Ship dates?

I ordered mine from Farnell on March 4th. Although, I think I had registered an interest before that. Anyway, when I placed the order, it said it would ship in May, but now just checking today, it says the expected ship date is April 3rd. I'm in the US.

I live in the Southeast USA, ordered from Newark / Element14 on March 3rd, after I recieved an email update from Newark / Element14 that contained a link that said "Buy Now"

The ship date was at one time mid April, then it was bumped to May around the time of the botched Ethernet news, now the estimated shipping time shows as April 3rd.

I talked to a tech today via live chat - they said that to the best of their knowledge that's when my order would ship (April 3rd). The said the only holdup that they knew of was the Ethernet problem. They did not have any additional information but were very polite.

Hope this provides some insight and I'm patiently hoping that it really does ship within the next week. Will keep you all posted.

Josh,

It is extremely unlikely that your unit will ship soon. 

Apparently, the first batch was 1950 units, not 10000,

to be divided between Farnell and RS, and it was sold out

on the first day within minutes.  This batch apparently arrived

in the UK within the last 24 hours or so, but it is unknown

whether or when it will be distributed to customers, due to the RF

testing concern.  It may be held until certification is complete,

or if that looks like it will take a long time or be infeasible,

perhaps it may be diverted to "development partners".

It is not known how long it may take for the next batch.

Production of the next batch may be on hold pending

RF certification.

The foundation says they rely on the distributor reps at

the factory to know what's going on, and the distributors

say they rely on the foundation to know what's going on.

Make of that what you like.

coder27 writes:

> The foundation says they rely on the distributor reps at the factory to know

> what's going on, and the distributors say they rely on the foundation to know

> what's going on.  Make of that what you like.

I know what to make of it, but the words to describe it accurately cannot be used in polite company.

I actually have a fair bit of sympathy for RS and Farnell/Element14 on this issue, for four reasons:

• Companies are traditionally closed and secretive, and they don't pretend to be otherwise.
• Companies very rarely see themselves as part of a community, and don't pretend it's otherwise.
• Because they're not equal partners in a community, companies rarely feel obliged to communicate.
• Companies are almost always split functionally, which results in left-hand/right-hand problems.

So, what we're seeing is really fairly normal for technology companies.  Exceptions are quite rare.

In contrast, the Foundation has always portrayed itself as a community member, open and honest about what it does, and collaborating fully with us through open and honest communications.  HAHAHAHAHA.

This utter fiction would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

Morgaine.

Eh, they're doing it for poor kids, they don't profit much from it, they're a charity, add some other fanboysm here... What I think is that they just sold thet RPi manufacture to Farnell and RS, before it was actually a finished product. Those 2 are just doing things right, like I expected them to (compliance test for example), and ppl are just misleaded by the Foundation/Fanboy vapourtalk. Btw, Farnell is providing a grid of prices, fixing it, actually doing something, but the Foundation still has on their main web the price of the model A, 25usd... very misleading. Oh, your 2 reason became 4! XD Still right, real world companies are like that.

Eh, they're doing it for poor kids, they don't profit much from it, they're a charity, add some other fanboysm here... What I think is that they just sold thet RPi manufacture to Farnell and RS, before it was actually a finished product. Those 2 are just doing things right, like I expected them to (compliance test for example), and ppl are just misleaded by the Foundation/Fanboy vapourtalk. Btw, Farnell is providing a grid of prices, fixing it, actually doing something, but the Foundation still has on their main web the price of the model A, 25usd... very misleading. Oh, your 2 reason became 4! XD Still right, real world companies are like that.

Number fixed, thanks piovrauze.