Should have ordered from element14 -- 4 day delivery time for me. I also heard that mcm electronics is pretty fast too. You should be blaming the distributors, not RPi. There are many distributors, so choose one that doesn't suck.
I'm not blaming RPi except in the capacity of control over their distributors. I'm disappointed in the response, and disappointed in the demand rapidly outpacing the supply. I understand the engineers do what the engineers do, but other complaints about RPi hold as well: they're not good at communication, they're only really transparent on spotty occurrences, and it's been six months since they launched and they're still having a hard time producing the units being demanded. What I was hoping for from this new revision was a chip that wasn't sold out. The email notifying me of the delay said their CPU was sold out so new boards could not be made. Shame on RS for telling me I had a unit coming to me when that unit apparently hadn't actually been produced yet.
As for the other distributors, some people apparently got great service from RS as well. My frustration is with the entire operation, top to bottom. It's hard to call this a success, and there's no indication it's going to get better. I have to wonder how they're going to supply the educational market if this is how they handle the hacker market they need so badly.
I know this sounds like a hit-job on my part, but you have to realize this is incredibly frustrating, and the news I'm hearing from people who received them is that the users aren't really interested in units to begin with (see below, "I never turned mine on").
I too ordered from RS... and I too was told about the delay, which makes me sad/angry because I had a friend order from Allied Electronics and they got their board within 4 weeks of ordering.
I tried contacting RS to see if I could cancel my order so I could place one at Allied Electronics and they told me they couldn't cancel the order, and payment had already gone through... I am thinking of contacting my credit card company, but I have in the past and will want to continue doing business with RS for other electronic parts purchases... I already had an account set up with them which made it so easy to pull the trigger.
Seeing people that have never turned theirs on makes me sad, mainly because I think it is a fantastic unit to play with, and I have some ideas of things I would like to do with the unit. If all of those people could have waited until later when supply was greater then those of us that are actually interested and actually want to do things with it would have had the chance to purchase one and have it shipped.
