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Simon:
After the due dates of two orders we get an email from RS to say that our raspberry pi boards order is cancelled and they recommend that we use  boards that "they" have released that are same but more powerful. These are made by Okdo which RS owns.

I am rather pissed off, they took our orders, months ago they ended their deal with Raspberry PI and had no stock and only now do they tell us and now that we are truly over a barrel try to shovel their own PI look alike boards down our throats.

It seems that they are trying to oust Raspberry PI and muscle in on the action - yea, true to RS form the datasheet sucks for the rock 4 SE, but I was expecting that from the underhand low life copycats that they are! It's not like they are competent or anything.

I don't know if there is any fault from the Pi foundation in any of this but RS could have behaved better. The email is marked "Business (Not Public)" which to me says: "please don't tell the world about what a bunch of cunts we are". They seem to be recommending their boards but not wanting to admit to have scuppered the supply of Pi boards and to letting us know months after they did.
MK14:
It's disappointing that RS, didn't deliver those items, at approximately the dates, when they claimed they would.

But it is difficult to be too annoyed with RS.  Because it could have been the Raspberry PI suppliers, who caused the items to be cancelled and/or in fairness, there is still a significant chip shortage situation.

The offering of alternatives, is a mixed bag.  Because it could be considered helpful of a supplier, to advise the customers, as to what alternatives are available.  Especially if those alternatives, are currently in stock.

I wonder what long-term impacts, there might be on the future use of Raspberry PIs, given the supply difficulties, situation and how it has been handled by them.  Because some sources seem to say, they delivered to business, with bigger orders, and withheld them from other markets, such as hobbyists.  Which doesn't seem to be the most sensible of decisions, because one-off buyers, are still rather important.
Simon:
The annoying thing is that we ordered in february RS had no stock, in June or July (can't remember which) RS stopped being a licenced manufacturer, I don't know why they fell out and RS clearly are not up for giving details. So RS who were probably one of the major manufacturers were no longer manufacturing, did they tell us? no. We find out now and they are trying to push their own brand of boards that are more expensive and as okdo the official brand is owned by RS fuck knows what support we may be able to expect or perhaps one day on another whim they decide to ditch some of their products and make life hard again.

The only salvation here which is kind of why I was keen to use such a single board computer is that it's a computer that runs an OS that whatever code we developed should still run on, but still it feels like we are missing a lot of the picture here.

Yes Pi do supply large volumes straight into large customers like one that I bumped into at a show. Yes it makes sense that if supply is constricted then some people getting stock and some not is better than no one getting enough to support their products and we are certainly small fry so not expecting favours.
Simon:
I have one too:

Business (Not Public)

Dear Mr. ***screwed customer***

We are writing to you today regarding your current back order with us for Raspberry Pi products. As you may be aware, the supply chain disruption with Raspberry Pi continues and we expect this to run through until the end of 2023.  Unfortunately, we are unable to influence this market-wide issue, and with no confirmation from Pi on inbound stock, we will unfortunately have no choice but to cancel your order from our system. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

We have recently released a portfolio of single board computers called ROCK, that offer superior performance to Raspberry Pi and share a similar form factor. We have five boards now live on the RS website and many more boards, kits and accessories in development that will be released over the coming weeks. Check them out here. (naturally this leads to an empty search in RS style)

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with a ROCK alternative to your current back order, but if you would like to learn more information about ROCK, please check out product information on our website or contact your local RS sales lead.

In addition to this, we will be hosting a ROCK webinar in January which we would love for you to join. It will be here that you will learn more information about OKdo and their vision, why ROCK is the board of choice and what features and benefits the ROCK board could offer you to accelerate your project or business. Click here to sign up to this event.
rstofer:
There is plenty of nonsense going on.  Yesterday, I got an email from NVIDIA that Jetson Nano's were back in stock at Sparkfun and Arrow.  Not exactly!  Sparkfun had none and Arrow had 5.

The new and improved price is $149 versus the $99 I paid a while back but that's a lot better than the $298 at Amazon.

I have no idea why I need a 3rd Nano but I bought one of the 5 at Arrow.  Kind of a 'while I can' kind of deal.

You really need to hunt around on price.

There seem to be plenty of Pi 4s in stock at Amazon with prices all over the map.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=raspberry+pi+4&crid=V7GCNDC0ESME&sprefix=raspberry+pi+4

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