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New Shipping dates

GreenYamo

Looking at the Pi forum and also from personal experience, it looks like Farnell have just released another set of mails with shipping dates, ranging from early May (W/C 7th in my case) to W/C 28th May, so if you haven't received an e-mail yet, it may be worth checking your spam/ junk mail folder.

 

Pleased as I only got a mail last weekend, stating a W/c 4th June shipping date...but as ever, I'll wait until it is in my hand until I believe it :-)

 

Steve

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  • Steve,

    Wonderful to hear that people are actually receiving their RPs. I hope they are everything we've expected and have the impact on promoting interest in programming that was intended.

     

    However, unless you ordered yours before end of April, or happen to live in the UK, or are just lucky, all the dates being bandied about for June seem wildly optimistic.

     

    After ordering and paying on March 3rd, I eventually got a fuzzily worded email stating a ship date in June. My experience w/qualified promises being what it is, I emailed the seller to confirm. After multiple emails they finally said "the system" still shows a ship date of mid-August (about 6 months).

     

    Visionary aims, manufacturing and QA problems, "first come, first served", I get all that. And, I gather there is an enormous fan base for this project - I'm in support of it too. I bought this for my kids and when they're done w/it will donate it to their school. I guess an August delivery will still work - don't really have much choice. Summer being what it is they won't have learned programming by the time this latest (and I DO mean LATEST) ship date rolls around. But, really, if they'd had it in hand they could have learned basic programming in 6 months.

     

    Sure hope these things work as promised once they arrive!

     

    I truly do hope the June dates come to pass, but I wouldn't be placing any bets on it at this point.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    To be fair and accurate, I gave payment details but my account wasn't charged yet and won't be until the items ship (whenever that is...). And customer service w/element14 tells me that there are 34,000 of the things on (back)order. No way of telling where I am in line (or the queue image), but that's a lot of orders to fill w/the shipments of 12,000 and 13,000 or so that are being discussed. Whew!

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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    To be fair and accurate, I gave payment details but my account wasn't charged yet and won't be until the items ship (whenever that is...). And customer service w/element14 tells me that there are 34,000 of the things on (back)order. No way of telling where I am in line (or the queue image), but that's a lot of orders to fill w/the shipments of 12,000 and 13,000 or so that are being discussed. Whew!

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