[Wylug-discuss] Raspberry Pi -- Sites Crashed -- Product SoldOut

[POPPLETON, Timothy]

Hi All,

Keep trying. I actually managed to order some through the Farnell site. 

Regards,

Tim 


-----Original Message-----
From: Will Newton [mailto:will.newton at gmail.com] 
Sent: 29 February 2012 11:45
To: Dave Fisher
Cc: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Raspberry Pi -- Sites Crashed -- Product
SoldOut

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.



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