Re:Handling server load for the Raspberry Pi Zero launch
by rasz_pl on Saturday November 28, 2015 @08:37PM
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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 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.
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 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.