The iPod shuffle has taken some time to arrive in Europe but it looks like the first supplies are arriving to major Apple partners and ressellers while. These first days of availability also show good signs for the product success in Europe.

Some resellers in France and other European countries had already received a dozen of iPod shuffle 512Mb last week but were quickly sold in the next two days. On Thursday evening, the french retail retail chain, Fnac, had received about 30 iPod shuffle 512Mb per store and current stock average is about 10 iPods. It means that each store sells a dozen iPod shuffle, daily, although the product is not highlighted in the stores. For comparison, a store like Fnac usually sells about 4 to 6 iPod mini, daily.

The 1Gb iPod shuffle still remains unavailable in retail, sales staff at Fnac suggest to come in two weeks. Meanwhile, on European Apple Store sites, we can notice that shipment delays are one to two weeks for the 512Mb model and two to three weeks for the 1Gb one.

UPDATE: Fnac has sold all of its iPod shuffle stock during Saturday and now expects to get new shipents in the end of this week.

UPDATE 2: First iPod shuffles ordered from Apple's European online stores had already arrived in January. A reader claims he had quickly received his iPod shuffle, that he had ordered on the French online Apple Store, just after MacWorld's announcements. The order took only 10 days to ship. Apple has shipped the product to ressellers and partners only recently though.