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Cold Blooded, Sam's Club is sold out.
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Cold Blooded, Sam's Club is sold out.
CharminUltra
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FUUUUUUU tried Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Radio Shack... no luck.
I'm done. I really wanted one, but not enough for me to go to any more stores.
I'm done. I really wanted one, but not enough for me to go to any more stores.
lunarworks
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These things are flooding onto Kijiji now.
Urge to kill rising.
Urge to kill rising.
Takamura-San
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Polari said:
How much is the price to ship to NZ?
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ridley182 said:
I feel your pain
http://h30429.www3.hp.com/index.jsp?fr_story=42a5b4fb0009db0a3d1da6ae3462bcdd3c0bc67e
this is the direct link to the video, if this is what Indian workers are really like i can't compete.
Dr. Zoidberg
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Just got back with 2 16GB units I ordered from in-store pickup at Walmart. I ordered them last night at full price but when I went to pick them up they were adjusted down to the sale price automatically. Yay! They had nothing but the display model on the floor but the reduced price was in effect.
I checked out another Wal-Mart. They had a 32GB left under the counter but it scanned at full price and they insisted there was no price change.
BB wasn't selling them at all (about 8 people waiting for them at store opening in my tiny town)
Kmart and Target weren't carrying them
Sam's Club had a large palate with HP Touchpad on it but there were no tablets to be found.
Office Depot said they sold out at opening.
I checked out another Wal-Mart. They had a 32GB left under the counter but it scanned at full price and they insisted there was no price change.
BB wasn't selling them at all (about 8 people waiting for them at store opening in my tiny town)
Kmart and Target weren't carrying them
Sam's Club had a large palate with HP Touchpad on it but there were no tablets to be found.
Office Depot said they sold out at opening.
Let me tell you my story(aiming for 5 16 gb initially)
1 for me, 1 as a present, 3 for my friend's kids
-Woke up this morning to go to the bathroom. Hopped on engadget saw story about dropped prices in the US. Headed to Slick Deals. Was a gigantic clusterf*ck in there.
-Decided to start looking around online for myself and plot out a location that would be advantageous to start at. I live near a city and I am a grad student. A lot of students looking for cheap tablets. Decided to drive like 18 miles away.
-Was able to manage to get one for wal-mart in store pickup before leaving. Had little faith so I decided not to count on it.
-Checked walmart near my place as I was driving. Guy had no idea what a touchpad was.
-Once I got to the mall area far from where I live there was a walmart, sams ,office max, and a best buy
-I get to go in sams early because I am a business member(its like 7:15). They only had 32gb I am not going to pay 50% more for double the memory. Cheapens(not in a good way) the deal IMO. The 16 gb is a much better deal
-Went in walmart. Found 1 16gb left. Cashier said she sold the other 2 16 gb like 30 minutes earlier.
-Its still too early for 9:00 store openings so I decide to drive further away to another Walmart. They tell me they have one but as I am getting checked out I hear the cashier say save that other "16 gb touchpad for me" .... Damn I got scooped. Got one could have gotten 2.
-Drive back to the mall area near the first walmart. Officemax seems like a good bet. Before the store opens I manage to get a hold of the manager and he tells me they are sending them back.... blown. This is the same time I hear that best buy is sending them back. No reason to stay here
-Drive to staples. Massive fail.
-Finally get the confirmation for the initial pickup from walmart. Head over there to find out they have no more on shelves. Luckily no employees scooped, mine in the back.
Word from people around here is everything is mostly dry now. I could have had a lot more 32 gb if I wanted(this morning). These were the only 16 GB I could find though.
Edit: I forgot I did one for pickup at officedepot. They called to tell me it was first come first serve and they sold my tablet to someone else. Manager hung up on me. Later they called back to offer me one from the warehouse.
My friend is seeing what the deal is with microcenter. He ordered 3 through there.
1 for me, 1 as a present, 3 for my friend's kids
-Woke up this morning to go to the bathroom. Hopped on engadget saw story about dropped prices in the US. Headed to Slick Deals. Was a gigantic clusterf*ck in there.
-Decided to start looking around online for myself and plot out a location that would be advantageous to start at. I live near a city and I am a grad student. A lot of students looking for cheap tablets. Decided to drive like 18 miles away.
-Was able to manage to get one for wal-mart in store pickup before leaving. Had little faith so I decided not to count on it.
-Checked walmart near my place as I was driving. Guy had no idea what a touchpad was.
-Once I got to the mall area far from where I live there was a walmart, sams ,office max, and a best buy
-I get to go in sams early because I am a business member(its like 7:15). They only had 32gb I am not going to pay 50% more for double the memory. Cheapens(not in a good way) the deal IMO. The 16 gb is a much better deal
-Went in walmart. Found 1 16gb left. Cashier said she sold the other 2 16 gb like 30 minutes earlier.
-Its still too early for 9:00 store openings so I decide to drive further away to another Walmart. They tell me they have one but as I am getting checked out I hear the cashier say save that other "16 gb touchpad for me" .... Damn I got scooped. Got one could have gotten 2.
-Drive back to the mall area near the first walmart. Officemax seems like a good bet. Before the store opens I manage to get a hold of the manager and he tells me they are sending them back.... blown. This is the same time I hear that best buy is sending them back. No reason to stay here
-Drive to staples. Massive fail.
-Finally get the confirmation for the initial pickup from walmart. Head over there to find out they have no more on shelves. Luckily no employees scooped, mine in the back.
Word from people around here is everything is mostly dry now. I could have had a lot more 32 gb if I wanted(this morning). These were the only 16 GB I could find though.
Edit: I forgot I did one for pickup at officedepot. They called to tell me it was first come first serve and they sold my tablet to someone else. Manager hung up on me. Later they called back to offer me one from the warehouse.
My friend is seeing what the deal is with microcenter. He ordered 3 through there.
Takamura-San
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Polari said:
If you're wiling to wait until i have mine delivered I can provide.
The Faceless Master
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MThandedMThanded said:
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Rocket Scientist
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I had not thought about that. The thing is though that a lot of people who bought it were never going to buy an iPad. They're buying the HP one now because it's ridiculously cheap. Though obviously there will be some overlap and if it's true they are selling hundreds of thousands or millions (hard to believe, no?) then the iPad and any other tablet sales will get a significant hit.Tobor said:
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HP should of done a Microsoft and Apple, give the TouchPad with purchase of a HP Laptop. They never gave the tablet a chance to succeed
balladofwindfishes
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Makes me think there's a strong market for a 99 dollar tablet with modest specs.
That might be a market a company might worth looking into.
That might be a market a company might worth looking into.
The Big Rig
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Office depot only has about 300 16gb models and 600 32gb models for the entire southeast US. And they'll only be in store, no online.
This is what they tell me, so I can't confirm.
This is what they tell me, so I can't confirm.
Rocket Scientist
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Well, it's pretty obvious that sales of other tablets will take a huge hit these few days. So there's that.Tobor said:
There are cheapo Android tablets. This sold well because it had an IPS screen, 1gb RAM, 1.2ghz dual core processor, and a better camer than the iPad 2. The bill of materials on the thing was probably higher than $350 (iSuppli says the BOM on iPad 2 was $327, and that thing has crappier cameras, 512 mb ram, and 1ghz processor). They were already selling it at a lost for $399 (after retailers share, shipping, labor) was taken into account.balladofwindfishes said:
balladofwindfishes
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I called them earlier, nothing left at all.bob page said:
He laughed at me and wished me luck in finding them.
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^^^ Edit: Unbelievable. It's like nobody knows what's going on. I haggled the store manager enough, though I'm tempted to go back and show him the page.
I can't believe some of you are having success in stores. I got a call back from the district manager for Office Max telling me that they are sending the tablets back to HP. They won't sell them.
I can't believe some of you are having success in stores. I got a call back from the district manager for Office Max telling me that they are sending the tablets back to HP. They won't sell them.
Tobor said:
How much do they make off the their app store?
Also, increasing the userbase and OS/brand awareness also hikes the price if they were to ever sell webOS.
I mean, if they are already bailing out, they might as well go out guns blazing taking down whoever they can with them.
Rocket Scientist said:
Not hard to believe, didn't Best Buy alone have over 250'000 units?
All the analysts were saying it's a good thing Google was taking control of Android for tablets and only working with select partners. If Honeycomb were open source I'd bet there would be at few sub $300 Honeycomb tablets by now (aside from the hacked Nook Colors).OuterWorldVoice said:
SSGMUN10000
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Damn this sounds tempting. I have no need for a tablet right now. I was planning to wait on amazon's tablet or the quad core android tablets. The price might just be too good to pass on. Any idea when Amazon will drop the price on these?
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Went to a best buy, no luck 
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