Sounds like that is what they were doing.? My order was the 27W power supply and the Pi5.? Both showed pre-ordered.? In late October, the Pi5 changed to "Backordered" while the 27W supply was no longer pending.? I found out in November that several people had ordered in late October and received their Pi5's in 2-3 weeks... I sent a couple emails asking why my Pi5 went from pre-order to backordered with zero responses.? I had ordered other items from them over the years and never had issues... I was so fed up with them that after I cancelled my order, I wrote a nice long email to the Pi Foundation.? Since they were certified resellers, they had to sign agreements agreeing to the pi foundations rules.
Hoping the pi foundation removed them from their preferred sellers
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On Jan 29, 2024, at 09:10, John <
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Could it be they just wanted to use our money interest free?? I have received no unsolicited answer from them, only vague answers to Emails I've sent to them.? At one point they said I was around 1000 on their list.? Next was they received 1000 8gb Pi-5s.? Next was it took time to assemble the kit.? That was about two weeks ago.
John,? WoGN
On 2024-01-28 17:30, N5XMT wrote:
What's funny is sparkfun was advertising a lot that they were taking pre-orders for the pi5's... Once they actually shipped from the pi foundation in October, I no longer see any of their advertisements on a lot of the pi project websites like I used to
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On Jan 28, 2024, at 13:12, John <
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Hi David,
I ordered my Pi-5 kit very nearly 5 months ago.? Somebody should start a list of suppliers that are not reliable.? Perhaps the ARRL can take on this task.? Come to think of it, I've not seen a SparkFun ad in QST.??
John,? WoGN
On 2024-01-28 12:59, David Ranch wrote:
I've been waiting on Sparkfun for three months now on an Rpi5-8GB kit and sent their support email list an email on Friday for a status as I'm getting very frustrated too.? While I got an automated email response, no real HUMAN reply yet.? I'll give them a few more days for a response or I'll cancel too.
--David
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On 01/27/2024 07:32 PM, DavidC KD4E wrote:
I canceled my SparkFun order.
Got tired of waiting - while they show up for sale everywhere else.
The next time a buddy visits a MicroCenter in the Atlanta area,
he'll pick up a RPi 5 for me there.
