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The US vendors linked on the official site sold out in less than an hour...really wish they enforced a limit per person like pihut did. Anyone else starting to notice that buying any new tech on launch with enthusiast levels of hype (the past 2 years, even prior to the supply chain slowdown) requires spinning up a bot?

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Yeah, I don't know what it is. It's like the entire market has turned into one giant speculation machine, where everything and anything that could potentially have some broader interest has to be immediately bought out and resold at higher prices.

I don't know what the solution is, but yes, I've noticed it absolutely everywhere.

Inflation? More money chasing the same amount of goods

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