No items are available in the RHCP store

[dkcbk]

Hi.

I have passed 9 Red Hat certifications. In every exam result email, you can read "Show the world you are skilled, proven, and ready. Please visit the Red Hat Certified Professional Store at http://redhat.brandfuel.com to purchase logo merchandise available only to Red Hat Certified Professionals."

I tried to purchase a product from the mentioned store, but I was disappointed. No matter which product I selected, the message "We're sorry, this item is not available. Go back to the item page" appeared. I sent an email to customerservice@brandfuel.com and received a response: "We sincerely apologize about stock levels; however, at this time, Red Hat doesn't have any plans to restock or add any new items."

My question to Red Hat: why do you advertise a store in the exam results email where it's not possible to buy a single product?

[TM]

Hello,

Me, I can't even access their home page (https://redhat.brandfuel.com/) from my Mozilla Firefox 112.0.1 (64-bit) on my Fedora 36 laptop.

I receive back an error page:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to redhat.brandfuel.com. The peer used an unsupported combination of signature and hash algorithm.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

As it is supposed to be a purchase site on which you might expose your bank account details, I do not even want to try to ease my Firefox settings to allow those unsupported sugnature algorithm.

I think that they will have to fix that along side with their stock issue.

Regards,

Tshimanga

[AttilaPapai]

I'm waiting for an official Red Hat answer for this since last November....

[dkcbk]

More than a year ago, I sent a question to Redhat. They directed me to Brandfuel where I got the answer that Redhat products were no longer in stock and that there were no new product stocks planned by Redhat.
It's a bit funny that Redhat advertises its products in every email with exam results, which are not possible to buy.

[RHCANZ]

This shoud be addressed. I got my RHCA in November, and I'm still waiting for my swag package. it will be 6 months in 2 weeks now...

[tat]

Any news on the Red Hat Certified Professional store, how can I reorder RHCE polos and so on?

[TudorRaduta]

@tat thanks for reaching out! I’m currently checking on the RHCP store and will let you know once I have an update. In the meantime, you might want to browse the Cool Stuff Store. There is great Red Hat swag available.

[TudorRaduta]

Unfortunately, the RHCP store is no longer available, we’ve discontinued that option, and the Brandfuel storefront was shut down.

You can still check out the Cool Stuff Store, though please note it doesn’t carry certification-specific swag. It’s open to the public, not just Red Hatters.