New Shipping dates

I checked today on my March 2nd order, and I'm still trying to pick myself up off the floor.

First date I got was March 5th .. Then the 30th,  next was April 5th, then the 15th.. May 14th ..

WHEE .. I'm next in line !! ..

Boy .. was I mistaken .. when I checked today .. it's now  AUGUST 16th !

I checked today on my March 2nd order, and I'm still trying to pick myself up off the floor.

First date I got was March 5th .. Then the 30th,  next was April 5th, then the 15th.. May 14th ..

WHEE .. I'm next in line !! ..

Boy .. was I mistaken .. when I checked today .. it's now  AUGUST 16th !

It is getting slightly ridiculous now...

There was an official update on 27 April about shipping dates: http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/04/27/delivery-update--27th-april:

Hi Everyone,

We're excited to report that our next shipment of 4,000 Raspberry Pi's has now left our manufacturers in Asia and will be on their way to customers next week! We have a further 12,000 Raspberry Pi's due to arrive by the third week of May. We will have regular volume shipments thereafter. By early next week, all 110,000 customers who have ordered with element14 - wherever you are in the world - will receive a confirmed delivery date. As previously communicated, this will be no later than the end of June for those who ordered before April 18th.

I didn't get a confirmation e-mail on the week of 30 April, so I sent a polite e-mail to Newark customer service.  Here was their reply:

Hello John,

You should receive this [your RasPi] before the end of June, we still have no exact date.  I do apologize, we do not have a list for the orders.  Any further updates will be posted at the link below. Thank you for your patience.

http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi?view=overview

The August 16th date is bogus.  My order at newark.com says the same thing.  I've read elsewhere that it's just a default placeholder until your board is about to ship.

I also didn't recieved any confirmed delivery date. But I asume it as normal as I don't really now what was happening with orders in my country (all were locked if you didn't pay months in advance). This morning I had my order cancelled definitely because I'm not ok with this kind of bad treatment to customers forcing them to pay for something so much time prior to delivery.

Maybe, if I ever order again with Farnell/element14 in the future, this changes and things follow a "normal" path. But, right now, this is the worse chaos I should have never seen (and I have been years waiting for the openpandora).

There is an update from Jenny Peters that says that in addition to the 12000 units

scheduled to arrive from the factory this week, there are 30000 more units

scheduled to arrive before the end of May, and then 3 more large deliveries in June.

This news hasn't made it into the FAQ here yet, but hopefully soon.

Jenny also claims to know who has the master list of orders!

JennyPeters on May 13, 2012 at 8:50 pm on the RPI.org forum wrote:

"I dont have the full usa list currently so will have to wait for tomorrow but i will do then. I keep saying this and I know its not helpful but Newarks system is wrong and its really not worth checking there right now. I know that’s unimpressive and we’re trying to fix it – its making it hard for our internal and ‘chat’ teams to answer queries too. The newark team understand the frustration its causing and are doing everything they can to fix it. We just want to be honest, however I know who has the master list of orders and she has been helping me update here…..so will check and revert asap. We have our largest shipments yet arriving…..12,000 mid May, over 30000 end may and then 3 more large deliveries in the first few weeks of June so fully believe we will meet the commitment that “all orders placed by April 18th will be delivered by end June”…………so bear with us"