I caved and paid $189 shipped. A tad bit higher than I prefer, but with HPs inflated shipping fees, and tax, the gap closes some. Beats ebay prices, I guess.
I'd be ok with that if it weren't for all the desperate people actually buying it for 250+ off of ebay. You know most shops are just going to barely undercut that being there is a demand at that price.
I placed an order this last batch when erwin had it for $20 or $30 over, but if it's $100 over forget it.
I wonder if the retailers are also going to be held to the purchase limit that HP mentioned they will be imposing.
I caved and paid $189 shipped. A tad bit higher than I prefer, but with HPs inflated shipping fees, and tax, the gap closes some. Beats ebay prices, I guess.
.... but with HPs inflated shipping fees...
So by the time they finally get through all the orders, I'll be able to simply buy an off-the-shelf Android tablet for $150, right?That BrynaATHP on twitter person has been making statements that SMB is still trying to fulfill orders placed before the 22nd:- 9/1 - BrynaAtHP on Twitter -
"The US SMB team is working to fulfill orders made prior to Monday, August 22 at 4am CT. Expect an email in the next 48 hrs updating you on delivery dates if you made the cut off time. Sounds like a shipping delay of a few wks."
where from?
?? To be fair, HP's Home & Home Office offered free shipping on these, as with most of their items, even ink cartridges.
I would not describe free shipping as inflated :\
No one should pay a markup on these, whether from ebay or somewhere else. They will be readily available for cheap in a few months anyway when those who rushed to buy them because of price gets bored of WebOS or tired of waiting for an Android port that may never come (or end ups too buggy).
No one should pay a markup on these, whether from ebay or somewhere else. They will be readily available for cheap in a few months anyway when those who rushed to buy them because of price gets bored of WebOS or tired of waiting for an Android port that may never come (or end ups too buggy).
Hewlett-Packard (HP) plans to launch a second sales promotion for its 9.7-inch TouchPads in late October in an attempt to clear out inventories of components in the supply chain, according to industry sources.
HP originally released orders for 900,000-1.1 million 9.7-inch TouchPads to Inventec and has taken deliveries of 800,000-900,000 units, said the sources, noting that the shipped TouchPads were nearly all sold out after the vendor slashed the tablet's price to US$99.
Got mine for $93. Got the logging to a min and preware installed. Nice device, but lacks lots of apps. No Google+ even with the browser. Hulu works via a patch which is nice, but I want Netflix.
Still, for the price it is a nice device. I hope the nerds get dual booting with Android soon though.
If the Amazon tablet comes in at $250 this could all be moot anyway.
OTOH I think we have seen what the consumer sell thru price point is.
The Amazon tablet looks disappointing to me. It's OS is a modified old version of android.
Netflix won't run on any of the Linux distributions which has become a broadly funded platform. If it ever appears on iPad then maybe there'll be hope for the TP...but I want Netflix.
If the Amazon tablet comes in at $250 this could all be moot anyway.
OTOH I think we have seen what the consumer sell thru price point is.
The Nook Color is already out, and is only $250. Refurbed ones are even cheaper.
link to $150 ?