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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."
So it's "now available" yet there is none available?
I see.
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.
I've been buying the model B...
This article is about the Model A?
This article is about the Model A
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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The headline "Raspberry Pi Goes On Sale In US, Sells Out" isn't specific to the model A.
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.
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.
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????
Now if only there was some text under the headline, to explain the headline and summarize the story, but I suppose that would be asking too much.
There were 70 units available when I read an article about it this morning. 46 left when I started to order my 2. They probably started with more, but still much closer to 10 than 300k.
You expected an accurate headline, here? At least the headline isn't flat-out contradicted by the summary. This is pretty good for Slashdot standards... :p
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
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.
Kriston
That's the Model B, this is about the Model A, the cheaper version that was initially touted and got a lot of headlines for just that.