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Indeed. Maplin are like an Argos these days, except the service is worse than Argos and you have to wait longer to be served, and they have less in stock, and the staff run away when you ask them anything.

Looking at their £69 offer - it does look pretty good actually. If they deliver, I'll be very surprised and would consider forgiving them for a while :)

Tandy - £1 for 5 resistors!! How could they possibly have failed?

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On Saturday Maplin's online stock check said there were two starter kits still in stock at Wimbledon - a little over a mile away from me. There had been five in stock a few days before. I walked there and was in time to get the last one. Now there seem to be none left in the London area, and the online site says new stock is due in 16 days. Let's hope the next batch will have 512MB Pis - the Pi in my kit is in an element14 box, but is not the latest board version (not made in UK, no mounting holes).

lucky and unlucky you. Still thanks for giving the heads up that there stock initialy was not the 512mb versions, something I think I'll definetly be checking for when I get mine.

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