's wrong to exclude that from the $5.
But it should go down per device significantly when shipping multiple. A one per customer policy and charging for shipping is usually a sneaky way to make money on the shipping.
Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#6I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…
Shipping isn't free, I don't see how it's wrong to exclude that from the $5.
Shipping 10 together is not even nearly as expensive as shipping one 10 times. Free shipping and constant per item shipping costs are a lie that ends up with higher costs.
Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#7I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…
Shipping isn't free, I don't see how it's wrong to exclude that from the $5.
Nobody is selling to for $5. Adafruit sells it for $10 excluding shipping, ebay sellers have it listed for about $15/10 GBP with free shipping.
The price really is a lie for consumers. Maybe $5 refers to the price they sell to distributors, who need to mark it up.
Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#8I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…
Shipping isn't free, I don't see how it's wrong to exclude that from the $5.
Because it's not possible to buy it without shipping. (Fry's had them in physical stores, briefly, but quickly sold out and never got anymore.)
It would be fine if you were allowed to buy more than one, because then the cost of shipping per unit would be negligible, but you're not, you can only buy one.
So it's totally fair to include the shipping cost, because there's no alternative.
Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
#9I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…
I have 2 of them, paid $10 plus tax . I visited a microcenter and they were $5 each, I and a friend of mine bought 1 each.
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Shipping isn't free, I don't see how it's wrong to exclude that from the $5.
Nobody is selling to for $5. Adafruit sells it for $10 excluding shipping, ebay sellers have it listed for about $15/10 GBP with free shipping. The price really is a lie for consumers. Maybe $5 refers to the price they sell to distributors, who need to mark it up.
Microcenter sells them for 5 dollars. This is the first unit. I happen to have one close to my home so I've been able to buy a few of them, I just buy one each time i go there. I am building retropie machines for my friends so i get them for 5 bucks. you can only buy one pi zero w for 5 dollars. but you can always come back and buy more.