What's the prices in USD (I'm seeing $50.45 from Farnell)? Has anyone from the US officially ordered one? Shipping?
Raspberri PI Release Announcement
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Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#62The Farnell product page came up briefly for me: http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspber...
(but the servers are still melting, so the buy links weren't working)
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tweets from the foundation make it look more like Farnell actually took about 10 minutes to sell what they had. Nobody's quite sure whats up with RS yet.
Then I blame their fucked up shop system with yet another site for every other region? All I can say is that one minute after launch, the product page on Farnell was showing "out of stock". After that, the site never loaded again. Apparently the only way you could actually get one is through some back of the woods partner site of them in Australia. Hooray.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#64And after they spent the past couple of weeks cockily batting away concerns about how they'd handle the traffic load, too. "You're all talking like we don't know what we're doing" is the line I recall being used several times.
They did seem to know what they were doing. They put up a temporary static site to handle the traffic. However, their suppliers, who are apparently fairly large companies, haven't been able to handle it. They said they warned them that the traffic would be enormous.
Obviously people were only expressing concern because they were interested in purchasing reliably, not because they were worried about Rpi's server uptime numbers. It's a little trollish for them to blame their distributors and say "Our site is fine".
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did seem to know what they were doing. They put up a temporary static site to handle the traffic. However, their suppliers, who are apparently fairly large companies, haven't been able to handle it. They said they warned them that the traffic would be enormous.
Obviously people were only expressing concern because they were interested in purchasing reliably, not because they were worried about Rpi's server uptime numbers. It's a little trollish for them to blame their distributors and say "Our site is fine".
So what are you paying the distributors for then, if not for their infrastructure?
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#66Both sites slashdotted in under a minute. Nice. No one can say they weren't warned.
It's reasonable to assume that even though both companies were warned that traffic to their sites would skyrocket they probably wouldn't have invested in any new infrastructure to just support one new product - probably more of a 'take note, grin and bear it' stance.
They did not need new hardware, just a super-streamlined single-product order page for the Pi.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#67Just got a broken CSS site, now says;
http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspber...
Availability: Awaiting Delivery
... so back to work...
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#68It looks like the RS site is coming back online - but their Raspberry Pi product page still only says "register to express an interest"...
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#69And after they spent the past couple of weeks cockily batting away concerns about how they'd handle the traffic load, too. "You're all talking like we don't know what we're doing" is the line I recall being used several times.
"We're so frustrated about the DDOS effect - and apparently some of you are VERY ANGRY. We're really sorry; it's out of our hands."
-http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174747109046755328
Supplier 1: RS Components redirected to a product interest page - no purchase option
Supplier 2: Premier Farnell redirected to a international region picking page with no US link - no purchase option
Traffic wasn't the real problem. People are familiar with lines and queues- I wait in a slow long line every time I go to the grocery store.
Seems like they simply did not test their launch with either distributer internationally. Combine that with months of hype and last minute server/traffic arrogance for an angry social mob.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's reasonable to assume that even though both companies were warned that traffic to their sites would skyrocket they probably wouldn't have invested in any new infrastructure to just support one new product - probably more of a 'take note, grin and bear it' stance.
No, but there are a lot of other things they could've done. EC2 anyone?
Farnell: THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORDER
Goods Subtotal: £26.55 Basic Shipping: £0.00 VAT: £5.31 Total: £31.86
--->>> Further stock available in 30 days
I'll believe it when I have the board in my hands though!
Order confirmation email just come in:
Description
SBC, RASPBERRY PI, MODEL B
Qty Ordered 1
Qty to Follow 1
Estimated Delivery W/C 12/03/2012
That's 12th March for our foreign friends -at least I hope its not 3rd Dec!!