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e14 Contributor over 10 years ago

Is there a way to pre-order or get on a waiting list for the Pi Zero?

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    0 rew over 10 years ago

    If you find a way, will you let me know? :-)

     

    (= the answer is "no" as far as I know).

    (Farnell normally allows you to order stuff as "backordered", but for stuff like "raspberry pi" the enormous amounts of backordered items would bog down their system that they don't do that anymore. I think that's the reason they removed it from their site for now.)

     

    Similarly, the pi hut (where I got mine) says "sold out" and does not take backorders.

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    0 rew over 10 years ago

    If you find a way, will you let me know? :-)

     

    (= the answer is "no" as far as I know).

    (Farnell normally allows you to order stuff as "backordered", but for stuff like "raspberry pi" the enormous amounts of backordered items would bog down their system that they don't do that anymore. I think that's the reason they removed it from their site for now.)

     

    Similarly, the pi hut (where I got mine) says "sold out" and does not take backorders.

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    0 e14 Contributor over 10 years ago in reply to rew

    I remember when the original B first came out.  There were hundreds of thousand people trying to order the first day.  That was in February.  I finally got mine in late June.  Other waited months longer than that.  And the logistics were a total mess.

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