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I am really disappointed about their choice of distributors. Neither Farnell's nor RS Components subsidiaries in Germany and Austria ship to private individuals
by rmk2 15y ago
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.
http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174752572194824192 http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174752572194824192
http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174779094783897600 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
- maayank 15y agoYou can use a forwarding service like http://www.ukpostbox.com http://www.ukpostbox.com
- rmk2 15y agoI know that there are ways. There is apparently also an intermediary i Austria. I'll have a look at that forwarding site. I just wanted to point that out, since it gets drowned a bit on Twitter and I didn't see much posted about it.
- ArnoVanLumig 15y agoPrivate entities can place an order at the Dutch Farnell by email if the total sum is over 50 euros. See for instance [1]. I could not find similar regulations at the German Farnell site. [1] http://nl.farnell.com/images/nl_NL/pdf/Particulier_voorwaarden.doc http://nl.farnell.com/images/nl_NL/pdf/Particulier_voorwaard...
- willyt 15y agoMaybe its different here, but I've been ordering from RS in the uk for years as a private entity. The site is targeted at B2B and makes it seem like you have to be a company but actually you don't really. I think I just put in n/a or something for company name on the registration page. You don't have to have a trade account, they take credit cards. Orders below £50 you pay £5 for delivery.