Pi Zero has disappeared from Farnell!

When I got around to ordering, they only had "kits" that increased the price per module to about 4 times the price of the actual module. And delivery scheduled for "after christmas". It could be that they have withdrawn the items because of high demand. On the other hand, if you ordered while stuff was "in stock" they will usually do their best to fulfill your order from that stock even if it runs out afterwards. (I managed to order my first pi on release day, even if they sold out minutes later. I got one of the first 5k! :-) )

UPDATE: has disappeared from my farnell as well. General search results have it show up, but the link to the product more or less 404's

I ordered mine from CPC and they only had the £10 kit but even  that is now out of stock

http://cpc.farnell.com/raspberrypizero?rd=pi+zero&selectedCategoryId=

I ordered mine from CPC and they only had the £10 kit but even  that is now out of stock

http://cpc.farnell.com/raspberrypizero?rd=pi+zero&selectedCategoryId=

No longer stocked.

Did we get the dates wrong an it actually is April 1st.? 

Discontinued is different from out of stock ...

Wonder if this design is just to clear out stock of  the old chips?

I think it might be a change in pricing.

I've seen element14 change numbers when new pricing means a reduced cost.

I've learnt to always do a search rather than repeat a previous order.

Mark

However I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't April 1st.

Some message or confirmation from the Farnell / Newak / Element14 guys is appreciated

Some message or confirmation from the Farnell / Newak / Element14 guys is appreciated

Not quite a work day in Chicago or the UK

The whole thing looks like typical Raspberry Pi Org combination of incompetence and economy-with-truth - a $5 product that no one can afford to sell unless they bundle it with $2 worth of junk and sell the package for at least $10 - typical Black Friday mega hype with very limited supply etc.

Contrast with launch of, for example, Amazon Fire Stick - phased launch in different countries so they could supply, clearly promoted at low price early on, and, as far as I know, all orders honored at the quoted price and no hidden extras (odd adapter leads included in the standard box.)

The RPO could have done the same, built up stock, sold a working package for £10 etc etc  - everyone would have had nice warm feelings instead of combination of disappointment/confusion/contempt.

MK

I am sorry to 100% agree with you.

Enrico

You're free to think what you want. But I think that in time, enough stock will become available, so that you WILL be able to buy them at (close to) the announced price. Just not today.

The PI hut was selling them, and "pushing a bit" towards the $2 worth of addons for $10, but if you politely declined the addons they were willing to sell me one at 4 pounds plus 2.5 shipping. At Farnell the bare zero will cost around EUR 8 or 9, in qty one. That's because of the "free shipping" policy they have. Buy 10 or 100 and the costs come down to around EUR 5.

Michael Kellett wrote:

 

The whole thing looks like typical Raspberry Pi Org combination...

 

Contrast with launch of, for example, Amazon Fire Stick...

I've come to expect a launch fiasco with each new RasPi product.  Perhaps they do it on purpose: make the new product hard to get so it becomes a Teddy Ruxpin or Tickle-Me Elmo, i.e., the must-have-but-impossible-to-get new toy of the season.  Whatever.  If you have a RasPi Zero project in mind, just use a RasPi A/B/A+/B+ to prototype it and by the time you have the code running you'll be able to get as many Zeroes as you want

Amazon doesn't make any money unless people have the product in hand so they can order things they don't need.  So there's a much bigger incentive to have product out there.  Plus Amazon can afford to spend lots of money to build a large inventory.

JMO/YMMV