I am really disappointed about their choice of distributors. Neither Farnell's nor RS Components subsidiaries in Germany and Austria ship to private individuals, you have to be a corporate buyer in order to be able to order from them. And since they "have" local subsidiaries, the "international" sites of both companies don't ship to either country.
In short: in Germany or Austria, you cannot buy the Raspberry Pi unless you go through an intermediary. This seems to be a really bad choice for a platform aimed at education.
And judging by the Twitter comments, at least (potential) customers in Sweden and the Netherlands have the same problem.
I guess what bothers me is how they don't seem to care too much about not being buyable by private entities in a number of European countries, or how they at least didn't bother to check up-front...
Still, I hope I can get one of the next batches somehow
In short: in Germany or Austria, you cannot buy the Raspberry Pi unless you go through an intermediary. This seems to be a really bad choice for a platform aimed at education.
And judging by the Twitter comments, at least (potential) customers in Sweden and the Netherlands have the same problem.
http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174752572194824192
http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174779094783897600
I guess what bothers me is how they don't seem to care too much about not being buyable by private entities in a number of European countries, or how they at least didn't bother to check up-front...
Still, I hope I can get one of the next batches somehow