A really thoughtful and useful development particularly like the protection:)

Richard

It was something we thought about when we realised Pi was going to be quite big (not this big: we didn’t expect it to get this big). It’s why we left value on the table for the community with things like cases. We decided not to make our own because we wanted to seem some community case businesses come up around the Pi if it was successful. It’s very much an Upton family philosophy thing: we both believe very strongly that the world needs more entrepreneurs. It makes the individual people doing the work happy; it gives people much more flexibility of choice when buying things; and being able to own your own business is *fantastic*, so I’m really, really glad to see so many of you doing that.

Don’t tell anyone Jim, but the ‘project detachability’ was something I realised after I put the first prototypes together. Rather than a ‘very clever design consideration’ it was a happy side effect. Useful though, because no matter how many Pis you buy, you always need a few more. ;)

I think it’s because the cost can only be calculated once you know where the buyer is, which is not known on the site. Would be good if they added “+P&P” though, even without a value…

I’ve had this on lots of sites`that use Paypal so if it doesn’t say “FREE P&P” in huge writing I now assume it will be added – expectation it makes it easier to swallow.

I’m very sorry about that. Nobody should have a bitter after-taste when buying one of my products. I hate that. :(

Will see what I can do to get it made clearer. It does say at the top of the page “ALL PRICES INCLUDE VAT but not delivery.” But it’s in the ‘blue banner’ part, in a small white font, so it’s probably too easy to miss.

I’m afraid the Shopify system that Cyntech (& Pimoroni & Phenoptix & many others) use is rather inflexible in many respects. It would be much better if postage was added before it went to PayPal. I pointed this out to Cyntech last week. We delayed launch for a week looking for a good solution, and found none. :( I wonder if other Shopify stores have found a way round it?

Probably the best thing to do is add some text to the product page along the lines of ‘minimum postage charge of £3’ so you’ll know it’s going to be added before it goes to PayPal.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Now I can say “I told you so” ;)

Someone should have thought of that ;)

http://rasp.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RasPiO-Breakout-Pro-Pibow-long700.jpg

If you visit the product pages you’ll see the above photo using them ‘off Pi’ with a ribbon cable (IDC connector at one end).

I expect Cyntech’s US branch will have these in stock soon and shipping should be less from there.

Yeah we always get jacked when it comes to shipping, books or electronics and software in Canada.

I wonder if the proceeds from this products sale go to the foundation at all? Just curious as it’s not really a new idea and the price is kind of high. Usually by this round in the game the clones get cheaper in price not more expensive (eg. Cobbler is like $8USD).

I just made my own for <$0.25 and a couple minutes work, but if you want save your time as it could be better spent building something worth while. There are tons of identical products on ebay for <$8 shipping included.

I won't include a link as I don't like to advertise directly for anyone but for $7.22CAD (That's total cost including shipping n' all that) there is the newer T shaped model or the original design. Search for something like 'Raspberry Pi GPIO T-Cobbler' and sort Lowest + shipping.

I agree with you, but sadly :( there isn’t anything I can do about it. Longer explanation in reply to comment #4.

Thanks Tobias.

Loved your juggling video the other day :).

The Breakout Pro won’t protect you from connecting 5V, 3V3 or GND to each other, but it does protect the Pi from other wiring errors.

It was always part of the plan to create bundles with these cables in. We’ll get to that soon. The one in the photo linked above is 20cm length.

Hi richard,
From a Canadian buyer’s perspective, this is not true.

Modmypi store:
$20 order (two pi cases) + camera case…
$9 Shipping

fresh trial (24_march_2013):
Add one $9 PI case to the basket,
$4.93 Shipping

So shipping is 50% of order
which makes more sense, and what I am used for goods coming from UK..

You will get the port labels board. We haven’t yet decided how long to run that promotion for, but it will be for at least a couple of weeks. It’s quite difficult to plan these things in full detail as you never know quite how well or how badly it’s going to go. So sometimes (but not always), vagueness is better than making a promise you can’t keep.

I’m sure we will improve the system (in areas where we can) as time goes by and we get feedback like yours.

Thanks Alex