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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Why are your prices so high there? Double what we are at here

It's europe. All electronics are more xpensive here, often because of import taxes/VAT etc.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because Europe, but as you can see the OpenWrt One makes no sense when the BPI-Wifi5 is half the price and the R3 is a 35€ more expensive but has multiple ethernet posts, SFP and a ton of other IO. In fact even for the US market I don't see the price of the OpenWrt One making any sense, because the others are cheaper over there as well.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The odd thing about any pi kits in north america is their website list price is not our distributer purchase price. I looked up the Banana pi kit openwrt and it would be €114 .

Everyone always says thing like you can get a raspberrypi for €25 , but trying to get one here means used ones were €120 and new was €170