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TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99
- donnaware 15y agoThe obvious question is: how difficult is it to load Android on it?
- ajays 15y agoYes, I'd love to get my hands on it and put Android on it.
- joelackner 15y agohopefully not very hard: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224540 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224540
- KenCochrane 15y agoAll sold out!
- sp332 15y agoEverywhere that actually cut prices is now sold out. http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862#edit41815736 http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862#edit41...
- sciurus 15y agoDang. Is there anyplace tracking these sales where I could sign up for an email alert?
- CrazedGeek 15y agoIt may not update fast enough, but http://wantsthis.com http://wantsthis.com will email you when an item in your list goes on sale on that site. You could just add all the sites you'd buy from that still have it at the normal price. (Although I've only tried it on Amazon, fwiw)
- smtf 15y agoAmazon is only showing the price after the item is in your cart: http://www.amazon.com/HP-TouchPad-9-7-Inch-Tablet-Computer/dp/B0055D66V4/ref=lh_ni_t http://www.amazon.com/HP-TouchPad-9-7-Inch-Tablet-Computer/d... Does that not circumvention services like that?
- azakai 15y agoThe price that is shown after it's in the cart is $493.99, hmm. And says "only 1 left in stock".
- cdr 15y agoAccording to information given to people on deal sites that asked Amazon associates, Amazon will not be doing the price drop - they're returning all stock to HP.
- reemrevnivek 15y agoI've been refreshing the Amazon page throughout the day. They just went up in price by $15; the official Amazon listing is gone and has been replaced by the listings from other merchants.
- g0atbutt 15y agoThat link is sold out but I was able to purchase one from OfficeMax (online) at the discounted price.
- jrydberg 15y agoCan I order these and ship internationally ? I guess OfficeMax does not ship over seas.
- Nick_C 15y agoThere are US-based shippers that redirect your delivery to international. http://www.hopshopgo.com http://www.hopshopgo.com is one that my brother-in-law uses without problems to ship to Australia.
- codeslush 15y agogoes to prove they had a desirable product, wrong price point!
- eli 15y agoErr, yeah, but it's priced below cost
- codeslush 15y agoSure, down vote at will! My point wasn't that the current price was the right price, but that it was overpriced before. Clearly, there is a demand for the product. Maybe an experiment with a happy medium would have been a good experiment before tossing out the entire product.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoYeah, but your assumption is that HP, the company that has made thousands of products since 1939 doesn't know how to price things. Or that they know and chose to price the Touchpad for a extremely high profit margin. We know how much the parts cost[1], and that's but 1 small part of the overall cost to produce the tablet. Chances are that the Touchpad was priced correctly, and that anything they could have cut and remain profitable wouldn't have been enough to make a difference at retail. [1]http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/07/hp-touchpad-parts-analyzed-manufacturing-cost-similar-to-the-ip/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/07/hp-touchpad-parts-analyze...
- ebiester 15y agoOr that if they wanted to make inroads in the market, they were going to have to make the first one as a loss leader to make inroads on the market. And if anyone is going to make inroads against the iPad, that's likely what they will have to do. Nobody is going to get the economy of scale that the iPad does with their first product, and nobody is going to have superior features at a similar price point, so the only way to make inroads is going to be the loss leader and making money off of a similar app store. (the playstation model)
- cpeterso 15y agoIn Monday's news, after selling out all TouchPads for $99, HP has announced that they've changed their minds and will keep producing webOS devices after all. :)
- j_col 15y agoWell, they have now created a potentially viable user base by putting hundreds of thousands of webOS devices in people's hands, who would have otherwise ignored platform. My feeling on this is that their gamble might lead to something interesting happening, worth keeping an eye on.
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- bhamnav 15y agoargh :( looked nice. an absolute bargain.
- dotcoma 15y agosee - you CAN compete with the iPad: it's all a matter of price ;-)
- Apple-Guy 15y agoHP's margin is lower than 30% on $500 MSRP. That means it costs HP at least $350 to produce each TouchPad (before the cost of buying Palm). Selling at $99 means at least a $200 lost on each item. Not sustainable.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoHow is HP's shopping site so incredibly bad? How many different servers can we force the users' browsers to hit to load the cart. Loving the error msg: >cpqUtil error '800a0006' Overflow /dstore/dcart/include/u_util.asp, line 221
- jscheel 15y agoWow, even the walmart where I live, and I live in podunk, sold out at 9am
- lee_a 15y agoWhile I'm sure many of them actually are sold out (and yours might be by now), if anyone else lives near a Wal-Mart make sure to not just call but go by the store and look around. At mine, they had moved them from their original place to another display on the other side of department, and as I walked up behind a couple of employees I overheard one telling the other that they'd been telling everyone who called or asked that they were sold out (in an attempt to ensure there were a few left to buy at the end of the day I assume). They had a stack left.
- cletus 15y agoWhat I find interesting are the anecdotes (of which I've now seen several) of first-time tablet owners buying TouchPads because they're so cheap. One has to wonder if HP hasn't inadvertently created a whole new group of future iPad owners.
- hackoder 15y agoCan you share some of these? Should be interesting reading. I'm mostly seeing nerds going crazy at the cheap hackable tablet.
- georgemcbay 15y agoCheck out the various threads on slickdeals.net. There are literally over a thousand pages (split among multiple threads) of people scrambling to buy these at the discounted prices. Very few of the people there are geeks, mostly just normal folks trying to jump in on what is seen as a huge value (~75% price drop over a single day). Seeing those forums will also show you why you will never be able to buy one of these online at the new price unless you are extremely lucky. The item is selling out in seconds every time the price drop is noticed at a new retailer, and these people are tracking all of them. I tried to jump in on this last night and put an order in for the 16gb at Microcenter's online site less than a minute after the new pricing went live there. The order made it through their website and I even got a confirmation email and a precharge ding on my credit card, went to bed thinking I'd be playing with WebOS on a tablet sometime next week but woke up to an email saying my order was cancelled due to insufficent stock.
- dvdhsu 15y agoI purchased one at 12:40 PM PST today from Amazon, at full retail price. Four hours later, they promised me to issue a refund so the price was the $99 HP price. It wasn't incredibly difficult to get one, if you really wanted to.
- schraeds 15y agoI just bought 2 this morning from HP Small Business store. Pessimism sucks.
- eftpotrm 15y agoMeanwhile, HP UK have them at £349/429 for 16/32GB. Pity, for anywhere near $99 it'd make sense for me.
- ugh 15y agoSo, is that only happening online or also in the real world? Also, is it worldwide? I just happened to be at a (German) electronics retailer and they still sell the pads for their old prices and the people there know nothing about a reduction in price. (They are also still selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, preliminary injunction be damned :) – Edit: Also, I played around with it a bit. It certainly wasn’t as bad as some made it sound. The tablet was not connected to the internet (none where, which makes testing all that harder) but no matter what I tried, everything was very snappy – to a degree that the Honeycomb tablets weren’t really. (I have unreasonably high standards.) The only thing that tended to take some time was launching apps.
- cdr 15y agoThis morning in the US, there were people lining up outside of retailers before they opened. It was a mini-Black Friday. AFAIK, the price drop happened for Canada on the 19th and in the US on the 20th. Some retailers are accepting the price drop and some are just shipping the units back to HP. Unknown when/if it'll happen in other countries.
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- dotcoma 15y agoso, the price is back to $499? :) http://i.imgur.com/SnLjT.png http://i.imgur.com/SnLjT.png
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- sjs382 15y agoI got a 32GB one (and a ream of paper) for $133 last night. I'm pretty much going to be using it as an instapaper client, so it will be great. :)
- ajays 15y agoWow. The OfficeMax site, http://www.officemax.com/ http://www.officemax.com/ actually will just return an empty page when you search for "HP Touchpad" or "Touchpad". Note that searching for something that doesn't exist in their inventory returns a _different_ page. It's as if they're actively blocking searches for "HP Touchpad" and "Touchpad".
- rick888 15y agoI went to my local Office max today to see if they had any left. They were sold out. The guy also told me they have only ever had 1 in stock.
- 83457 15y agoBestBuy is no longer selling them and if you click on a link for HP Touchpad from the back to school page it shows an error message.
- tertius 15y agoThey started selling them again about 4 hours ago. http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-Geek-Squad-Policies/HP-TouchPad-FAQs/m-p/315434/thread-id/3887 http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-Geek-Squad-Policies/HP...
- gcb 15y agobut they will not let you pickup on stores (not even with the usual 3-5 ship-to-store). you have to pay a minimum of $10 shipping on them *edit: link for free shipping: http://slickdeals.net/?&u2=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Misc/Entertainment-Free-Shipping/pcmcat221900050000.c?id=pcmcat221900050000&AID=10597222&PID=1312731&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2FMisc%2FEntertainment-Free-Shipping%2Fpcmcat221900050000.c%3Fid%3Dpcmcat221900050000&ref=39&CJPID=1312731&loc=01 http://slickdeals.net/?&u2=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/M... (keeping the slickdeal redirect they had since they are the source anyway) it's still $114.74 in california after tax and 'recycling fee' --first time i've seen the last one.
- brentvatne 15y agoCanadians over at RedFlagDeals.ca have been in touch with HP customer service and been assured that although the price on hp.ca isn't adjusted yet, refunds will be given for the difference in price sometime over the next couple of days. If this does not happen automatically, you can supposedly call on Monday and they will do it manually. http://forums.redflagdeals.com/merged-hp-touchpad-16gb-99-99-32gb-149-99-everywhere-1072318/150/#post13319928 http://forums.redflagdeals.com/merged-hp-touchpad-16gb-99-99...
- bnycum 15y agoBought a 32GB one at Sam's Club this morning. I watched the last one any Walmart had in town sell right in front of me. Went on a wind goose chase but got one. Its an awesome device. Been rock solid, feels great. My only gripe is lack of apps. There is one vnc app out there but has bad reviews from touchpad owners.
- watty 15y agoFound out about this a little late and it's sold out EVERYWHERE. Would have loved a tablet for $99!
- thought_alarm 15y agoAt $99 it would make for a pretty good digital picture frame. You would just need to remember to reboot it every couple of days.
- vbone 15y agoWhy would you need to reboot?
- donnaware 15y agoperhaps the furvor over this reveals something about the tablet price point? hmmmm. could this spark a tablet price war?
- skywalker7861 15y agosee HP dint price it right..who said it was HW or SW?
- cpenner461 15y agoIt took a while to get through, but I was able finally able to order one through the HP Small & Medium Business Store (http://www.hp.com/sbso/ http://www.hp.com/sbso/). Had to pay for shipping though.
- freshrap6 15y agoJust tried on the site. It lets you add it to the cart, then it seems like it crashes. Did you go through this as well?
- colson04 15y agoIt's been doing that for hours.
- ttrashh 15y agoJust keep trying. Took me about 30 minutes of refreshing and error messages at every step to get one.
- freshrap6 15y agoYea, I finally got through it. Took me about 30 minutes though.
- QuantumGood 15y agoThanks a ton for the encouragement to keep trying. Got through!
- desigooner 15y agoIf anybody is still looking to order, try ordering from the HP Small Business site using Opera as your browser. You might have to hit refresh at every step (since the website is unstable right now and errors out) but my order went through. In fact, I did it twice so I have 2 orders in the system. The confirmation page said that a customer service agent will be contacting me to confirm the order.
- mikezupan 15y agoI was just able to pick up a 32gig model from the small business site.. thanks!
- gsivil 15y ago99$ dollars seems a fair(good) price for a second-rate product. I would not be paying more than 200 $ for any tablet in the market.
- colson04 15y agoI just went into the Wal Mart here in my town and they have two in 32GB in the case, but would not match the price. The squeaky little overnight manager argued with me about it. How are you guys getting the online deal price matched in the store?
- bond 15y agoMaybe turning the TouchPad into an Android tablet would be a good idea... http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327&p=67699 http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327&p=67699
- tertius 15y agoBest Buy is selling it again. http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-Geek-Squad-Policies/HP-TouchPad-FAQs/m-p/315434/thread-id/3887 http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-Geek-Squad-Policies/HP...
- lukifer 15y agoI managed to pick up one of these at Walmart. There are some areas where it's rough around the edges, but overall I love the UI every bit as much as I thought I would. The hardware is actually pretty decent, heavier than the iPad, but still comfortable. I can already tell, though, that the screen will not be near as scratch-proof as the iPad's. The loss of webOS is a damn shame. Best case scenario, it becomes the Amiga of the tablet world, with die-hard fans keeping it clinging to life with hacks and homebrews.
- petervandijck 15y agohttp://twitter.com/#!/petervandijck/status/104272157865021440 http://twitter.com/#!/petervandijck/status/10427215786502144...
- MrFacepalm 15y agoHoly...! I was ordering 2 32GB ones from HP and because of the errors, it processed it as 4 tablets (because of refresh I guess) and there's NO REFUND for them :( Fortunately, it says Customer rep will call me to confirm, can I change it then? If they won't, I'm willing to sell it at $149 (+ $10 tax fee) price, if anyone missed it and is interested.