99$ 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.
TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to believe you - it seems logical. But everything in front of me suggests they do not know how to price things! If you disagree with me, that's okay. But I have to believe they could have sold every single unit today for $200 to $250 per unit. Instead, this "company that has made thousands of products since 1939" dumped them all for $99 to $149. I don't know how many units were purchased today, but I can assum…
That's a different discussion. You're talking about how they should have dumped their inventory, the grandparent was talking about how they should have priced the product from the start. My take is that they set the price so low as to clear inventory quickly. I'm sure the deals they had with retailers made a prolonged sell-off at incrementally decreasing prices undesirable.
actually, I think the price $99 is quite fair. Compared to having all the tablets returned and don't know what to do with them, HP now created a super hot products with 2-digit price that everyone wants to grab one, or two, or twelve. Things wouldn't happen this way if the price was $200. True that HP didn't earn that much money back but as a big corporation, HP could afford that and earned something beyond money. Let's keep an eye on this matter to see what happens in the end.
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#63If 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.
I was just able to pick up a 32gig model from the small business site.. thanks!
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#64What 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.
as a first gen ipad owner, I think it will have the opposite effect. I had the ipad sitting on my dining table for over a year now, collecting dust as I'd rather use my kindle for reading, my laptop for computer stuff or phone when on the go. I know a lot of people will disagree, but I know for a lot of people once the whole new toy effect wears off.. it becomes an expensive toy. For the people like me it will be hard to justify paying $500 for a tablet again.
I think its actually quite brilliant strategy as HP is still in the business of selling computers, flood the market with good, cheap tablets and reduce the magical experience to a commodity and hope it works. Asus had the same sort of lead with netbooks, and once the market got flooded they became commodity.
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#65I 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?
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#66It 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/ ). Had to pay for shipping though.
Just 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?
Re: TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99
#67It 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/ ). Had to pay for shipping though.
Just 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?
It's been doing that for hours.
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#68Maybe turning the TouchPad into an Android tablet would be a good idea...
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#69Wow. The OfficeMax site, 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".
BestBuy 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.
They started selling them again about 4 hours ago.
http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-Geek-Squad-Policies/HP...
Re: TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99
#70Best Buy is selling it again.
http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-Geek-Squad-Policies/HP...