Still waiting for delivery date?

I have ordered mine on May 10, received a mail talking about dispatching from July 9, credit card money taken on July 7 and then absolutely nothing.

Was my order shipped or not?

Giangregorio wrote:

 

I have ordered mine on May 10, received a mail talking about dispatching from July 9, credit card money taken on July 7 and then absolutely nothing.

Was my order shipped or not?

On the one hand, it's unlikely that people who order may 10th end up getting their 'pi around now. As far as I know, they promised "everybody who ordered before april 18th will get their 'pi before end of june", and then they had that date slip by about a week and told everybody about it. Now they seem to be slipping another week, but not telling anybody about it. So, if  my guessing is correct, this week they are shipping orders done mid april.

On the other hand, they promised to take money when they ship, and you have two hints that they are shipping YOUR 'pi: the note you got and the money being taken.

Farnell has a big contract for their normal packages: Next day delivery for a reduced rate. The big lot of raspberry pi's that they are shipping now are not all going out under that "next day delivery contract". That would be much more expensive. So many people are reporting that they got it through another service than "UPS next day".

In the beginning they had not yet figured out how to send using other services. So those went out with the standard "next day" delivery. On the other hand, I ordered with my business account and maybe that triggers the normal "business shipping" with them. So David got his "next day", but maybe he ordered using a business account like me, or maybe his 'pi shipped when they hadn't figured out the cheaper/slower sending options yet.

So if yours is not delivered after 1 day(*), I would suggest you hold your horses and wait for a 'pi surprise before the week is over... 

(*) It is the 11th today, so it can still be delivered after two days.

Does selecting the "Business" path on export.farnell.com take you into the normal Farnell account orders stream, even when your account is not a business account?  I  think perhaps I should have done that back in April.  Then my order might have been processed through my normal Farnell account, instead of being unlinked to any account at all which is quite bad.

Does selecting the "Business" path on export.farnell.com take you into the normal Farnell account orders stream, even when your account is not a business account?

Yes it does.

At least in the UK it was possible to do that and register an account on the spot. The obvious difference is that it's a card account, not a credit account, but that seems to make no difference.

Does selecting the "Business" path on export.farnell.com take you into the normal Farnell account orders stream, even when your account is not a business account?

Yes it does.

At least in the UK it was possible to do that and register an account on the spot. The obvious difference is that it's a card account, not a credit account, but that seems to make no difference.

Here in NL, they require you to provide your business identification numbers before they let you create an account. As far as I know.

I wonder if there's a way to link a previous non-account Pi order which has already been received to a normal uk.farnell.com account, so that it appears in order history.  Same name, same credit card, so there's no good reason to deny it.  I guess it just depends on whether Farnell processes make that possible.

Well, I'm guessing it's not easy/possible.

My  business orders are simply orders for a farnell-item. Nothing else.

The raspberry pi orders seem to be handled competely separate with ORP numbers that do not in any way relate to orders in the normal farnell systems. ORP = Order for Rasberry Pi ?

I thought ORP meant Order Requires Patience

amjl2000 wrote:

 

I thought ORP meant Order Requires Patience

Yeah, looks like it's true

amjl2000 wrote:

 

I thought ORP meant Order Requires Patience

Hahaha.  +1

Here in NL, they require you to provide your business identification numbers before they let you create an account. As far as I know.

Seems not, just tried

However the sticky part is that your payment choices are On Account or Corporate Purchase Card. So not sure if that excludes non-business customers. Here in the UK there's the additional option of Credit / Debit Card which pretty much lets any old consumers in

Given that a load of stuff ends up shipped from Belgium anyway you have to wonder why the differences, aren't we all part of the EU these days ?  Presumably if you order in NL it gets shipped from Leeds or Belgium regardless, so what would stop you ordering from the uk site ?   Other than some internal decision that you can't.

Hmm. My 'pi was shipped from UK (to NL).

I ordered some components yesterday. Two "your order has shipped" notices, and this morning: two packages. One from Belgium, one from Leeds. (according to tracking info).