end of "register your interest" at element14

Still waiting to be able to order.  I keep getting the:  "Please try the link in your email again later, we still have your place in line." page.  What is going on?  I have been doing this for days.  You have taken a great idea and made it a real pain.

Technically, on Monday, mid-July will have been and gone, too...

selsinork wrote:

 

Hmm.. wild guessing by people with names highlighted in green, go figure.

Whenever I see an admin's name at the RasPi forum, I think of Green for Danger (1946), the classic British WWII medical policier starring Alastair Sim as a quirky Scotland Yard man.  One has to be very careful what one says in a thread with admin comments.  Here be green Dragons.

I'm seeing "100 available to ship today" at this link:

http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberry-pi-model-b-board-only/dp/83T1943?Ntt=2081185

(but not at other links)

Seems they must have received the next delivery. the uk site now says "3,330 in stock for next working day delivery (UK stock)"

Seems that Morgaine may have got her wish and they're now available ex-stock ?

Given the number of posts we still seem to see from people who ordered months ago and still havent received theirs you have to wonder what's happening.

au.element14.com shows "3330 deliver in 6 - 7 working days from our UK warehouse" and with only 100 @ newark it's clear there's still some way to go to sort out distribution..

So if farnell have got to the point where they have stock, I wonder if some enterprising bod has tried to sell some to RS to help clear their backlog ?

selsinork wrote:

 

Seems that Morgaine may have got her wish and they're now available ex-stock ?

I'll believe it when I see it at Farnell UK.  Currently only the accessories are normal ex-stock items, while for the Pi itself it says:

• "Order today for expected delivery within 5 weeks."

and it redirects such preorders to export.farnell.com with all the non-account silliness that that entails.  In other words, no change.

Morgaine.

Instead of taking the consumer re-direct, try the business route. It currently says "3,293 in stock for next working day delivery (UK stock)".

Seeing is believing though, I'll let you know if the ones I have on back-order via the business route turn up early next week. If they have stock then they should..

>Currently only the accessories are normal ex-stock items

I'm seeing "available soon" for the accessory bundles.

http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi2.html?isRedirect=true&ICID=raspberrypigroup_us

This morning uk.farnell.com is back to 'awaiting delivery',  newark still showing 100 available to ship today.  So we're left guessing what the actual state of affairs is again.

ORP054xxx order from 3rd July has aparrently shipped @17:36 today.

I'd love to be a "fly on the wall" in the Farnell Procurement Dept ... the rate of "WTF !!!" exclamations must be pretty interesting.

I would love to get some response from them. It's been days now, I message the customer support regarding my order nearly every day, nothing, no answer no anything. And when I read in the forum here, I'm not the only one.

I would love to get some response from them. It's been days now, I message the customer support regarding my order nearly every day, nothing, no answer no anything. And when I read in the forum here, I'm not the only one.

It's all part of the Pi "WTF???!!!" experience.

Someone's going to write a book about all this, and it's going to be pretty funny.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

It's all part of the Pi "WTF???!!!" experience.

 

Someone's going to write a book about all this, and it's going to be pretty funny.

It's the Rasperry Pi "transcendental" experience.

John Beetem wrote:

 

It's the Rasperry Pi "transcendental" experience.

I think most rational people interested in Pi transcended in the first few hours of 29 Feb-1 Mar.  The rest of us are still too busy laughing to transcend.

You guys are incredibly needy, the Raspberry Pi might not be for you right now if you can't handle some uncertainty. This is pretty much par for the course for dealing with big electronic suppliers like this, too, industrial customers are used to it. Try canceling and looking again next year, by then the supply chain should be solid.

Anyway, I just got my shipping confirmation. I ordered a few hours after coder27 posted that it was possible; the 10 day lead time is pretty awesome, but actually throws a wrench in my plans since I'd taken another couple of contracts expecting 4 more weeks before I got the units. Oh well, can't complain about speedy delivery!