Hi,
I have ordered in early april and the only thing I got so far is an ORP number (ORP019443). So I am still waiting for an expected delivery date? Can anybody provide a contact (email etc.) where I can get more information about the delivery state?
Thanks,
Franz
I am honestly amazed at some of the reactions on here to delays/lack of information about shipping. We have all ordered a completely new device that was only released to manufacture a few months ago and which has received orders probably well in excess of 100,000 units. How surprising would it be to find that the supply chain struggles to keep pace with demand and also has problems keeping people informed. We all surely know that the PI is a low-profit article for two major component suppliers to be selling, and that they each have a massive commercial operation to run selling their main lines of product.
Let's face it, what you have ordered is a toy, no more, no less; not having it for a few weeks won't damage your health or wealth, so would it not be advisable to stop behaving like children who have been denied an ice-cream and just demonstrate a little patience?
To react like one poster who says he is going to tell his boss to boycott Farnell and that he will throw his PI into a corner and not use it when it eventually arrives is surely a massive over-reaction and just typical of our culture that demands everything NOW!
Not my intention to upset anyone, just trying to be a grown-up! 
Holy moly Butch, where are you in the world that 9 July is on a Saturday?
Or .... maybe there's a time-schizm somewhere .... hey that's a thought - it might explain the screwd up deliveries.
Roger Wolff wrote:
(On the other hand, there might be another explanation.... :-) )
Yup, inflation. 
Holy Moly is right! I looked at the calendar wrong! How can that be? Today is the 9th of July and a Monday, doesn't that count for something? Anyway, it was truly a shock getting the 'pi so that could have confused me all weekend! 
> Yup, inflation.
Well, if space-time is doing to that again, anything could happen. We might even get our R-Pi's!
Herb Michael wrote:
> Yup, inflation.
Well, if space-time is doing to that again, anything could happen. We might even get our R-Pi's!
Oh wow! I was referring to the other kind of inflation, the kind created by inept handwavers pretending they understand money. But you're right, this could be the kind of inflation that followed the Big Bang, and it's easy to see the source of it: Pi hype! It's even obvious from the name: Pi hype[rinflation].
You're really onto something there, it would explain so many things! For example, cosmologists postulate Dark Matter to explain the missing mass of the universe, but have they even factored in the immense mass of Pi fanbois? I bet they forgot that one!
This really deserves a lot more serious thought ...
Morgaine.
Oh wow! I was referring to the other kind of inflation, the kind created by inept handwavers pretending they understand money.
(Yeah, I know 
)
But you're right, this could be the kind of inflation that followed the Big Bang, and it's easy to see the source of it: Pi hype! It's even obvious from the name: Pi hype[rinflation].
rotfl !
This really deserves a lot more serious thought ...
Well for one thing, if we are in another inflationary period, the values of various physical "constants" such as - oh..... to take any random example .....say pi - will be changing (rather rapidly). And you know that might just be reflected in my rapidly changing shipping date.
