Raspberry Pi

[Cloudane]

Somehow I have a feeling these will sell out in seconds.

A pain as I need to try and order two (and they're limited to one per person), one for myself, and one for my dad as a late part of his birthday present

[Deckard]

And in a similar vein http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/worlds ... pre-order/

[Firefox]

6am tomorrow!
(weds 29th)

doesnt say if thats when they are actually on sale, but thats when the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT is happening.

yes, 6am GMT. so i guess i'll be getting up a bit earlier than usual before work...

I'm not going to be best pleased if I get up at 6am and the big announcement turns out to be that they're changing the logo or somesuch...

[Cloudane]

So did even this site get slashdotted from people wanting to vent or something?

After trying from 06:00 this morning I *finally* managed to get a pre-order in with Farnell at 08:30. The existing stock sold out within half an hour, and would've much quicker had the servers not been melting.

Estimated shipping date for mine, now well into the build-to-order stuff, is w/b 26th March...

[Misfit]

The RS page is now expression of interest:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisp ... aspberrypi

The Farnell site is still suffering under the strain.

[Zzap64!]

Some c**t, already on Ebay selling for £49.99 each! Wankers honestly (and he has 31 of them). Probably an employee of RS etc.

Farnell are now out of stock and have a 4 week lead time for new stock. (I called them earlier).

[Cloudane]

Yeah they did their best to prevent the eBay profiteers but sadly - impossible to completely prevent

Surprised he's selling them that "cheap". With the demand he could probably gouge some 3 digit sum, and I'm sure a good handful will do just that

[stealthbanana]

Picture he is showing is an Alpha board. Another that is selling them for £45 is stating that he is selling them as a pre order and will take a few weeks. Bare cheek.


Seems that RS are actually not selling them until later in the week, so will hold on. Did see one ebay scammer that had a pic of a RS sold screen that looked like it took 30 seconds in Paint.

[toxibunny]

Model A's had a ram upgrade to the same as the model B. Because it's without the built-in USB hub/ethernet gubbins, it could turn out to be the better of the two - it has the potential to run as a USB device and not just a host...

[disciple]

Got up at 6am, saw they were being sold through Farnell's. Unsurprised to find the website down I phone Farnell, am put on hold.

6:30am call is answered, an obviously stressed woman tells me there's no such item on the system and she knows nothing at all about it. Great, well done!

6:45am, go back to bed.

[dom]

On the one hand it's a marketing wet dream - so much interest that the website is unable to cope with the demand, on the other hand, Raspberry Pi did warn them, and it seems Farnell have sold out and RS don't even have them available yet.

I'd be very interested to know the actual numbers in terms of people who tried to buy.

[wanye]

well i got an order in at about 7:45am, but by all accounts, it will be for the second batch, and estimated delivery is the 26th march

ah well. i'm in no rush, i just thought it might be nice to get one of the first batch.

RS and farnell have handled this terribly though. surely they had some sort of idea of demand, but it would seem there was no planning or increasing capacity to cope, resulting in a lot of frustrated and angry people.

the hotukdeals thread on it is funny. completely full of idiots who dont even know what it is for, they just see £25 pc that runs xbmc and then slashdot the sites and/or write angry crap on the forum thread. argh!

[Jimaroid]

It's not really a surprise. The RS and Farnell websites have always been awful. They're both still printed catalogue companies at heart.

I'm on the expressed interest list with RS. Couldn't even get to the Farnell front page.

[Cloudane]

I love how people have been calling Farnell and RS "Slashdotted" - when the yesterday's-news-tomorrow site itself hasn't even gotten around to the story yet...

[toxibunny]

farnell page is here, when it's working... http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/rasp ... dp/2081185