Raspberry Pi Stock

Hi frednginger,

I'm not aware of any specific timeframe, but we are working very closely with Raspberry Pi to ensure we can meet the demand as soon as possible. If you haven’t been able to pre-order, register your interest so we can let you know as soon as you can order again and keep you updated with the latest on availability. 

In the meantime, we hope that you find element14 Community a fun place to hangout and talk about Raspberry Pi with your fellow enthusiasts!

Thanks!

Nicole, element14 Community Manager

@nlarson I hate to burst your bubble but 90,000+ other people and I already registered our interest with raspberrypi.org.  I personally have no clue as to why they did not share their E-Mail list with you in the first place.  There are a few Rumours going around that those who ordered(pre-ordered) may have ordered more than 1 each.  I would suggest that you should only take pre-orders of one each to see what the actual demand is.  Maybe a small questionare of how many people would like in the future and any suggestions.

@nlarson I hate to burst your bubble but 90,000+ other people and I already registered our interest with raspberrypi.org.  I personally have no clue as to why they did not share their E-Mail list with you in the first place.  There are a few Rumours going around that those who ordered(pre-ordered) may have ordered more than 1 each.  I would suggest that you should only take pre-orders of one each to see what the actual demand is.  Maybe a small questionare of how many people would like in the future and any suggestions.

I registered an interest on the raspberry pi website. As there was no check boxes saying they could share this information with other companies, I am glad they did not give this list to farnell or RS. If they did they may well have been in breach of data protection legislation.

here here on the raspberry pi mailing list. I was registered too.. so we shoudl be first in line having supported the community thus far.

That never was going to be the case. The mailing list was a device to mail people when there was news. Admitedly it failed but it never was supposed to be a queuing system and the foundation consistently refused to take pre-orders.

Privacy problems, especially with EU/UK law on such things?

They'd have had to email everyone asking permission I would think, and with laws on privacy varying in different jurisdictions (even in the EU) that would have been a headache.

Bob I have to agree.

RS Australia had not even heard of the Rasberry Pi and though I was being smart. When I assuered the Sales person I was genuine there refered me to the tech support line. When I finally got through (After being dropped off 8 times, once I reached you are "1st in the queue") the tech support engineer told be RS had no record of any such device. Element13 Australis's Web page was shredded but I managed to click on the online chat icon and get a very helpful gent whi both knew about the "PI", gave men a prioce and told be to call if I could not get the order page up. (Did so and am on the wating list) I dont know what all the fuss is about, whenever our Airlines or radio stations over here have specials or compections Wen servers crap abnd telephone exchanges die !