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Has anyone alse had troubles with ordering a BBB?
I ordered mine, ages ago. The receipt from Element14 gave a delivery date in June... which came & went, no sign of BBB.
Called the company, checked the website: "It was shipped". No records of when, no parcel tracking, nothing.
Oh well, accidents happen. Replace it, please. "Oh, but NOW you have to sign a form, promising not to use it to make a guidance missile". Huh?
"It comes from the USA, it's a US trade thing". OK, another day wasted faxing forms.
Weeks pass...Still no BBB, contact Element14 again.
"You have to wait for next shipment from the UK" HOLD ON A MINUTE - I filled in a form to get a product from the USA, and it gets sent to England? 
So, has anyone else had troubles actually getting a BBB? Because after this hoo-ha, it needs to tap-dance and excrete gold bars to make up for the aggravation. 
Alan Campbell wrote:
Has anyone alse had troubles with ordering a BBB?
No, but it's probably the case that a lot of other people posting to this thread are either in the UK, or the US.
Oh well, accidents happen. Replace it, please. "Oh, but NOW you have to sign a form, promising not to use it to make a guidance missile". Huh?
"It comes from the USA, it's a US trade thing". OK, another day wasted faxing forms.
This seems to be something that TI has done with the classification of the SoC. When you order one from e14 in the uk, the despatch note has something stapled to it about some EU 'dual-use' regulation and it requiring export authorisation to re-export outside the EU. Nothing to sign though.
The daft thing about it is that you can order much more powerful/capable SoC and don't get this.
This sort of thing used to be quite common when shipping various bits of computer technology into Russia, Eastern Europe, or 'encryption technology' into France, but generally hasn't been the case for best part of 10 years now. So I was quite surprised to see it turn up again with the BBB.
I filled in a form to get a product from the USA, and it gets sent to England?
Supply chain works in mysterious ways.. e14 is based in the UK. I remember there were odd things when the RPi was still in restricted availability with them getting shipped from China to the UK, then back out to your corner of the globe. I'm sure it makes sense to a beancounter somewhere...
Alan Campbell wrote:
Has anyone alse had troubles with ordering a BBB?
No, but it's probably the case that a lot of other people posting to this thread are either in the UK, or the US.
Oh well, accidents happen. Replace it, please. "Oh, but NOW you have to sign a form, promising not to use it to make a guidance missile". Huh?
"It comes from the USA, it's a US trade thing". OK, another day wasted faxing forms.
This seems to be something that TI has done with the classification of the SoC. When you order one from e14 in the uk, the despatch note has something stapled to it about some EU 'dual-use' regulation and it requiring export authorisation to re-export outside the EU. Nothing to sign though.
The daft thing about it is that you can order much more powerful/capable SoC and don't get this.
This sort of thing used to be quite common when shipping various bits of computer technology into Russia, Eastern Europe, or 'encryption technology' into France, but generally hasn't been the case for best part of 10 years now. So I was quite surprised to see it turn up again with the BBB.
I filled in a form to get a product from the USA, and it gets sent to England?
Supply chain works in mysterious ways.. e14 is based in the UK. I remember there were odd things when the RPi was still in restricted availability with them getting shipped from China to the UK, then back out to your corner of the globe. I'm sure it makes sense to a beancounter somewhere...
