UK Ordering through Farnell

each time i go to the site i following the links and end up here

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?ICID=I-RASP-HPBLOF-0015&bespokepage=farnell/en_UK/promotions/raspberryPi.jsp

this fails massively, always times out...

been trying every 10 minutes from 6am this morning until now.

considering ordering from the states side links just to make sure i get one

Anyone else in the UK experiencing this ?

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Former Member over 13 years ago

i would have ramped up the webserver resources and the bandwidth to cope for this sudden surge of access.... i think whomever is in charge of farnell's web sites... need to pull their finger out and get the lead out
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

That should be their first priority,....Any site go down for this kind of traffic,,, but .. there should be someone who is ready to take care of this huge thing..
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bodgy over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Well I assume the plan was for R-Pi to sell the first 10,000 via their website and for RS and E-14 to come on board later, so I suppose E-14 and RS didn't think it would be this popular. If R-Pi had told them how many people were on the R-Pi waiting list RS/E-14 might have realised this was going to be big, but then maybe R-Pi did and RS and E-14 ignored them.
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ironwood over 13 years ago in reply to bodgy

Farnell phone number for ordering is working fine. Lead time end of April +44 (0) 20 7851 4100
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to ironwood

End of April ... they are joking!

Thanks for the number, though.

The whole Farnell site is "down for maintenance" - - serves 'em right, this was entirely predictable and steps should've been taken to alleviate this.

Mike
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to ironwood

End of April ... they are joking!

Thanks for the number, though.

The whole Farnell site is "down for maintenance" - - serves 'em right, this was entirely predictable and steps should've been taken to alleviate this.

Mike
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Managed to finally order via Farnell at 07:15 gmt this morning with an estimated delivery date of 12th of March. (will wait and see on that one)

At least Farnel were actually offering them for sale today, which is a lot more than can be said for RS who really seemed to not take this seriously at all.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

They had no idea what RS and E-14 was gonna be..
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