Anyone had their delivery date slip ?

Just got a follow up email from Farnell and i was initially down for the WC 26/3/2012 but now it's slipped until the 23/04/2012

Bit disapointed as since i'd have thought they shouldn't need 2 months even if it's being manufactured from scratch for my order.

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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

@Thomas: You should recive an email.

@Brad: Search on http://www.farnell.com/
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

Same here, end of April.
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

I ordered mine at 4.30pm yesterday after eventually getting in (I managed to bypass the 'register interest' link which had gone up somehow) - my date was set at 23rd April
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

I just placed my order today from newark and it's expected to ship April 3rd. Did any of your dates change again? I don't see why mine would be before any of yours.
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

I guess you will have to consider yourself lucky depending on where you are in the distribution chain for Farnell/Newark and RS. As I noted before, my shipping date is 10 May and I ordered around 10AM on 29 Feb. I should receive it before the previous poster that ordered on 1 March, however it seems I will get it 5 weeks later.

It seems that the distributors are going to get the R-Pi's from China sent to the UK. If you live in/near the UK, you'll get them shortly afterwards. If you live in the US, you'll need to wait for them to be re-shipped from the UK to the US with the appropriate delays for loading/unloading/customs. If you live in a 3rd-world country like Canada, you'll need to wait until they are re-shipped to Canada with the appropriate delays for loading/unloading/customs.

I've seen that US customers have complained that they were going to be charged $20 for direct shipping by Royal Mail from the UK to the US. Right now this would be a bargain for Canadians who would get their R-Pi's weeks earlier and probably a lot cheaper as UPS from the US charge Canadians about $10 to collect our federal VAT.
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

I order the ras pi at 8am on 29 from farnell with delivery date 26 march. and now it put back till 24 april .it a real letdown .anyway how come customers
that order ther ras pi on the 1 march have earlier delivery date as i live in ireland.
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

I order @ 08:16 GMT+1 --> estimated delivery 16 April
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SupremeSpod over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Someone has taken a leaf out of Sir Clive Sinclair's Book "How to Mismanage Your Customers Expectations!"

It's the 1980s all over again!

Sinclair couldn't manage it, Oric had their problems too. No wonder the UK is heading down the tubes rapidly.
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Same here, 16 of April.
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cnxsoft over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Same here, no delivery date. I ordered from Element14 Singapore durign the 1st hour, got the acknowlegment, but no delivery date inside. It just says my order was Received..
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