I’m beginning to think to stop using Pis and instead get an old PC - I don’t use the GPIO pins at all, and I can get one of these for $289 AUD - https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/255608574938
That’s 32GB RAM and a 1TB disk.
An 8GB Pi is selling for $279.
Maybe I’m late, but do you know about https://rpilocator.com ? It also has a Telegram bot and it helped me to buy a RPi4 from an approved reseller, recently.