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Raspberry Pi Goes On Sale In US, Sells Out
hypnosec writes "Easter has brought some good news for Raspberry Pi fans in the US as the $25 Model A of the credit card sized computer is now available in the United States. Texas based Allied Electronics is the first local retailer selling the Raspberry Pi in the U.S. and has been selling the Pi through its online store. (There were companies selling the Raspberry Pi over eBay to U.S. users for a higher price tag earlier.) The Model A has sold out completely and as of this writing there is zero availability."
I've been buying the model B from Adafruit for a while now. Check your facts, seriously.
So it's "now available" yet there is none available?
I see.
I bought a Model B several months ago from Newark, and have two more in transit to me from them. But yes, stock is low; they were backordered a couple of weeks.
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Customer: "They're selling this product for $50 below list price across the street."
Retailer: "OK, so buy it across the street".
Customer: "They said they don't have it in stock".
Retailer: "If I didn't have it in stock, I could sell it for $100 off list."
How long did it take you from order to arrival?
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
April Fools?
Was it 300,000?
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
It's not like this information would have been useful, you know, BEFORE it sold out
Allied isn't the only retailer that has them.
I can see 3 different US resellers with them in stock, shipping today, as others mentioned in posts. Model As and Bs.
The Raspberry Pi itself has been on sale in the US over a year.
The only people buying As are the ones who don't know how to find Bs and think there is no one other than the two adwords results at the top of Google search list that sell them.
Congratulations, you posted a story about a rather well known and popular computing device ... and get every single detail of it wrong in every possible way.
You have whole demonstrated you have no fucking clue what you are doing.
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Have had mine since July 2012, thanks for this device.
The Model B is available at MCM Electronics and they have the cases, pi/case combos, Gerboard, Pi-Face, Humble-Pi, Slice of Pi, Arduino goodies, screens, user interface stuff etc.... . 99.9% of their business is mail order but their massive warehouse is a short drive for me. Anytime I need electronics components I just call them up and go pick up my stuff at the little window behind the warehouse.
has had the Raspberry Pi available for several months now.
It seems that the article only refers to sales from Allied, not any of the other dozen places you could get one in the US from.
It's like hearing pretzels are sold out and unavailable in the US, only to read closer and see that just one store sold out of their initial inventory.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
as long as it's black.
I bought two Pi B's from Allied just before Christmas. Am enjoying both of them right now. What, exactly, is the point of this story?
I was toying with the idea of using some of the techniques others have done on the Model B to reduce power but make it switchable. Like on freneticrapport except leaving the components on the PCB. It would be a challenge.
At least some articles about the raspberry pi have some value added by showing you stuff you can do with it.
This is just a shameless plug to sell the product, and from what I have seen there are a lot of products with similar or better capabilities in smaller form factor with a case and power.
allied has the ABSOLUTE worst customer service that lies to customers about this exact product /.
i would not be surprised if you were a shill from that very company
your company has had its name dragged thru the mud enuf here on
i wont even provide reference links-pretty much everybody knows about allied( a LIED)
avoid this company --there are so many other companies that dont lie to customers
seriosly take your shill bullshit and go haunt the verge
Dunno what planet you live on, but there's now over a million of the little buggers out in the wild - not bad for a credit-card sized basic computer system that runs Linux (other OS's available too, btw). If the sales of the model B had been in line with the Foundations initial expectation, ie around 10,000 or so, then "shameless plugs might be the order of the day.
For someting thats not a general consumer item, then SALES of a million devices in just over a year (not just inventory stock) is bloody good going.
No pliugging required.
BTW I'm interested to read that you know of "a lot of products with similar or better capabilities in smaller form factor with a case and power". Perhaps you'd like to share your knowledge of where these desirable little devices might be obtained and from somewhere reputable, not an outfit somewhere in Guangdong. Prices, including tax and shipping in single quantities miight be useful as a comparison too. Oh, and production figures? Because the more there are, the more likely it is that an active support community might form about them, rather like that the Raspberry Pi enjoys.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm????
i wont even provide reference links-pretty much everybody knows about allied( a LIED)
Actually, please do provide links, as myself, and potentially others, do not actually know. I don't think I would make a good shill for Allied... as my recommendation is usually to go to octopart, and do a search for availability and price on most parts. And for the type of parts I usually buy, that typically comes out to Mouser 60% of the time, Digikey 20% of the time, and then a mix of other places for the remainder (but isn't that way for everyone, the guy across the hall finds more of what he needs on Digikey than Mouser). But anyway, I still end up purchasing parts from Allied at least once a month, and so far my description of their service is non-descript: I've gotten everything as ordered on time, no problems beyond a couple backorders that were easily changed on the phone to a different part. They seemed on par to any other company of that nature.
It's been years in the making but the hopes of just ordering one on Newegg and getting it a couple days later. I'm gonna chalk it up to a very slow rolling April Fools joke.
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
What, Newark element14 is not easy enough to order from? Does it really matter? My two Raspberry Pi units arrived almost instantly from Newark element14 the moment they became available.
Why is this news? Just cut it out, already.
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