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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.

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Apparently....

http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-chipset/chipse...

Isn't it this one? http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspb...

So $35 turned into $50

That's Australian dollars.

The $AUD is worth more than the $US, but tech goods always cost more in Australia than they should.

Are those US or AU $, and did you include shipping and taxes etc in that?

Weirdly that link lists prices for more than one board; RaspberryPI made it very clear that the initial batch was "one per customer".

The $50 record is clearly erroneous, there is another for $38 that has the specifications/photos and has a 1 per order limit.

Demand skyrocketed.

I couldn't even find it on the Australian site. I got it into a shopping cart on the UK one, but it died while trying to create my account.

I managed to get a confirmation for an order of two through the Australian Element14 site - it took a dozen or so reloads to get the product into the cart, then almost an hour to get through the payment process (I was already registered from previous purchases).

According to the blog at raspberrypi.org (currently offline) they are limiting orders to 1 per customer. So it will be interesting to see if this order goes through.

They underestimate what it takes to audit 10,000 orders for fraud (breaking their business rules, not laws).

Yep - will be. I know a bunch of other local (Sydney Australia) people who placed orders for more than one via Farnell (Element14 here in .au), both online and by phone. I suspect if they've billed my credit card they'll honor the order/confirmation whatever the RPi org tells them.

I keep getting 'No price was found for product 2081347. Item was not added to basket.' on the au site now.

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