Amazon raised prices on Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices — here's how much more you're going to pay

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, …

RAMageddon Strikes Again: Amazon Raises Its Electronics Prices by Up to 60%

The e-commerce giant blames increases in component costs for the device price hikes.

Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage

Amazon has raised the prices of its hardware devices by as much as 60%, blaming "significant increases in memory and storage component costs." TechCrunch reports: The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that's been cited is that of the Echo Dot, one of Amazon's cheapest smart speakers, the price of which jumped 60% overnight, from $49.99 to $79.99. Price-tracking sites like CamelCamelCamel show the…

Amazon increases prices: Echo and Kindle cost up to 60% more

Citing “a significant increase in memory and storage component costs,” Amazon has raised the prices of Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and Eero by up to 60 percent, first reported by Fortune and several industry media. The cheapest products in the Amazon catalog are those hit the hardest: theEcho Dot went from $49.99 to $79.99. The […]