/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>be me
>willing to buy some 15-20 raspberry Pi Zero W for a cute project
>mission: impossible
>5 vendors in my country (Europe), 3 of them have it "out of stock" since ages, fourth one has it "coming January 2020 - not yet available" (yes, to date it's still "coming Jan 2020"), fifth one has it but only 2 available and it ships from a different country. 17 bucks each. Excuse le fuckin me, but le fuckin what?
>not considering ebay because ebay is cancer
>scared about cheap shit off china - friend ordered 500 MOSFETs for 35 bucks and he got 500 legit retarded cheap transistors

So, we're in 2020 and le epic meme of le $5 Raspi is still a meme.