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Anyone else trying to snag a Rasberry Pi?

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  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Farnell says they have allocated me 2 of them :) hate me!

  • yomeroyomero Member

    @netomx said: Farnell says they have allocated me 2 of them :) hate me!

    Send me one now...
    XD

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Maybe, iused two accounts to have 1 order per account... And now, in ny first account, I have 2 orders :S if I get a third one, Ill tell you (obviously paying the cost) hahaha

  • djvdorpdjvdorp Member

    @netomx said: Farnell says they have allocated me 2 of them :) hate me!

    get me one, because I transfer my buyVM to you :P

  • yomeroyomero Member

    @netomx said: Maybe, iused two accounts to have 1 order per account... And now, in ny first account, I have 2 orders :S if I get a third one, Ill tell you (obviously paying the cost) hahaha

    LOL! Lucky.

    Yes, I can pay n_n

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @djvdorp said: get me one, because I transfer my buyVM to you :P

    If I get more than 3, yes :P I just want 2.

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  • MrAndroidMrAndroid Member

    Your only allowed to order one.

    I ordered one.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Yes, they cancelled the other one indeed. And I didnt make it on purpose, it was the F5 who did it

  • BitcableBitcable Member

    @liam said: I know someone who ordered 4!

    Tell them to send one over then!

  • gsrdgrdghdgsrdgrdghd Member

    Meh why do some strange distributers that are down half of the time sell it instead of Amazon or so?

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    Affiliation ? Support ? Friends ? Fees ?
    All of the above ? :P
    M

  • AldryicAldryic Member

    They're a UK company, and wanting to support companies operating within the UK. That's why they didn't outsource to cheaper east-asia manufacturing. (This was mentioned in their site some time back).

  • AldryicAldryic Member

    Oh, they changed their minds? (It's admittedly been a few weeks since I last read their news posts)

  • AldryicAldryic Member

    Aah, oh well. Kudos to them for at least trying to keep the business within their country, can't really blame them for having to revise that plan.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    the problem was the taxes... that's why they went to China

  • u4iau4ia Member

    @Aldryc from the raspberrypi bog:

    I’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all. This means that it’s really, really tax inefficient for an electronics company to do its manufacturing in Britain, and it’s one of the reasons that so much of our manufacturing goes overseas. Right now, the way things stand means that a company doing its manufacturing abroad, depriving the UK economy, gets a tax break. It’s an absolutely mad way for the Inland Revenue to be running things, and it’s an issue we’ve taken up with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
  • KairusKairus Member

    Interesting, it's almost like western countries WANT to give more money/jobs to China.

  • u4iau4ia Member

    @Kairus sad, but true.

  • pingping Member

    Unfortunately the whole 'launch' process was a farce :(

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  • XynnusXynnus Member

    I am going to wait a few months to get one.

  • MrDOSMrDOS Member

    Being in Canada, I'm probably going to have to wait at least 6-8 months to get one without paying through the nose for shipping.

  • gsxgsx Member

    Already have a order in! :-)

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Mine is arivingin April :P

  • KairusKairus Member

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781

    Doesn't look good.

  • miTgiBmiTgiB Member

    @Kairus said: Doesn't look good.

    Why? Manufacture used the wrong part and has to eat the cost to fix their error, but to you and I just means a further delay.

  • pingping Member

    They'll turn up eventually!!

  • kalamkalam Member

    I'll probably look into getting one in early June, hopefully they'll have everything sorted out by then.

  • u4iau4ia Member

    The whole distribution process is not what I was expecting. I thought I would try to get one in the first sale, and if not maybe another month later they would have another sale. The way they are being sold now is just full of uncertainty about when it will actually ship along with odd pricing and shipping charges. I would still like to own one however, just not sure when it will happen.

  • gsxgsx Member

    @u4ia I think the method of retailing that the foundation eventually stuck with was a bad move. Neither retailer seemed to have been on the ball on launch day.

  • matt_securedspeedmatt_securedspeed Member

    I'd like to pick one up.

    After I saw a video of the XBMC team running XBMC on it and playing some 1080p x264 video I have been curious to try one out.

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