More “official” stores never changed their prices. They just never had any.

PiShop in Canada, for example, still lists the Pi 4 4GB for $76.95, but rpi locator says last time it was in stock was June 2022. Some item’s have an empty field for last seen and I've been assuming that means the tool has never seen them in stock.

So I would have needed to find another way to get it, and scalpers/Amazon never waste a good crisis.