(09-11-2020, 06:36 AM)Peter Gamma Wrote: But I think for someone who needs urgently a PinePhone when it is out of stock it is a misery. Can the period when the PinePhone is out of stock not be minimized?
Unfortunately, it's the nature of the "big ticket" items that Pine64 sell i.e. PineBook, PinePhone even the PineTablet that they are manufactured in batches, sell out before the batch finishes production and then the sequence repeats itself. Still there is no cause to buy any of these items anywhere else than from the PineStore. It's simply a matter of having the discipline to wait for the opportunity and placing a pre-order. People might want desperately to buy any of these items and it's their call if they want to pay more than in the PineStore. Nobody can really control that, except the people involved that are paying. They might have more cash than sense or be acting out of impulse etc. It's their choice to make, even if others do not approve.
And the cases where any of these items appear on auction sites is tiny, almost insignificant in proportion.
The bottom line is that it is not worth being concerned over.
