somewhat unrelated but I recently looked for a pi and it was sold out or the price tag was 10x the regular price everywhere, mostly because of the chip shortage. Am I looking in the wrong places?
That's why the legit vendors like Adafruit now set a quantity limit and also require registration (with phone number IIRC) to buy them.
You can snipe at 1x from the usual rpi vendors when they come back in stock, if you make the effort.