HomeTech 575: Gunk Tank

Here's a couple of stories about price raises that we're going to get.

Uh, Home-

Everybody gets a price increase.

Homie says it's going to be raising prices for Homie Pro and the Homie Pro M- Mini starting June 1st, 2026.

The company attributes the increase to mainly the sharp, higher c- hi- higher costs for RAM and eMMC storage.

Uh, note the Raspberry Pi, this, which is basically, uh, supplying the core component of the Homie Pro, has also passed along those higher component costs, um, as well.

So their announcement, uh, they announced this, uh, another price increase, um, could affect production later in 2026.

So there we go.

Um, they said they, they've held the pricing steady as long as possible, uh, and that retailer margins and VATs, uh, the value add tax stack on top of the new SARM fee, so it's, it's still absorbing part of the cost difference, which is nice.

ButEverything is, uh, gonna cost a little more.

Current price for the Homey Pro is, what, three, $399, and it's gonna go to $449.

And for the Homey Pro Mini, its current price is $199, going to $249.

Yeah, I mean, it's kinda just one of those things that unfortunately it has to happen, you know? It's, it's AI.

Well, buy, buy now.

You got, you got till July 1st, so buy now if you want one at, at $199 or $399.

And sure, it's a big company.

You know, LG owns Homey, Homey now, but it's still, uh...

You know, prices are increasing.

R- AI is screwing everything.

[laughs]

If you haven't, if you haven't been to the store recently and looked at, like, computer hardware, for example, like hard drives.

Hard drives are basically nonexistent at this point.

You used to be able to buy a hard drive, like, th- you'd just walk in the store, and they would throw hard drives at you because they were so cheap.

Mm-hmm.

And now you're like, you're like, it's that like Dave Chappelle skit where he's, like, scratching his neck.