Hello
Did anybody of you give a business card at Farnell's booth at "embedded world" and got into the "interested"-queue? I got some generall Farnell advertising a couple of weeks later but until now not one single (personal) message remotely connected to the RasPi. I'd say they put me into the "general exhibition contacts" and *not* into the "Raspberry customers".
I registered interest with RS some time after I got that Farnell general ad mentioned and they sent me a preorder-key about 1 1/2 weeks agou. Of course I preordered, including entering credit card etc. but they did not yet tell me when or if I'll get a board. We'll see.
I registered interest again through the element14-website when I could be sure my business card got into the wrong pot - but I am at the very end of the queue now, of course. I'll see what happens. I don't think I'll get my order invitation before normal public sale starts anyway. At least that way I can't say I was unfair; most of the people really wanting one (and beeing able to do something with it) got their board by now, I guess. A friend of mine already got his - he was ordering online at the same moment I was standig in the crowd at the Farnell booth.
By now prices on eBay got down to a level nearly comparable to Farnell's and RS's regular prices (including shipping). Maybe there's quite soon no need to order new ones since market is swamped with all those boards their buyers don't have a clue how to make it work. It was a hype after all and it's likely sales rates drop dramatically to almost 0 by the end of the year, isn't it?
Regards
Peter
