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Pi Zero has disappeared from Farnell!

leon_heller

I have two Pi Zeros on order, and was very surpised to find that it no longer appears in the Farnell stock list! What has happened to it?

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  • in reply to mcb1

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

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

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

    Not quite a work day in Chicago or the UK

  • in reply to mcb1

    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

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    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.

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    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 image

     

    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

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    I didn't cite Amazon as an example of perfection, just evidence that the techniques for a successful product launch are already well known and in regular use. I doubt that the RPO is much bothered by my opinion but it saddens me that they mop up so much of the general non technical media interest in home/small-scale computing and then make an un-necessary hash of things.

     

    I have no plans for an RPi (any flavour) project (ever) so my interest is more philosophical than practical.

     

    MK