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About LinkBacksOk, fair enoughOriginally Posted by cameronlite
I shall keep my eyes open should any more come on sale.
Ok, fair enough
Sounds like utter rot to me. Especially since I already bought one online.
Yeah, think it must be. The same website has just anonunced that there are no more TouchPads left & to give up. Which we know not to be true as some etailers are trying to source some.
Well, My 32gb one turned up but the 16gb hasn't. Just waiting confirmation if it is coming or not....
aww mine was cancelled
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I've still got a pre-order with Expansys but I'm not holding much hope for it to come through.
Im sadly the same.. I am keeping a very close eye on there twitter but they are just saying the same crap every time.
If anyone genuine has a reservation code for Bristol or a unit they want to sell on then i would be more than interested. Im not out there to make money like most people buying these.
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I heard that CPW are buying up most stocks of the Pre3 for contracts.
Also,it seems that CPW are using TouchPads to sell overpriced contracts:
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/08/2...drive-revenue/
Just great!! In the rest of the world larger retailers are selling the TouchPads cheaply or sending them back to HP. HP is subsidising them so they can sell quickly.
However,in the UK we get one of our major retailers trying some profiteering. I hope HP steps in and stops them TBH.
yeah, way to misread the market much
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Let them profiteer, it's their stock after all.
Most people will just avoid them, no biggie!
What do you think shops do......at half price sale time they're still making a profit....Let them profiteer, it's their stock after all.
Most people will just avoid them, no biggie!
They can sell it for £1,000 if they want, it's a free country....even at £200 it's still probably a good deal...
^^ indeed whilst it may be annoying, its a clever move to make. It's surprising that any retailer actually sold them for the £89/£115 price points once they realised the demand. If I were them I'd be selling for a minimum of £200 (matching the ebay prices) - unless I was required to sell them at the £89 due to a contract with HP. Even then I would be scrambling to find a way out of it asap. In the current marketplace with margins squeezed so low, you are going to want to make every extra penny that you can find.
It still sucks for those that have not yet managed to find one, we gotta hope that HP do indeed release more stocks to the retailers that are selling them at a discounted rate (Comet/Argos are supposedly getting more next week). The more of these that get out there the better - we need to keep WebOS alive now
As soon as this happened I postulated that any clever stores with stock would take them off sale, back room them for a couple of weeks, then suddenly discovered unsold stock and stick it out there at £150 - £200; I reckon plenty of Touchpads would shift at those prices (I'd certainly pay £150 for a 16GB version - if I had £150, that is).
The only way I can make sense of HP's actions is to assume that they want to sell off WebOS without taking too much of a hit in the wallet. By fire saleing their entire stock of TouchPads, they've just massively inflated the installed userbase of WebOS devices, which should make acquiring said OS a lot more attractive to potential buyers. So it could be a very cunning plan to take a small hit on the hardware side of their mobile business in the hope of a bigger return when selling off the software side. I guess only time will tell on that one...
EDIT: I wonder how long it will take for stock of HP Touchpads in CEX to start creeping up...
This is funny:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI...8#ht_656wt_922
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