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Check out rpilocator.com. I was able to get 4 different pis at MSRP over the course of this year.

I'm jealous. Every time I see adafruit get restocked, it's all gone less than 10 minutes later. I've basically given up on Raspberry Pi at this point.

That mirrors my experience with Adafruit. I had better luck with digi-key and pishop.

Honestly I lost count how many times I perked up from the alert on rpilocator only for the stock to disappear while I was going through the checkout.

Recently, though? This worked earlier this year, but one vendor had at least 90x RPI4-8B in stock yesterday and they were gone in seconds. rpilocator didn't even see it.

I've bought 2 or 3 Pi's this year at the regular price, thanks to rpilocator. The most recent was a couple of months ago.

You do have to kinda watch it a bit obsessively if you're really serious about finding one, but it can be done. Or you could also just constantly refresh the page(s) of a couple of vendors that you know to get stock on some regular / semi-regular basis. Adafruit is one, and Elektor seems to get stock now and then as well.

I think the latest one I got was in July and it was a CM4 8GB/32GB

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