“Sadly, the only reliable way to buy a Pi immediately is to pay scalping prices on eBay or buy bundles that include often-unneeded components to pad out the price of a normally-$35 Pi to $100 and beyond.”
Raspberry Pi is sending its scarce boards to commercial OEM customers first. Hobbyists, the people who made the Pi popular since 2012, get scalpers and padded bundles. The $35 computer is now a $100 computer. The foundation calls it keeping partner companies alive. The makers who built the brand were the cheapest customers to drop.