Ship dates?

As Greg Waters explained is how I got the expected ship date.

Thanks, I guess I was hoping for something I was missing. I understand that the first order is still being dealt with and to know that some are already getting dates, I guess I was getting over anxious. I seem to be exactly like pjc123 in how I ordered, even got my ship date email on 29 feb, but today I have nothing. Guess a little frustration showing through.

I placed my order on 3rd March and the delivery date has been moved backwards twice since then via email, My last email from Farnell was yesterday and stated :

Congratulations - Farnell element14 will deliver your Pi to you around mid May.

There was bound to be some problems I was sure from my own excitment that Pi.org would underestimate demand, But I guess we are the people riding the tidal wave of a new computing era and I for one am going to sit and wait and hope it all works great when it finally arrives.

To the rest of you all waiting out there in Pi-land, good luck I hope yours arrives soon.

Ray

Ray,

   Really glad to hear you got some positive response from Farnell (any response would be good).

   I think it would be a wonderful proposition to have a Farnell rep give a brief overview on how they are planning to distribute future batches. I say this because if what you are saying is true, you have delivery date for an order placed 4 days after some other people here who don't have delivery dates yet.

Ray Hughes wrote:

 

I placed my order on 3rd March and the delivery date has been moved backwards twice since then via email, My last email from Farnell was yesterday and stated :

 

Congratulations - Farnell element14 will deliver your Pi to you around mid May.

 

 

Good for you Ray!

I placed my order on the 29th at 7:54.

After 3 days I called them and they told me it would be may 12th.

Today I got an e-mail stating: Congratulations - Farnell element14 will deliver your Pi to you around early June.

It would help a lot if folk would mention which country they are from, or where they have placed their order.

At present it would appear that those who ordered from Newark in the U.S.A. are having their estimated delivery dates bought forward (August to April in one case), whilst others such as Ray are seeing their order apparently slip further and further 'backwards'.

It would be good to see some consistancy between orders placed in different countries, but I suppose that is asking a bit too much!

David,

   I also purchased from Newark (canada) though it's the same company as the US which is why I have to pay and additional shipping cost to get it from the US to Canada.  That complaint aside, I check in the member's profile to see their location.

    I'm interested to see where I stand as I was told on 29 feb in the order confirmation that the ship date is 10 may. At the time the date on farnell's website for the RPi was 10 may, and it has progressively gotten later and later. As of today the date was 7 August. Those of us who ordered near the beginning have no clue of the order status.

   It's funny though as I also registered my interest on RS about 20 minutes after launch and I have yet to be able to place an order through them even though they said they would be going in the order the registrations were done.

   As ou can see, I hate a lack of info.

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.

I guess there can be many reasons for differening delivery dates. Yes I'm in the UK and have been a fairly regular customer of Farnell since long before the RaspberryPi. It may also depend on credit or debit card used. I confess I don't have a clue how Farnell or RS order systems work.

I@m sure because of all the scrutiny they are all working together to be as fair as possible to all the customers who have placed orders. I dont see any advantage for Farnell, RS or RPi if all the early customers are badly serviced.

I expected a huge amount of interest at launch but I confess to being suprised that the little gizmo that I was waiting for was more newsworthy than Lady Gaga so I expected some problems and delays. Then the ethernet port issues came up, At least it was caught before shipping to us.

Its a charity effort at the base guys and Farnell and RS are probably barely breaking even on the deal.

Good luck to us all including Farnell RS and RPi and may the future be bright and fruitful.

I have just looked at my account and it says the order was "partially shipped", then cancelled and now it is "on hold". What does that mean?