I was one of the original raspberrypi.org trolls for a couple of months. RS Components scammed me with a "preorded" and kept moving delivery date for HALF A YEA

I was one of the original raspberrypi.org trolls for a couple of months. RS Components scammed me with a "preorded" and kept moving delivery date for HALF A YEAR, while at the same time __already delivering__ to newer customers - they prioritised fresh customers over me, because they already had my money :/ Similar thing happened again with Zero, all big fat distributors (this includes Adafruit) engaged in scamming early customers by bundling $5 product with $2 of cables and upselling whole thing as a $20-60 pack(!!). They went as far as removing $5 product listing altogether. http://www.adafruit.com/pizero http://www.adafruit.com/pizero had $5 listed for maybe few hours, then they deleted it. They still list other out of stock products there. To this day Pee foundation acts shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU every time someone complaints about official distributors being scammy. Whole thing would go a lot smoother (from the client perspective) if they didnt shield predatory marketing tactics of those resellers. Today I understand it wasnt rPi fault, but Im sure other people dont, and acting as a PR for element14 will never work if you promise X and element14 silently delivers X+super cheap piece of crap at 4x the price (before taxes) behind your back.