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[butter_stick]

Yeah, why can't we have the firesale over here in the UK too?

Rip Off Britain (TM)

 

[thaOwner]

Heh, sorry, I meant as in like tracking or "ready for pick up"

they've charged my card for all my orders but have yet to receive the shipped notification. It probably won't ship today till tomorrow so Im not in a rush.

 

[Vyer]

BB lets me add the item to my cart but will not allow shipping or ship to store for it. WTF?

Means it's dead, probably.

Same thing happened when I tried to get a second one for my mom. Unfortunately she waited too long to send me CC info.

 

[MThanded]

To the people trying to get one today. Good luck.

 

[Jamesfrom818]

Why are they still spending money on an a campaign? I'm still seeing commercials for this

 

[Naked Snake]

Why are they still spending money on an a campaign? I'm still seeing commercials for this

Prolly paid for in advance?

I'm kinda gutted that I paid $15 for shipping and tax for this... I'm looking at your Amazon!

 

[thaOwner]

BB lets me add the item to my cart but will not allow shipping or ship to store for it. WTF?

That option has maxed out. Its the first few orders me thinks. I ordered two 32gb and 16gb and selected regular shipping. When I realized that option was still available after I placed my order, I cancelled my orders and tried to do it again. No luck so I just-re-ordered.

 

[Noshino]

Only 1 of my orders has been charged, still no confirmations though

Why are they still spending money on an a campaign? I'm still seeing commercials for this

It might already be paid for

 

[neojubei]

Even though I am at best buy now with my friend we were able to buy both the 16 and 32 on best buy's website

Just to add while waiting outside of best buy a women not in best buy uniform stood at the front door someone let her in and 20 mins later she walked out with an I Touchpad and mind you the store doesn't open until 11am in 3 hours

 

[itwasTuesday]

50 dollars at staples if you get lucky and your store has a 16gb. Store less than a mile from me has 32s in house, site says low availability and they open at 10 today.

http://www.staples.com/HP-TouchPad-Tablet-9.7-with-Wi-Fi-16GB/product_344193

 

[vatstep]

Even though I am at best buy now with my friend we were able to buy both the 16 and 32 on best buy's website

How many other people are there?

 

[Chesskid1]

i hope people are buying it because it has awesome hardware and it will be fucking awesome when it has android, but i think the majority is getting it because omg it's a tablet for 99$. that's just my opinion though.

i don't think you'll be super impressed when you first get it; i wasn't. there isn't that many apps for it (basically it's angry birds -- that's about it). there's a few apps, but very few that will interest the neogaf type.

the web browser is pretty nice. flash opens up alot of nice streaming sites so it will make a very nice media player, well for stuff from the internet.

the native media player only plays H264 mp4s, so you'll have to buy a media player from the appstore if you want more codecs. $8.

the speakers are beats by dr dre, whatever that means, haha. the interface is really cool, and it's nice how you can have a bunch of applications open at a time and scroll through them in windows aeros type interface. pretty nice.

like i said earlier, i don't think you will be super impressed with it, because there isn't just that much to do that is exclusive to tablet. get some nice 720p videos with pretty colors (youtube will even suffice). get some nice pdfs or magazine or photos whatever on it. the screen looks phenomenal when you see them and it really pops.

you get more used to how a tablet works as you play with it, all the gestures, and you can start to breeze through how to control everything pretty fast, which makes you like the tablet even more.

i'd also like to say if you are really into skype/facebook/twitter/social networking this is probably your dream setup because everything is there for you. i'm not really into that stuff, but if you like to constantly check that stuff -- you will be really happy. it will even pull your contacts/photos for you.

it's a steal for all the hardware you are simply getting, but with the software and promises of android in the future -- it's highway robbery (lol).

that's my write up after messing it with all day. never had a tablet and never really had a nice phone either. :thumbsup

edit: also you get 50GB cloud storage

protip: when you are in an app, flick from bottom to enter cards mode. i had no idea

 

[Joel Was Right]

I want one. Anyone willing to send it international?

 

[Korey]

50 dollars at staples if you get lucky and your store has a 16gb. Store less than a mile from me has 32s in house, site says low availability and they open at 10 today.

http://www.staples.com/HP-TouchPad-Tablet-9.7-with-Wi-Fi-16GB/product_344193

how do you see store inventory? i don't see anywhere to select a store. it just says sold out

 

[itwasTuesday]

how do you see store inventory? i don't see anywhere to select a store. it just says sold out

You can't on the 16gb, it seems its just a crapshoot. If you select the 32gb it has a link for availability to the right of the product.

Says delivery only now on the 16gb.

 

[Brinbe]

Wow, both are sold out on BB now. Glad I woke up early enough and got in on it while I could.

 

[neojubei]

How many other people are there?

Just my friend and I

 

[Slime]

Daaamn. Realized I could use bestbuy.com after all and now they're all gone.

Welp, looks like it's gone everywhere. Congrats peeps.

 

[CyReN]

Are there lines at Best Buy stores yet for it?

 

[DrFunk]

BB is more than likely out of stock, employees probably got the rest. At least there's Amazon and HP.

 

[speedline]

50 dollars at staples if you get lucky and your store has a 16gb. Store less than a mile from me has 32s in house, site says low availability and they open at 10 today.

http://www.staples.com/HP-TouchPad-Tablet-9.7-with-Wi-Fi-16GB/product_344193

Wonder if it's worth going out for, hate to get my hopes up :/

 

[victreeb3l]

50 dollars at staples if you get lucky and your store has a 16gb. Store less than a mile from me has 32s in house, site says low availability and they open at 10 today.

http://www.staples.com/HP-TouchPad-Tablet-9.7-with-Wi-Fi-16GB/product_344193

says the one by my place has low inventory. i wonder if there will be lines or anything.. store opens in an hour

though will they honor online prices?

 

[Naked Snake]

I'm pretty sure Amazon will put them up sometimes soon (probably today), so those still looking I'd say keep your eyes peeled and don't give up yet.

I'd have much prefered to buy it from Amazon (free prime shipping, no tax), but I can't stay up all day refreshing the page and if it goes up while I'm offline then they'll be gone in a matter me minutes. So I guess I lucked out on bestbuy.com

 

[Rekwest]

I want one. Anyone willing to send it international?

 

[Violater]

Hopefully in a year or so this kind of pricing will be standard.
As it stands I am really excited about porting android over this POS Web os

 

[Why would you do that?]

50 dollars at staples if you get lucky and your store has a 16gb. Store less than a mile from me has 32s in house, site says low availability and they open at 10 today.

http://www.staples.com/HP-TouchPad-Tablet-9.7-with-Wi-Fi-16GB/product_344193

Wait... It'll be $50 in store? Because if so, I might as well go camping right now. Sadly, the 32GB seems to be 150.

 

[Londa]

BB is more than likely out of stock, employees probably got the rest. At least there's Amazon and HP.

I will try to stop by BB but I have a feeling I won't get a chance to get one

also the amount of interest in a 90 dollar tablet should show companies that they need to lower their prices.

 

[CyReN]

So who's going to Staples? tempted to try now.

 

[Slayer-33]

So who's going to Staples? tempted to try now.

I'm fucking going!

Holy shit I know a staples that is CLUELESS about this! They will HONOR this shit for me because I went yesterday! I wonder how much they have in inventory LOL


They open at 11PM TODAY! LOL Cancelling my 16GIG one from BB was the best mistake I made!


LOL! TIME TO BAG ONE for $50

 

[Why would you do that?]

So who's going to Staples? tempted to try now.

I'm thinking about it, but I only have enough to get the 16 if it's in stock, and that's a big if.

 

[DopeyFish]

GOD DAMNIT

 

[Jamesfrom818]

I'm hoping BB doesn't ship until Monday. That gives me all of Sunday to hunt for a better deal.

 

[Barrett2]

I am so relieved I checked this thread as soon as I woke up. Got both order confirmation emails from Best Buy. Feels good, man...

 

[Slayer-33]

So I bagged a 32 gigger for $73 already because of my the GC and now this staples MADNESS $50 deal pops up!


Are you kidding?


I am so fucking heading out now for this shit LOL... They open at 11am! (FUCK)


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[CyReN]

I'm off, I'll post if I get anything from my phone asap if it helps.

 

[Barrett2]

I don't understand how Staples would have any left. Every Staples I contacted yesterday began selling them at 10:30am, were completely sold out within minutes.

 

[Jamesfrom818]

I have 4 hours until the Staples around me start opening up. I think I'll leave at 9:30 and see if the one with stock has a line outside.

 

[Naked Snake]

$50 for this is insane.

 

[Slayer-33]

How do you check staples inventory?!

 

[Delio]

I was pondering going out and trying to find this but i think i'll just stick to getting my Transformer.

 

[DrFunk]

Those of you trying to hit up BB or Staples, don't forget about hhgregg. They were selling Touchpads earlier.

In any case, you should be reading this from your phone in the parking lot

 

[Why would you do that?]

I like price matching, and I think it's very fair for when you buy an item that goes on sale very soon, but I'm really disliking it in this instance. Many stores that didn't even have the price drop (like Newegg) are all sold out now.

I don't understand how Staples would have any left. Every Staples I contacted yesterday began selling them at 10:30am, were completely sold out within minutes.

Also why I'm weary about going to Staples. I don't know how stores shift their stock around, though...

How do you check staples inventory?!

It was mentioned above somewhere... You'll have to check for the 32 GB model.

 

[wario]

How do you check staples inventory?!

there should be a button on the right hand side. it's only there for the 32g right now.

 

[Shadowlink]

Where is the product availability link on the Staples page?

Edit:

there should be a button on the right hand side. it's only there for the 32g right now.

Thanks!

 

[Noshino]

Okay, alread y at best buy. Only 6 people ahead of me

 

[Slayer-33]

there should be a button on the right hand side. it's only there for the 32g right now.

Holy shit I wonder how many my local staples has of the 16 GIG version then... This is going to be nuts LOL..

 

[Why would you do that?]

Holy shit I wonder how many my local staples has of the 16 GIG version then... This is going to be nuts LOL..

I think it's possible none of them do, which is why store locator won't work. I don't know if that's how it works, though.

 

[Slime]

Apparently there are only 3 Future Shops in all of Canada with them in stock, and none of them are within reasonable distance from my house. FML.

 

[1-D_FTW]

Holy shit I wonder how many my local staples has of the 16 GIG version then... This is going to be nuts LOL..

Probably none. Even if they miraculously didn't sell out yesterday, the odds the employees don't buy the remaining before the store reopens sits at about 0 percent.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I doubt Staples has any left in most places. they were selling them yesterday, guys.