Well, consider yourself lucky you can actually post on the R-Pi website,=20 every time I tried to reply to a gentleman with a Portuguese spelt name who= =20 lives in Italy it told me my post was spam and to re-enter the password. No one has received a production board yet assuming you exclude the=20 production sample sent to R-Pi for quality control purposes. E-14 stated as did R-Pi (I think, could have seen it elsewhere), the first= =20 10K will be distributed to RS/E-14 on the 9th March, so I would think some= =20 people will start to receive the Pi's about the 14/15th, probably only in=20 the UK, Ireland and possibly parts of Europe closest to the UK, customs=20 will of course be a possible embouteillage. For those of us living in the=20 antipodes, I imagine even longer, my order on the 29th stated 38 days, new= =20 orders a showing 66 days. The orders from China didn't fail and if you read the R-Pi site it states=20 they left China but failed to arrive on time, hence one reason for the=20 change of plans in how the Pi's are distributed. E-14 have stated on their forum, that at one time they were receiving 900=20 hits per second on the Pi order page. There is no rumour both RS and E-14 sites crashed on the 29th and had=20 intermittent access for most of the night (my time) and next day. In fact I= =20 tried to order at 4pm (6am UK time) and the site was already on go slow and= =20 it took me 3 attempts to access the order button. Again on the R-pi website they state they have entered itno a licence=20 agreement with RS and E-14 to allow them to produce the boards from their=20 own production facilities (in China). This will allow more than 10K at a=20 time to be made. The 10K per batch (again this information is on the R-Pi=20 site) is because the developers had to put up their own money for the=20 production and shipping, which I guess would equate to somewhere about GBP= =20 100,000. I imagine few of them have that kind of money lying around so=20 would have had to get loans or remortgage property. =20 As one of the development team works for Broadcom, and Broadcom agreed to=20 help a company with charity status, from a cynical point of view the=20 advertising they get for being seen to support an educational charity and=20 the possible tax concession is possibly worth more to them than paying for= =20 advertising and distribution. On the non cynical side, they might have just= =20 thought it a good idea to back. Why would Broadcom OEM customers complain? =20 Colin -- cdb, colin@btech-online.co.uk on 7/03/2012 =20 Web presence: www.btech-online.co.uk =20 =20 Hosted by: www.justhost.com.au =20 =20 This email is to be considered private if addressed to a named individual= =20 or Personnel Department, and public if addressed to a blog, forum or news= =20 article. =20 =20 =20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .