How about posting confirmation numbers when people receive their R-Pi's. That should give us some idea of expected delivery time.
Example: My Conf # is 191353. I saw a post that 160xxx has received his. That gives me about 31K to go.
Norm
How about posting confirmation numbers when people receive their R-Pi's. That should give us some idea of expected delivery time.
Example: My Conf # is 191353. I saw a post that 160xxx has received his. That gives me about 31K to go.
Norm
my conf is: 165xxx
havent recieved mine yet.
Order Cfm #: 1621xx with Newark (Canada)
Ordered just after 8AM 29 Feb 12.
Original shipping date sent on 29 Feb was 10 May 12. Newark online shipping status is blank.
Has not yet arrived.
Order confirmation on 03/03/2012, N° 165xxxxx, Italy.
Nothing new, order show "packaging" since day one.
Confirmation numbers of different countries are not sequential so not comparable (plz see raspberry.org forum in general and blog comments of Jenny from Farnell).
Zoltan,
I think that most people had read Jenny's post and understand that the confirmaion numbers are not sequential across the whole Element14 network. However, within regions they appear to be sequential with the North American market through Newark being rather clearly (still just an assumption) sequential. All people who've ordered from Newark, whether US or Canada, all have a 6-digit number and when the few people that have posted on various forums provide order date/time plus the start of their cfm #, it makes a lot of sense.
This is all to say that a lot of people want information, information that Element14 says that they can't provide. So these people who collectively are probably rather smart (another assumption
) are trying to fill in the gaps. Whether the information is 100% accurate or the basic assumptions of a sequential numbering system are correct are not is not really the prime motivation. People want to know or feel that they have a some control over what happens to them, and this is one of the ways that they cope. I know that I personally sleep a little better know that maybe I'm only about 2000 down the list in North America from someone who already has his. I can play out scenarios of "when the next batch comes in an x% goes to Farnell and they ship y% to Newark then maybe I'll get mine soon", which makes me feel all warm and happy, even if it isn't real. 
My own order on 2/29 is 169xxx and is expected to ship 8/16 (recently changed from 8/15)
I told a friend and he wanted one, so...
his order was on 3/3 is 189xxx it is expected to ship 8/16
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// Just a note:
// After the Newark site resumed operation, I first registered interest, because sales were blocked.
// A few hours later I placed my order during an ordering window which then soon closed.
// Days later I got a message, "thanks for expressing interest, your place is being held, you
// may order now." I placed the order for him in "my slot."
// I wondered if "his" order would be before mine since the expression of interest was placed
// before the order was placed.