I was shopping for 2 8GB models a few months ago. There is / was a shortage and some shops / resellers charge 200-300% above list price. Highest I’ve seen was 350€. This was the German market, but from what I heard it doesn’t seem to look a lot better globally.

Kinda the same way that there was a GPU shortage up until recently. You can go out and order an rPi now and it will get delivered within a week, but the markup is insane. It's basically impossible to find any Pi hardware at MSRP.

Chips in general are still experiencing supply chain issues too, so this is unlikely to change.

Yes, constrained supply means individual customers are going to struggle to find stock.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain...