4,405 products are carried by two or more independent shops and are out of stock at every single one of them. Not low, not backordered at one retailer: gone everywhere we can see. A further 101,050 are unavailable at the only shop that lists them, which is a much weaker statement — and this page keeps the two apart.
These are the 4,405 products several independent shops carried and none has any more, most expensive first. The price is the last figure anyone asked before the final shop ran out — what the product was worth to its market on the way out.
Recently gone, across the whole catalogue: what you just missed.
Across the whole corpus, 108,086 products — 38.8% of everything we read — are out of stock at every shop we know carries them. It is the number that would get quoted, and we have put it here rather than at the top, because on its own it misleads.
101,050 of them are sold by a single shop. “Every shop that carries it” then means one shop, and the sentence collapses into “an item is out of stock in the only store that stocks it” — something that shop's own page already says, and which needs no price tracker at all. Reporting 38.8% without that qualification would be technically accurate and practically dishonest.
The measurement worth making is the other one. When 4,405 products that several independent merchants chose to stock have run dry at all of them at once, something happened upstream — and no single merchant is in a position to notice.
We also drop the products whose only shops never report stock at all. 7 shops in the corpus mark every variant unavailable, which is not a claim about their shelves but a silence in what they publish; treating that silence as 2,631 shortages would be publishing an adapter's blind spot as a fact about the market.
The same measurement narrowed to complete electric boards — 240 of them — because that is the case a reader is most likely to be waiting on.
A shop knows its own stock. It has no idea, and no reason to care, whether the four other shops that carried the same board still have it. The manufacturer knows what it built, not what is left on shelves it does not own. A forum thread knows what one person saw in one place last March.
“Out of stock everywhere we can see” is a statement that requires reading everyone at once, twice a day, and remembering who used to carry what. It is the cheapest thing in the world for us to say and structurally impossible for a merchant to say, and that is exactly the kind of sentence this site exists to produce.
It is also the most actionable. A product missing from one shop is a shopping inconvenience. A product missing from all of them is either discontinued, recalled, between production runs, or about to be replaced — and if you were waiting for a price drop on it, the waiting is over and you should know that today rather than in six weeks.
A price is a claim about what a shop wants. Stock is a fact about what happened. When every shop that carried a machine has run out of it, something already occurred — a production run ended, a supplier changed, a recall landed, or demand simply outpaced a forecast — and the catalogue is the last place it becomes visible.
This matters most to the reader who was waiting. The instinct with an expensive machine is to hold out for a better price, and on most of this catalogue that instinct is sound: two thirds of the pages we hold dated captures for never change price at all, so waiting costs nothing. Disappearance is the case where it costs everything. There is no lower price coming for a product that no longer exists, and the last figure anyone asked becomes the ceiling for every second-hand listing that follows.
It is also the earliest signal of a replacement. A machine that vanishes from every shelf at once, rather than trickling out shop by shop, is usually a model being cleared ahead of a successor. We do not announce successors — we have no relationship with any manufacturer and no advance information, and inventing one would be the exact opposite of what this site is for — but the pattern is in the table above, dated, for anyone who wants to read it.
We cannot tell, and we will not guess. We measure shelves, not factories. A machine between production runs and one cancelled outright look identical from here. What we can say is that 4,405 products several independent shops carried are now unavailable at all of them, as of the last sweep.
Because we read 475 shops twice a day and remember who used to carry what. A shop knows its own stock and has no reason to track the four others that carried the same board. This is the cheapest sentence in the world for us and a structurally impossible one for a merchant.
Yes. We read 475 shops; there are more shops than that in the world, and a second-hand market we do not touch at all. “Out of stock everywhere we can see” is the precise claim, and the qualifier is not decoration.
Stock is re-read twice a day and a row leaves this page the moment one shop lists it again. You can also ask us to email you when a specific product does — there is a button on every product page, and it is the only thing on this site that needs your address.
Because it is what the product was worth to its market on the way out, and it is the number to judge any second-hand asking price against. It is also the baseline for whatever replaces it: a successor priced well above it is a price rise wearing a new model number.