Ship dates?

Well....lets hope this is not right. It's a little disheartening to find out that after fighting and clawing (hitting F5 a gazillion times) to get a Pi ordered on the launch day that someone who ordered last week will get theirs before me.

well, sure Farnell has issues with RPi orders, for example mine is both registered and packaging. XD

My order got pushed back to August too. My coworker who just ordered 5 mins ago will get his before me? That's not right.

Maybe they're just following the Bible:

"So the last will be first, and the first will be last." Matthew 20:16 NIV

;-)

At least there is some activity there my est ship date stayed at Mar 30 so long I thought it might be broke but I wasn't expecting August 16 either. I have a feeling that they will catch it and move the date up though, I can't believe that Newark (Farnell) would completely disregard the "First Come First Served" premise that this whole order system was based upon.

Oh they didn't, trust me.

I E-Mailed them with a very distrought message and they assured me positions in the queues had not been changed. They can only provide an ETA when they get the devices shipped to them

As of when I last called them (Around the 23'rd of March), they don't have a proper date to estimate to people.

Hi there - we found out the cause for this jump to August - it was a system auto-generated error from our website to Newark element14 customers.  So sorry for this confusing messaging.   We've recently posted a discussion regarding the specifics of the issue here: http://www.element14.com/community/thread/17532. 

Additionally, Raspberry Pi Foundation has communicated about this issue as well:

https://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/185128191529193473

Thanks,

Nicole

Thank you for your responses and updates, Nicole.

It's a breath of fresh air in a project that is suffering greatly from lack of official communications.  Given good information, communities are generally very tolerant and understanding of delays, so this helps a lot.

Morgaine.

When it arrives it arrives.  Who cares; it is just a toy to play with and a way to support education.  Besides, the longer they postpone delivery due to problems, it gives their competition more time to lower their prices and/or come up with better products, and gives me time to cancel my order if that happens.

I noted that the "lead time" estimate on the RPi item page at Newark has reverted to Aug 17th again.  Moreover, it used to have "stock arriving" in April and "additional stock" in August.  Now both dates are in August.

It appears more and more that even the lucky few in the first 10k probably won't see theirs until August.  So where does that leave the other 100k+ people who want one?

I'm becoming less and less enthusiastic when I hear that the first 2k just arrived in the UK and that the other 8k (remainder of the 10k) are just finishing production. I'm sure I'm not the only one that understood that around 29 Feb 10k RPi had been built.  Now we hear that only around 2k had been completed.

Why can't we hear what the "big plan" is?  We all know that there have been issues...ethernet port...compliance testing...but someone at the two companies must have some plan.  Negotiations for future orders, packaging and shipping, redistribution through their reseller chains, etc.  According the the compliance testing post at the RaspberryPi.org site, RS has people on site in China to watch the production and testing.  I can't believe that a UK company would have people travel to China (can't be cheap) without a firm plan on how they will procure and sell this product. 

For the sake of our sanity, can't someone "official" provide a real update laying out the whole plan?