[Wylug-discuss] Raspberry Pi -- Sites Crashed -- Product Sold Out

[Will Newton]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Dave Fisher
<wylug-discuss at davefisher.co.uk> wrote:
> Gnrr! .. Logged on a 0555 ... project site already unconnectable ...
> finally got through to temporary static page at 0615 ... followed
> links to retailers (Farnell and RS) ... both sites down ... Google
> news for "Raspberry Pi" ... discover all 3 sites crashed, and all
> product sold ... search ebay to discover products for sale at GBP50 to
> GBP 1000 ... many items already sold at double the ticket price.
>
> Looks like the same old story for British engineering: great product,
> shit management and logistics. Discuss.

The foundation is a non-profit so can't afford to sink large amounts
of capital into stock, so the first production run was always likely
to sell out. They also seem to have gotten a rather large amount of
publicity from the BBC which can't have been completely expected -
after all at the moment it's just a cheap dev board with a vapourware
software stack.