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
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. 
