No... There's a difference between that and organised slaughter, sorry, hunting season.

Defenceless animals.. I sincerely doubt this will ever catch on.

Yeah.. that makes it a very good sales channel for a product that has attracted tons of interest from people outside the electronics communities.

Yes, you got screwed and without lube too!

Paypal is free to use with a bank account. Credit cards can charge significant subscription fees. Combined with the universal acceptance of debit cards and you see relatively few credit cards in this country.

A scene in a living room in the Netherlands, just finishing my second cup of coffee...The Raspberrypi.org site displayed a cryptic message late yesterday which trigger a change notification email to me. This morning it has been down.
0700 CET, I hit refresh, again. Suddenly the raspberrypi.org site is alive again.


Huh, who are these Premier Farnell and RS Components companies? I'd expected these in the store on raspberry.com.

Ah well...

Farnell crashes in the first 90 seconds and stays down. RS has a few international sites that occasionally show signs of live. The Raspberry Pi is listed for 27,49 excluding tax. Including tax that $25-$35 computer suddenly sells for $42,50. Ah well.. oh, and 6 euros shipping ex tax. Hm, site crashes again. Hang on, they don't really want to deliver to consumers when an order is less than 50 euros.
Farnell has now been visited by some people and this company is at least as bad. In quite a few countries it seems not to do business with consumers at all.
At almost 1000 I finally manage to stay on a site long enough to actually click something into the basket. By then the feeble stocks have long been depleted.

What I wonder...
- why work with distributors who do NOT want to sell to private individuals?
- why work with consumers who are obviously unwilling or unable to handle a sizeable traffic load?
- Why such a small batch of boards in the first place?


Disappointing all around. I'm sure I'll get one sooner or later but I'm not going to pay a fortune for one.

Yeah... on facebook a good adblock plugin is a must. And even then it's constantly apps asking for permission. Plus, on google I get some response from my 3200+ followers. (no clue where they came from!)

The world uses rapidshare. That includes plenty of countries without walmart and without prepaid cards.

Perhaps in your country, not in most of Europe.

I remember the switch made by our police forces to digital encrypted radios. There was outcry over the costs, there was grumlinbs about bad reception but not one journalist was stupid enough to complain about not being able to listen in. Why on earth would anyone grant radios to the media? Without radio they will either have to work harder or find other news.

You could be American. Then you'd constantly have to apologize for the RIAA and the MPAA. At least brein doesn't sue individual downloaders for 10k per song

Two ISPs got a court order to block. One of these, xs4all, is actually part of the KPN holding. T-mobile is not a major player on the dutch consumer market. KPN under it's own name is quite big. Surprising pretty much everyone UPC, which is really big on the cable internet market, has also stated that it will not block without a court order. All of these will block when they get a court order to do so

Since when is this news people? The last few years the games industry is looking up to the motion picture industry for lessons in how to screw your customer, sorry, how to optimize your revenue model. Next up, a law prohibiting the resale of any used software product.

Sounds better and better. Blame the MPAA for it.

It gets loose, we face a major eco disaster and the company sues anyone that dares to complain. This one's got me worried. We've already got overfishing and trawlers messing everything up. Pretty soon we'll see trawling for seaweed I suppose.