If you’ve been watching the tech news lately, there’s just one story you’ve probably seen… Black Friday. But if you’ve seen two stories, you’ve probably read about RAM prices going absolutely wall-bouncing bonkers. In addition to some stores selling memory at market price like lobster , Framework has had to stop selling individual DDR5 modules altogether.

In a tweet from the company’s official account earlier this week, the maker behind the modular, super-repairable laptops says it removed standalone RAM from the official store “to head off scalpers and preserve inventory for people buying it with our DIY Edition laptops.” The only other alternative was, apparently, raising prices. The tweet was spotted by PC Mag .

Taking a quick look at the “Memory & Storage” section of the Frame

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