Raspberry Pi Stock

I also never received any e-mail. this is kind of sad, i was following r-pi project since november and had hopes that i'd be able to finally get it. no dice, rs had confusing "show interest" page and i didn't fill it because r-pi twitter said "If you're only seeing "register an interest" on RS's site, you're on the wrong page.". unfair and uncool

hope mass production will start soon.

Lots of people didn't get the e-mail.  IIRC, RasPi said the list was around 100K people so they sent e-mail out in batches to prevent server overload.  One theory is that even then some e-mail servers saw so much e-mail from a single source that they assumed it was spam and discarded it or tagged it as spam.  Some recipients who thought they hadn't received the e-mail did find it buried in their spam folders, others never got it at all.

The factory in China let them down. I think in the end there was so much in progress that they could not move the launch date.

Sorry, but that would have cost them two phone calls. One to RS, another to Farnell, calling it off. And I don't think that neither Farnell or RS would have incured any cost from postponing the launch date. Both were apparently not prepared at all for the launch.

And then they could have retracted their statement on their website about that big upcomming event, and that would have been it. I mean, they are working on this for six years. A few more weeks until the ship sailed into the harbor would have been nothing.

Hi "oldtimer"  sorry you weren't able to get a Raspberry Pi the other day - I'm sure that's dissapointing, but I hope you're able to get in on the next round when they become available again!   If Luke has a Pi - he was very lucky to get one before most people.  Perhaps he has a prototype?  Luke, would you chime in to let us know where you got your Raspberry Pi, please? 

Regarding if RS Components ever had supplies - I can't confirm as I don't work for RS - sorry about that.  I wish I knew the answer!

Hi mouseyb - sorry you spent 2 hours trying to order your Raspberry Pi this week - I know that can be really frustrating.    I'm not sure why your delivery date changed - I'll touch base with our team here and see if I can find out what happened.  - Nicole

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.

I think Farnell have handled this a lot better than RS - at least there is some idea that you've placed a pre-order, or that they've stopped taking them, rather than being told by RS "thank you for your interest, we'll get back to you at some point".

I rather got the impression that with RS, they will notify you when they have stock, then it's first-come-first-served so I think (if I'm right) they will get another feeding-frenzy on their site, and not even a fair one, if those that registered first have to fight it out amongst everyone else to get their order in.

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.

I have one of those emails from RS. I will wait to see whether they stand by their statement. /sobs.

I haven't, (despite filling in the form within minutes of 0600) *sobs harder*