Just visit your local Farnell or RS distributor's website, and type in "Raspberry Pi" in the search box, then continue as per a normal mail order. RS only allows you to "Register your interest" currently (how utterly useless), but Farnell has a proper product page for it which is much more encouraging.
If you're in the UK or nearby in the EU, here's a direct link to Farnell's RasPi page:
If you are in the United States, the situation is a little weird and has changed as the hours have gone on. Farnell is a UK company and their American partner is Newark. (RS is partnered with Allied Electronics, but I digress.) If you go to http://www.newark.com you will see that one of their front page "rotating fade-in/fade out" ads is a blurb about "register your interest on Raspberry Pi" and if you click there you go to a page that will take your email address for future updates. However, if you search on part 83T1943 you will go to a page where you can actually order the Model B for $35. Originally Newark was going to tack on an additional $20 fee that was effectively the drop ship postage from Farnell in the UK direct to your doorstep via Royal Mail. They charged it on me when I ordered online and eventually got a ship date reciept in my email for May 10. Meanwhile, people complained about the $20 fee, so there was a posting from a Newark sales rep that said if you don't want to pay the $20 fee online, to call the sales rep office at 1-800-463-9275 to order instead of doing it online and ask that your order be shipped thru the Newark warehouse in South Carolina which would take 2 weeks longer to allow cargo ship delivery of the American allotment from UK to SC, avoid the $20 Royal Mail drop ship fee to you personally, and still have UPS fees attached from SC to your door. Somebody else posted that they were able to place a phone order from 1-888-827-2203 for $58 (!?!) with an estimated delivery date of April 25 - they placed their order after mine and got a two-week-earlier delivery quote. Then the real weirdness started happening. The sales rep post with this info was pulled from the forum where it was posted and Newark issued a statement that they were dropping the $20 fee for everybody and if you had been charged for it you would get a refund. Um, OK, sounds like they are now routing all US orders via the slow boat from the UK via SC - but does that mean my May 10 ship date I was quoted has slipped? I dunno. All I know is they've taken my money and I'll most likely get a RPi eventually. In the chaotic environment of the last 48 hours, that's probably all anybody can hope for. Hey, bump this post up with a "like" if you think it's useful info. Good luck!
Stock from the Raspberry Pi of the initial production quantity were limited and have already sold out. If you'd like to make sure you're aware when we can begin accepting orders again you can register your interest and we'll keep you updated with the latest on availability.
In the meantime, we hope you have fun hanging out here in the Community with all of your fellow Raspberry Pi group members! Let us know if you have any other questions!
Nicole, you and all the other element 14 admins are doing a wonderful job dealing with the crazed hoards that have descended on your board here, and the Newark folks are obviously going above and beyond, too, so thank you all. A few questions I've got - if I as a buyer have an accepted online order currently in the Newark system, does that mean I have a claim on one of the original 10,000 units that are someplace between China and the UK right now? Or did you sell the US allotment of Rpis and then take some additional quantity of "preorders" for the next batch to be manufactured before stopping preorders and then just taking email addresses? And if the latter is the case, how many people are in the "preordered for next manufacturing batch" group?
I know this has been a crazy time for all of us and I am just curious as to just how big this whole thing really is, at least on the US / Newark side. I am patient and am content to wait as you work thru chewing up this huge bite of Pi you've taken....good luck!
creado por Nicole Fusz (Larson) en Raspberry Pi - Vea la discusión completa
Hi greenman! Stock from the Raspberry Pi of the initial production quantity were limited and have already sold out. If you'd like to make sure you're aware when we can begin accepting orders again you can register your interest and we'll keep you updated with the latest on availability. In the meantime, we hope you have fun hanging out here in the Community with all of your fellow Raspberry Pi group members! Let us know if you have any other questions! Take care and thanks for joining!Nicole, element14 Community Manager
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