Amazon’s Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV just got hit with major price hikes
Amazon has raised prices across several Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, and Eero devices as rising memory and storage costs continue to pressure consumer electronics.
Amazon has recently increased the prices of several popular devices, including Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, and Eero products, due to rising memory and storage component costs. The Echo Dot, once priced at $49.99, has seen a 60% increase, now retailing at $79.99. Similarly, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max has increased from $59.99 to $84.99, while the cheaper Fire TV Stick HD has risen from $34.99 to $39.99.
The 16GB Kindle has jumped from $109.99 to $149.99, and the Kindle Paperwhite has increased by $40 to $199.99. Additionally, the Eero Pro 7 has risen by $100 to $799.99. Amazon acknowledged that it delayed passing these costs to customers for as long as possible. The memory price hike is evident in devices where RAM and storage make up a significant portion of the overall cost.
This development is part of a broader trend of rising memory and storage component costs that analysts have been warning about for months.
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