Amazon raised prices on Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices — here's how much more you're going to pay
Amazon said rising memory and component costs forced the increases, with the Echo Dot jumping 60% and several entry-level devices hit hardest.
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Virtually overnight, Amazon has significantly increased prices for many products. The Group is setting the stage with price increases for memory chips. Cheap devices are particularly affected.
Amazon raised prices on Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices — here's how much more you're going to pay
Over the weekend, Amazon quietly raised prices for nearly all of the devices the company makes, including the Echo Dot, Kindle Paperwhite and Fire TV Stick HD. It's the latest in a series of price increases that have hit nearly every company. You can guess what's to blame.Amazon's new prices vary in amount, with at least one device seeing a 60% increase; the company cited the ongoing RAM crisis and component inflation. First spotted by Fortune, …
Amazon also raises the prices of its own products such as Fire-TV sticks and Echo speakers in Germany. The reason for this is the storage crisis.
On the night of August 21st to 22nd, Amazon significantly increased prices for many of its own hardware products, in some cases up to 60 percent. It hit the Echo Dot, Amazon's cheapest smart speaker, whose price overnight rose from $49.99 to $79.99. Other Echo models also became more expensive, the Echo Show 21 about 400 to $500. For e-book readers, the price of the 16-gigabyte needle rose from $109.99 to $149.99, the Kindle Paperwhite from $159…
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