Re: Off Topic: R PI 3B for $10.95

[Alan Corey <alan01346%gmail.com@localhost>]

Find what, that you're in the US?  I went to www.oxy.edu to see where
it was because I'd never heard of it.  There were people at my last
job whose job it was to maintain databases of course equivalencies at
large numbers of colleges for the sake of transfer students.  I was
associated in a technical role.

I did some searching on Amazon's site also through Google using the
site:amazon.com tag in my Google searches.  I searched for things like
"raspberry pi" 10.95 site:amazon.com

I suspect there are counterfeit Raspberry Pis out there like there are
counterfeit ICs and other things.  Like SD cards.  But it's in
Amazon's interest to weed these out.

The Pi is (mostly) unique in being built by a non profit foundation
originally for the purpose of getting low cost computers into kids
hands for educational purposes.  Since anybody can buy one they have a
side role as controllers in industry, cryptocurrency for example.  I
have a Pi Zero running an ASIC.  If you spend time in the forums at
bitcointalk.org you'll find they're commonly used.

As far as I know they only sell to Radio Shack and Element 14 (Newark
Electronics).  Everybody else charges more, not less.  Zeros have
different suppliers.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/files/about/RaspberryPiFoundationStrategy2016-18.pdf

On 6/21/17, Henry B (Hank) Hotz, CISSP <hbhotz%oxy.edu@localhost> wrote:
> Yeah, sorry about that. Yes, I’m in CA/US. (Just curious; where did you look
> to find that?)
>
> Presumably the price would be the same anywhere (except for currency
> conversion issues). I used a vender who was *not* in California, since they
> collected no sales tax. No idea about shipping. My point was, in fact, the
> price of the unit itself.
>
> I would speculate that it’s not a scam, but a case of wannabe sellers
> killing each other in order to gain market share and respectability. We’ll
> see if I actually get the thing.
>
>> On Jun 21, 2017, at 1:46 AM, Christian Baer
>> <christian.baer%informatik.uni-dortmund.de@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/20/17 17:57, Henry B (Hank) Hotz, CISSP wrote:
>>
>>> On Amazon now. Two venders, one with free shipping.
>>
>> You do realise (note the British spelling) that not everybody on this
>> list lives in the US (or like in your case, California) and thus the
>> shipping information very likely will not apply to us?
>>
>> There are plenty of shop that have the Pi3 in stock. I bought two
>> several months ago. So I am guessing that the price is the point you are
>> tying to make here?
>>
>> Anyways, not trying to be a jerk, just reminding you that the majority
>> of the world actually lives outside of the US. :-)
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Chris
>
> Personal email.  hbhotz%oxy.edu@localhost
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