Amazon quietly hikes prices on Echo, Kindle, citing rising memory costs
film_girl · x · 2026-09-01
Amazon raised prices on several devices overnight without public disclosure, including Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero products.
- The company cited "significant increases in memory and storage component costs."
- This signals that even Amazon, known for low prices, is being hit by rising hardware costs, passing the pressure to consumers.
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