I got mine from RS, preordered the week it went on sale. My cousin ordered his a month later and got it last month. 12 week shipping to the midwest. Crazy.
I ordered mine three days after they were released and it arrived a little over nine months later from RS. My cousin ordered three months after I did from the same place and got his in a few weeks. It seems like some orders are slipping through the cracks.
I ordered mine from RS on July 2nd... looking at their shipping tables that they have now posted my order number is not going to ship till mid-November..
This has saddened me greatly and has made me angry. My friend ordered from Allied Electronics and got his within a month.
A day after the initial launch of the Raspi, I ordered two (one from RS and one from Farnell). The Farnell one arrived about 4 weeks ago and the RS one arrived about two weeks ago. I'm in France and ordered via the UK sites in both cases.
P.S. RS packaging wins - it had a cute Raspi logo sticker on it :)
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the one I ordered from RS on May 24th. Never heard from RS again. Dropped an email and got no answer. I do imagine all the cool stuff I could do if I could only grab a box full of these at a reasonable price here in Brazil, but for now it is just imagination.
Having purchased two in the past couple of months, if you select the rush option (18 euros I think), you get it in 3-5 days (to US - other side of ocean probably faster) as opposed to getting it next month sometime due to demand.
TBH, I wish I would have noticed how absurd the RS situation was earlier. I just put an element14 order in to see which ships sooner. Based on my order number, RS says they'll ship it mid November. Somehow, I feel like I'll be able to cancel the RS order with a pi in my hands.
Good God! who did you order from? I placed an order with RS in May and got it about a month later. 20 weeks is simply unreasonable. I'd cancel and look at another fulfillment company.
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