Nice looking forward to getting my order date :D

I am extremely impressed with the speed of my Pi’s delivery. I placed my order (I was there at launch night, but ordered unfortunately late) on Tuesday, it arrived today, Thursday! I look forward to spending my summer coding and learning!

(I think it was RS, but am not sure. My parents dealt with the ordering, myself only being 16 next week. For reference, I am in Tennessee. (That is, in the US.))

I got the invitation yesterday. But I can’t order Raspberry Pi because my country not in list (on the order page). Why is not possible to deliver in Russia?

Definitely looking forward to it; our Ubuntu California team will be in attendance with a Raspberry Pi as well. I believe we’re in the ‘Bay Area Linux Groups’ booth along with BerkeleyLUG.

Maybe we should play some Quake.

“As always we will be regularly updating our FAQs”

So why is there information on there that was only valid before the first 700 shipped, and no information about any subsequent deliveries? Your other customers may be interested in what a Raspberry Pi is and so forth, but we’ve got all that on the forums here. What we want from your FAQ is where you are in reducing the backlog, when you will be taking orders and when boards will be delivered. Your FAQ singularly fails to give this information.

Funny how 25.000 additional customers registered on launch day since last week. How come last week there were 75.000 of them and now it’s 100.000? Methinks that if you want to gain confidence from your customers you have waiting for months, you’re better off avoiding to provide obviously inaccurate info.

My Pi is now on order!!! Woohoo!!! Can’t wait to start work poring my favourite hobby OS (AROS) to it!! :)

ps… Why doesn’t this site like my email address?!?

Interesting that their FAQ hasn’t been updated since the 17th of April.
Or that there’s nothing regarding those removed from the list.
I’ve got my Pi now, but I can’t be the only one that was removed for no reason.

If you think you should have a Pi by now, it’s worth emailing RS and asking if you’re still in the queue. I’m really disappointed that no-one’s made any kind of official statement about that.

Hi,

Thanks to RS for ramping the production up. I was very happy to receive an email from them yesterday and ordered as fast as I could type ;-)

If you spend just two or three days in the USA the jet lag does not really set in. There was one guy here who used to spend every other week in the USA, therefore swapping time zones each week. Perhaps there was a pharmaceutical solution to prevent insanity :-/

Best regards,

Will

Yesterday I received my Raspi :) but because there was an error on server side I was charged double. Unfortunately RS does not respond to my e-mails. Is someone form RS is reading it like the post from Farnell?

Jo,
I know if I had received mt Pi I would not be writing this, but sadly what you say each week does not give me any confidence in RS at all. Rather I think you are completely inundated by the volume of orders but are afraid to admit it.
I submitted my registration at 6.20 GMT on the 29 February. Because of the chaos I submitted a further registration about an hour later. On the 3 March I received 2 emails thanking me for my registration. I assumed that I was therefore in the queue and would get one PI in due course. So far nothing. As has already been said one minute its 75000 then its 100000. Even so I would have expected to have been invited to order by now if there was some time ordering of the queue.
I am left with a feeling that either RS treats its customers with contempt or it wishes it had never heard of Raspberry PI
Roy

Hope you enjoy your visit Liz, and we will of course look forward to reading a full report on your return! ;)
Good news about the RS deliveries also… especially for those (like myself) who were unable to express an interest on ‘launch day’.
Could you please clarify though if Jo is based in the UK, or the USA, as I am getting the impression that they are currently receiving a bit more information regarding estimated delivery dates than we are here at the moment.
Thanks.

I received the mail from RS and ordered yesterday.

I hope I will receive my PI soon!

Just got my order through, looking forward for the device.

I posted this in the forums but it’s a bit lost in the noise. After ordering, I had the apologetic error message some have reported, and tried again with the same result. Shortly after, my bank sent me two SMS notifications that my credit card had been charged, and these two charges have now shown up on my statement. Next day, I tried again, with order confirmation this time from the RS site — and another confirming SMS. The third charge (a slightly different amount because I changed something else on the order) has now shown up.

I replied to the confirmation email from RS, and have had no response. Is anyone reading this able to get an answer from RS as to what’s going on, or should I ask my credit card provider to cancel the bogus transactions? Judging from the forums, I’m not the only one with this problem.

And no, I’m not expecting 3 of them to show up.

I plan to be at the Maker Faire on Saturday afternoon with my kids. I hope to stop by and have a brief chat about the progress being made on Raspbian. It’s not quite ready for prime time, but it’s coming along nicely. The early users are reporting the Raspberry Pi optimized Debian port running stable and efficiently.

Hi,

Is it possible to order a Raspberry from France ? How to know if we are in queue ?

Thx

Had my invitation to order today ! All done, delivery expected within 3 weeks.

Ordered on Thursday, kids 10 and 13 are nearly as excited as their Dad!

me too

Just ordered mine! Now to pick an SD card! =D

And when will farnell ship? My order is from “29/02/2012 07:08”, but I didn’t get mine yet. Hey, come on, in PDF they sent me in March there was something about 24/04/2012. And it’s middle of may.

Ordered mine Thursday afternoon, already got myself a couple of SD cards, a 2A PSU, Bluetooth, WSB Hub has enough space in the rear to accomodate the Pi :-)

Only about 3 weeks to wait………

Just ordered mine having had the magic email. RS website VERY SLOW and frustrating. USB powered hub, power supply, SD cards already bought: now to wait three weeks or so. :(
Many thanks to all for their help here on the site, their encouragement to everyone – and of course the RaspberryPi project team themselves.

Got my email yesterday and placed my order. The waiting continues, but at least there is now light at the end of the tunnel. Only problem now is what to try first?.

Liz, when you have time can you please have someone from RS look into my order. I’m in the US and have already contacted Allied, but they didn’t even know that the Pi was being shipped yet. I was fortunate enough to be invited to place my order last week and used my PO Box as the shipping addess (since that’s also my billing address.) I didn’t know that they were using DHL to ship. I fear the PO Box may pose a problem. Let me know what info you need. Thanks!

I’ve registered my interest for one, but haven’t gotten the opportunity to place a pre-order just yet. I hope manufacturing will get up to full speed soon so everyone patiently waiting can place their orders.
For now I’ll remain patient and continue dreaming up more ideas of what to use this guy for and how to cope with only being able to order one.

It seems like others have better luck with the ordering process, when I hear so many already having their Pi. I registered as soon as humanly possible with RS, it took 10 mins with all the web lag though. I got store invite on 15th and processed my order as fast as I could, but it looks like I still won’t get it before my birthday at the end of May.

Will the team have any PI’s for sell? i really want one and im still in the queue.

Registered interest on launch day(night?), still no email.

Serious frustration.

Cayce Pollard, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien’s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can’t move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

Can some one confirm, I have just received the RS email inviting me to buy, BUT instead of going to rs-online.com the purchase link takes me to eu.re-email.com?

I can find no way of using the code on the actual rs-online web site? Is this invite a phising email?

Why is RS sending people to a “none” standard site? I have delt with RS for years and always access their services via their main protal.

Hi,
Just wondering if one can find out where one lies in the QUEUE.
Champing at the bit with impatience…
Ta

RS delivered my Pi (to Australia) last Friday and I have not seen daylight for over 48 hours. This is amazing work guys! Thank you!

I registered my interest on March 1 and again on March 9. Would it be possible for RS to just confirm with us that we are, in fact, still in the queue? Or can RS give us something to the effect of ‘all registrations from have been processed or invited to purchase’? I’m trying to lesson plan for the fall semester. If there’s a Pi in my future (before July 1) I’ll leave some teaching time open for it. If I’ve ‘fallen through the cracks’ and won’t be seeing one by that time, I’ll move ahead with other plans. Is there any indication that the education Pi’s will be ready for classrooms before Christmas?

Dear RS, it feels very frustrating when we read how great everything is going and how you are inviting people to place orders, when my order with Allied from March 2nd has not been shipped yet. Are we forgotten here across the pond ? I contacted Allied several times last few weeks and on the 3rd attempt finally received a response. Never mind the no-response on first 2 inquiries, I will paste the response I got on my 3rd attempt, because it is just the “you can’t make this stuff up” type and let everyone make their own mind about it.
”
I’m sorry but there have not been any updates on this product because we ourselves have not received updates. We are at the mercy of our parent company in the UK. Our competition that is also offering these is in the same situation. As soon as we get word, all the customer’s that pre-ordered will get the email right after. Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. Thank you for your patience.

Juno Casanova | Allied Electronics
Customer Account Representative
”

Needless to say, I will think twice where I place my next order.

I need more than one device. Still waiting.

Got my email this afternoon and have already placed my order :)

Go RS :D

meanwhile if you ordered from newark, you can get bent. my ship date is still next month and I put in the morning after launch.

At Last…
I received my invitation to order yesterday afternoon. I registered my interest around 3:00 PM on the 29th February. I received my confirmation e-mail on 1st March @ 7:34 PM.

Despatching in 3 weeks.

Yay, Just got to order my RPi!

“By this time next week …We’ll also have an update on expected availability for those left in the queue…”
Could you please give us the promised information? Why do you need 2 Months (June and July) for delivering the next batch? Does it mean that people that placed their order on day 3 or later should not expect their Pies earlier than 2013?
Please start communicating with your “customers”.

I just used my code to put a RP in my basket at RS and went to get my credit card. When I clicked “Place order” it took me to the Log on screen, asked for my authentification code again and said it was invalid.

Anyone else had this problem?

-AS

Hi, i just received the Raspberry Pi, so i am buying all aditional stuff, but i have a question related to the power supply.
As i know, it must be a microUSB 5V 1Amp, i have a Blackberry power supply with MicroUSB 5V and 2Amp output. The question, is it OK to use a 5V 2Amp PSU?.
Best regards.
Enrique

My order says 3 weeks till dispatch, and I ordered on the 18th. By my calculations we are on 4 weeks tomorrow. Can I get an update? I am order number 15992

I have ordered and paid for mine on the 30th of june and still waiting for it… should i open a dispute on paypal or not???