Ship dates?

Although I expressed my interest with Farnell / Element 14 through the special website they set up on the day of the launch (Like the one RS Components had), later that same day I discovered that someone found the Newark part ordering number for the raspberry pi, so I ordered it directly from Newark to avoid the extra $20 charge (For shipping from the UK, customs duty charges, etc). That may have changed with their new pricing policy announced a couple of days ago, although I do not know how they would circumvent the customs duty charges.

My original expected ship date was May 11th, but I checked it again today, and see that it has been moved up to April 2nd. With the Ethernet jack problems and the massive popularity of the device I do not have much confidence in the new date, but it certainly would be nice.

At the launch day (29.02) after ordering I received the final confirmation mail from Farnell with an attached PDF file containing estimated delivery information (16 April).

But if I look in my account, my orders, I don't see any shipping date in my Farnell account. The field is empty.

If talking about change of shipping date do you mean that you have received another mail with renewed estimated delivery date?

Let me clarify. I did not order through “Farnell” Element 14 because I would have had to pay a $20 surcharge to ship it directly to me in the United States. Instead I ordered through “Newark” Element 14 on the launch day instead, which is the US distributor; the device is being shipped to one of Newark's US warehouses and then shipped to me. I only have to pay standard shipping and taxes (No customs fees, etc). That said, Newark Element 14 sent me an email on March 1st that stated a ship date of May 11. Today I logged into my Newark account and that date had changed to April 2nd.

Where do you see the ship dates with Newark?  I ordered on the 29th as well at 8:25am. I got a message on the same day saying my ship date was 10 may. I haven't heard anything since and the order hisotry still shows "backordered".

@ Kevin Foss - I went to My Account->Order History and clicked the link in the PO Number column. On the resulting page, the column to the right of Status (which says "Backordered") has a column labelled Ship Date/Tracking. That's where I got the "Expected Ship Date" from.

And yes, I read about the issue with the first batch of boards, and the general confusion and flux in anticipated ship dates. Just wanted to compare notes with others. I appreciate everyone's feedback and at this point I'll just be happy to get my RPI whenever it arrives. I'd rather wait a bit and not get a unit with the wrong network jack connector.

@ Kevin Foss - I went to My Account->Order History and clicked the link in the PO Number column. On the resulting page, the column to the right of Status (which says "Backordered") has a column labelled Ship Date/Tracking. That's where I got the "Expected Ship Date" from.

And yes, I read about the issue with the first batch of boards, and the general confusion and flux in anticipated ship dates. Just wanted to compare notes with others. I appreciate everyone's feedback and at this point I'll just be happy to get my RPI whenever it arrives. I'd rather wait a bit and not get a unit with the wrong network jack connector.

Interesting, the order system seems to differ depending which country your in I presume. My UK order has a "Back Order" Column with a "Tracking No" column to the Left not right which is blank.

I had an email on 29th giving W/C 12th March but nothing since.