Ship dates?

I think you are looking at the list of order status definitions, not the status of your order.

Oh, you're right. Duhhhh...!

My order is still "Processing" and I have a delivery date of "early May" - "Congratulations!" - which seems to suggest it is one of the first 10,000 because that was the reason for the mail (the much discussed "manufacturing delay").

Hey ho, I probably don't have that much time to play with it anyway!

Thanks

JonB

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've preordered mine the very first day as it was launched. I did it in Taiwan (element14 tw location) and I didn't get any feedback from them until now. There is no email or any kind of notification about the possible date. So many words about how Raspberry Pi will help to learn coding and help people in their projects, but from what I see, there are just only bla-bla-bla and no real hardware in hands. I may advertise a computer with cost of $2 and beat Raspberry Pi, as nobody gets both. Sorry for this expression of disappointment. It was the biggest one within the whole year. Hope there will be some notification to estimate, if it is better to reorient my projects for more expensive hardware, rather wait too long.

I was first given the ship date of march 13, on march 13 th the ship date was move to march 30th and today it has been set to ship on August 30th. I give up .

I recommend examining chicken entrails or reading the tea leaves.  This will provide you with a far more accurate time estimate than anything forthcoming from RS, Farnell, or the Foundation currently.

The lack of informed, consistent and authoritative information has been nothing but appalling.  Slippage is perfectly understandable, problems like the RJ45 connector are not uncommon, but that's not been the problem here.  The problem has been wholesale misinformation from the Foundation and lack of the slightest consistency in responses from the two distributors.

I've never seen a shambles anything like this before, and I've been in this game a long time.

On the positive side:  the news that the boards are being put through full certification is extremely good.  The reason why it's good is because it indicates that they really do intend to manufacture in large volumes, and that's the only thing that will end this disaster:  building millions of units.  That said, there is even misinformation about certification, because the Foundation claims that the distributors are doing it, and the distributors say that the Foundation is doing it.  It's just so typical of how badly this project is being run.

When both companies have thousands of units *IN STOCK* then the troubles will end, and not before.

Morgaine.

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.