Fit_Acanthisitta_475
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Went to replace a dying Fire TV Stick 4K Max last week and did a double take at checkout. It was $59.99 the last time I bought one. It is $84.99 now. That is not a rounding adjustment, that is a different product category. The plain Fire TV Stick HD only moved from $34.99 to $39.99, so if all you need is something cheap for a guest room the damage there is survivable.
Amazon's line is that memory and storage component costs went up and they absorbed it as long as they could. Fine, and it is not only them. The Echo Dot went from $49.99 to $79.99, the 16GB Kindle from $109.99 to $149.99, Nintendo pushed the Switch from $349.99 to $399.99, and the PS5 went up back in April. The reporting I read says the RAM squeeze runs through 2027 and only settles in 2028, which is a long time to be told to sit tight.
Here is what actually changes. At $59.99 the 4K Max was the default answer for anyone who did not want to think about it, cheap enough that the ad-stuffed home screen was a fair trade. At $84.99 it lands close enough to boxes I would genuinely rather own that the default is simply gone. And notably Ring doorbells took no increase at all, which tells you where the margin really lives.
Has anyone here actually paid the new price yet, or are we all just nursing the old sticks until they brick?
Amazon's line is that memory and storage component costs went up and they absorbed it as long as they could. Fine, and it is not only them. The Echo Dot went from $49.99 to $79.99, the 16GB Kindle from $109.99 to $149.99, Nintendo pushed the Switch from $349.99 to $399.99, and the PS5 went up back in April. The reporting I read says the RAM squeeze runs through 2027 and only settles in 2028, which is a long time to be told to sit tight.
Here is what actually changes. At $59.99 the 4K Max was the default answer for anyone who did not want to think about it, cheap enough that the ad-stuffed home screen was a fair trade. At $84.99 it lands close enough to boxes I would genuinely rather own that the default is simply gone. And notably Ring doorbells took no increase at all, which tells you where the margin really lives.
Has anyone here actually paid the new price yet, or are we all just nursing the old sticks until they brick?
