ShyWriter Posted August 21, 2011 ID:467943 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Can I call 'em or what?? If you miss the BEST BUY sale look at bottom of post for direct HP link to be notified when HP has more available at this price. Note these prices are $400 OFF the original selling price. DISCLAIMER: I have no financial interest, or anything else, in BEST BUY or HP. U.S. Best Buy to sell $100 HP TouchPad Sunday By: Brooke Crothers August 20, 2011 11:03 PM PDT Select Best Buy stores will sell the HP TouchPad tablet for $99 on Sunday. (Credit: Best Buy)Select Best Buy stores in the U.S. will sell the TouchPad for $99 on Sunday.A store manager in suburban Los Angeles said the TouchPad will go on sale when Best Buy opens its doors Sunday at 10 a.m. The sale applies to all Best Buy stores that have stock, but not all stores do, he said. Stores typically have stock in the tens of units, not hundreds, according to the store manager. "If people start lining up, the stock will go fast," he said. Both models will be sold: the 16GB and 32GB, for $100 and $150, respectively, he said. This comes in the wake of fire sales by Hewlett-Packard on its TouchPad site and at Best Buy in Canada, among other U.S. resellers. HP announced Thursday that it is shuttering the WebOS device business. Source: http://news.cnet.com...g=2547-1_3-0-20NOTE: NOTIFY ME BUTTONS are hot-linked via image..Directly to the HP site waiting list (for returned stock)..--ENDShy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSiteTesting Posted August 21, 2011 ID:467963 Share Posted August 21, 2011 OMG is that it $100 for a 16GB HP TouchPad.Thats quite cheap Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyWriter Posted August 21, 2011 Author ID:467987 Share Posted August 21, 2011 OMG is that it $100 for a 16GB HP TouchPad.Thats quite cheap [...]Stores typically have stock in the tens of units, not hundreds, according to the store manager. "If people start lining up, the stock will go fast," he said. Both models will be sold: the 16GB and 32GB, for $100 and $150, respectively, he said. [...]Evidently BEST BUY CANADA as well as the HP site has been selling them at this price already BEFORE announcing the price in the US.. Gggrrrrrrr...Probably because the Canadian dollar is worth more.. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted August 21, 2011 ID:468016 Share Posted August 21, 2011 At that price, I'd consider purchasing one if I had wireless... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyWriter Posted August 21, 2011 Author ID:468022 Share Posted August 21, 2011 At that price, I'd consider purchasing one if I had wireless... BEST BUY and HP are currently "SOLD OUT" online... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted August 21, 2011 ID:468024 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Yikes. I wasn't planning on going anytime soon but if I did go it wouldn't be for a few days, and I bet they'd be sold out if they had any to begin wtih... I'd like to get one just because that's a smoking good deal and I'd totally use it but sounds like I'd be out of luck anyway.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff shadowwar Posted August 21, 2011 Staff ID:468033 Share Posted August 21, 2011 On slickdeals.. the 3 threads have a total of 7 million + views. Datavis on ebay had 6000+ last night and they were gone in under 15 mins. Imho not worth it to buy orphaned hardware. Unless someone figures out how to put some other os on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted August 22, 2011 ID:468086 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Imho not worth it to buy orphaned hardware. Unless someone figures out how to put some other os on it.Excellent point Rich. I wonder if HP would honor any warranties for the item... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyWriter Posted August 22, 2011 Author ID:468099 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Give me a half-million HP Touchpads running WebOS that gets abandoned by HP and I'll raise you GOOGLE making a version of its ANDROID OS to fill in the gap. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyWriter Posted August 22, 2011 Author ID:468343 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Can't find a location that has any left in stock. Amazon.com is also out; Best Buy is out online - haven't tried a store; HP is signing people up for a waiting list.. DRATS!!!Found out this morning HP has a 64gig version but have seen none mentioned for sale at any site. The original 8gig models aren't mention either.Seems there may be several Operating Systems that can be modified to replace WebOS if HP dumps it. This gets more interesting by the minute. Best Buy Canada and US sold almost a quarter of a million units since the 20th.Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted August 23, 2011 ID:468469 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Hmmmm...Well I did check Amazon yeseterday and there was no discount really... and none being sold by Amazon itself, at least not that I could see. Sucks that they are out of them now though.Oh well, no biggie for me... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted August 23, 2011 ID:468508 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I filled out the form on the HP website earlier today to be notified when they have more. Don't expect to get it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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