http://www.microcenter.com/product/463189/Zero_v13_Development_Board_-_Camera_Ready
1 at $5.00 each
2-5 at $9.99 each
6+ at $12.99 each
1 at $5.00 each
2-5 at $9.99 each
6+ at $12.99 each
Just FYI, Microcenter has periodic actually-a-"sale"s on the Zero for 99¢… Also in-store, and with theoretical limit of one per customer, but I'm not sure their online ordering system compares different orders, and can say from experience that no one bothers to check or seems to care when you buy them "in person" without placing a pick-up order (at least if you're not totally obvious about it, and at least at their Brooklyn store...)
I think that $5 is the MSRP for the Zero... if you can actually find it at that price.
By mail, you mean? Yeah, that's a problem, but I think Microcenter always sells them in-store only, so it doesn't change the fact that this really isn't a "deal". And if you mean available at MSRP anywhere on a regular basis, then, well, there's always Microcenter, which "usually" has them. They do go out of stock, but it's not like they disappear from their stores 3 days after they get a shipment... And they always get more, and never charge more than MSRP for the first item (and at least a couple/few times of year, even sell them for 99¢ for the first item.) And frankly, I have no problem with them charging a lot more for subsequent multiples, though I guess it wouldn't kill them to let people have 2 at $5.00, while still keeping a lid on all the rabid flippers that would otherwise buy their entire inventory within hours of it hitting their shelves if there were no limits at all…Important caveat. Where can you?
I think that $5 is the MSRP for the Zero... if you can actually find it at that price.
By mail, you mean? Yeah, that's a problem
Regardless of the pricing & availability games, what a time to be alive...a great development board for the price of a Big Mac, amazing!
Nowhere else that I know of (except maybe Fry's? I don't have a local one, so I don't actually know about that.) But then I don't know of any other major brick & mortar chain that carries them at any price. All I've been saying is that this is Microcenter's normal price for a product they regularly carry, so I''ve just been wondering what makes this a "deal" of any temperature...Where else can you get them in-store for that price?
what makes this a "deal"
Whatever. I think most people think of "deals" as being unusual/sale prices for products, not the normal price for a regular product that one person apparently didn't know the seller sells...Because as far as either of knows, this is the best price for this item available anywhere
The fact that you apparently had no clue doesn't make everyone else who did "expert"... It hardly takes an expert to know MC sells the Zero, and at MSRP. They've been doing it since the product was introduced, and they send emails that mention it at least once a month.Okay, you're a Micro Center expert and have their entire catalog memorized. Great, some of us don't.