{"id":3175,"date":"2022-11-05T16:20:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picockpit.com\/raspberry-pi\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2023-08-16T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:20:58","slug":"is-it-better-to-fly-to-the-uk-to-buy-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picockpit.com\/raspberry-pi\/is-it-better-to-fly-to-the-uk-to-buy-a-raspberry-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it better to fly to the UK to buy a Raspberry Pi?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Have you heard of a term called “medical tourism” where people fly to a place to get treatment that’s out of reach in their home countries? What about “fly to buy a pi” tourism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raspberry Pis have certainly gone out of reach with the shortages in 2022 which will probably bleed into 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, is there a case for “Raspberry Pi tourism” where you fly to the UK to buy a Raspberry Pi?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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When I went to the Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge, England, I found myself shocked that they had so many boards in stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had every version of the Raspberry Pi 4, and even the Pi Zero 2 W. The latter had a quantity limit, but still better than the unobtanium you’d get elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, the biggest challenge today is resisting scalpers. If you want to pay multiple times the official price for a Raspberry Pi, you can get it really quickly. But the problem is that we’ll be supporting a business that contributes nothing to the Raspberry Pi community. So the real question here is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assuming you can’t get stock from an Approved Reseller, is it cheaper, vs scalped prices, to go on holiday to Cambridge and buy a Raspberry Pi at the official store?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let’s put some constants out there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factors in the UK<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n