HP touchpad tablet $99

[ponyo]

Yey, finally got one. Make sure everyone is checking your local best buy stock, ALL of the stores in my area got shipments today. The last one I went to had stacks of them, although the line was out the door.

People in the store were asking what it was all about, having no idea, then getting in the line to buy one because of the deal.

haha. Congrats! People who deserve this deal are the ones that go out hunting at B&M locations. Now you can sit back, relax, and marvel at the continued mayhem.

 

[PottedMeat]

http://slickdeals.net/?&u2=http://w...contract_desc=2+YEARS+NEW&pageMode=searchmode

lol. the only bestbuy in ~200 miles that has a touchpad is in flower mound

 

[sygyzy]

Went to Best Buy and the guy was being really weird about it. He said he couldn't talk about it and there's rumors there are more coming. He wouldn't tell me what days the store normally gets shipments. Does anyone know? I find it confusing because most big name stores have very set delivery schedules when their trucks come.

 

[Wyndru]

haha. Congrats! People who deserve this deal are the ones that go out hunting at B&M locations. Now you can sit back, relax, and marvel at the continued mayhem.

It looks like my insight order is being processed, so hopefully I can get one for my mom too. best buy had a limit of 1 per and even though I saw people abusing it by having their family members hold spots in line for them to keep buying more, I decided that I should just wait it out and see if they ship it.

 

[Wyndru]

Went to Best Buy and the guy was being really weird about it. He said he couldn't talk about it and there's rumors there are more coming. He wouldn't tell me what days the store normally gets shipments. Does anyone know? I find it confusing because most big name stores have very set delivery schedules when their trucks come.

not sure, our area was today. You can use the links I posted a couple of pages back, I just kept refreshing until I saw stock, then called to verify. It was pretty accurate, as soon as the page updated they had stock.

 

[The_Dude8]

onsale does not look good:

Update About HP Touch Pads
by onSale on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:17pm

Dear Customers,

This is Robert Rich, President of OnSale. We appreciate your patience and apologize to our customers for any inconvenience related to unfulfilled orders for HP Touch Pads.

As a result of an unintended and unprecedented event, the dramatic price reduction in the discontinued HP Touch Pad which occurred over this past weekend, we received orders so quickly over a couple of hour period on Sunday that we were not able to properly process all of these orders.

At this time, we regret that we have determined we will not have sufficient clarity in a timely manner regarding additional availability of product to allow us to fill remaining unfulfilled orders. Unfortunately as a result, we are now cancelling unfulfilled orders and expect this process to be completed shortly. Customers whose orders are being canceled will receive a cancelation notice via e-mail. No credit cards have been charged for any unfulfilled orders.


Again, we are truly sorry for any inconvenience to customers and please accept our sincere apologies.

 

[middlehead]

http://slickdeals.net/?&u2=http://w...contract_desc=2+YEARS+NEW&pageMode=searchmode

lol. the only bestbuy in ~200 miles that has a touchpad is in flower mound

I was hoping to find a 32GB, but that link says my nearest store does have the 16s in stock. I might have to just run with it.

Never mind, just found the 32GB inventory check link and it says my store should be good there too.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I've not received my onSale cancellation yet, but I know it is coming.

I did a stock check and a BB in Lafayette, IN (60 miles away) and another in Richmond, IN (probably 80+ miles away) have stock. If you guys are close, might be worth it.

 

[Maligx]

Lame, ordered last night around 9:20pm EST from Insight and my status has not budged at all.

Date Entered: August 22, 2011
Est. Date Of Arrival: August 22, 2011
PO #:
Order Status: Processing
Payment Type: Credit Card
Credit Status: Contact Sales Rep (1)

 

[gevorg]

onsale does not look good:

Update About HP Touch Pads
by onSale on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:17pm

Dear Customers,

This is Robert Rich, President of OnSale. We appreciate your patience and apologize to our customers for any inconvenience related to unfulfilled orders for HP Touch Pads.

As a result of an unintended and unprecedented event, the dramatic price reduction in the discontinued HP Touch Pad which occurred over this past weekend, we received orders so quickly over a couple of hour period on Sunday that we were not able to properly process all of these orders.

At this time, we regret that we have determined we will not have sufficient clarity in a timely manner regarding additional availability of product to allow us to fill remaining unfulfilled orders. Unfortunately as a result, we are now cancelling unfulfilled orders and expect this process to be completed shortly. Customers whose orders are being canceled will receive a cancelation notice via e-mail. No credit cards have been charged for any unfulfilled orders.


Again, we are truly sorry for any inconvenience to customers and please accept our sincere apologies.

Dear Robert Rich,

Why was it so hard to specify inventory when the product was placed on Amazon? Did you hope that HP will subsidize all these orders for you? ResellerRatings will never be the same for OnSale. That is all.

-exCustomer

 

[Wyndru]

Woah, no netflix apps are available on this thing with webos, since it uses silverlight it doesnt work streaming from the site. I guess I need to check out the status of android on this thing.

 

[SunnyD]

Asshats with money. Props to him though... if I had $6-grand laying around that I could invest to make $8-grand in profits... can't say I wouldn't.

 

[Wyndru]

Lame, ordered last night around 9:20pm EST from Insight and my status has not budged at all.

Date Entered: August 22, 2011
Est. Date Of Arrival: August 22, 2011
PO #:
Order Status: Processing
Payment Type: Credit Card
Credit Status: Contact Sales Rep (1)

Did you go with the 16gb or 32? A lot of people who ordered the 16 have this status, the people who went for the 32 have a status:released and a arrival date of sept 6th. Mine just changed to sept 6th and released a few hours ago (32gb). I still don't know if either status means it will ship or not though.

Oh, and someone at another site said this:

Just spoke to a really nice CSR at insight and he said that if your order starts with "0313" they DID receive your order and they're currently in the credit approval process. Once that credit has been released, they'll send it over to "processing" and IF they still have any stock, they'll ship it for you. He also said they were told to stop taking orders around 8AM this morning, so they definitely oversold.

I ordered at noon today (9am their time), so I doubt I'm getting anything. I guess they oversold by about 3000 units today.

 

[aceO07]

Dear Robert Rich,

Why was it so hard to specify inventory when the product was placed on Amazon? Did you hope that HP will subsidize all these orders for you? ResellerRatings will never be the same for OnSale. That is all.

-exCustomer

The bad thing is that their Amazon product went out of stock a couple of times, BUT they brought it back each time!

 

[The Stigenator]

HP should really go ahead and make another 1-2 million units and then sell it at 199 and call it a day.

 

[douglasb]

Lame, ordered last night around 9:20pm EST from Insight and my status has not budged at all.

Date Entered: August 22, 2011
Est. Date Of Arrival: August 22, 2011
PO #:
Order Status: Processing
Payment Type: Credit Card
Credit Status: Contact Sales Rep (1)

What shipping type did you choose? I chose next-day air for my order from this place, and it's the only one I give a snowball's chance in hell of being fulfilled. I think they ship all the next-day air orders first.

 

[Maligx]

I went with 32gig and my order number starts with 0313 but I went with ground shipping :\

 

[IndyColtsFan]

HP should really go ahead and make another 1-2 million units and then sell it at 199 and call it a day.

And lose $100+ per unit?

 

[Wyndru]

I went with 32gig and my order number starts with 0313 but I went with ground shipping :\

Ground here too, but I placed my order this morning. I'm not sure why yours is in limbo, you might want to call them to see why it hasn't moved.

I guess people are even being told if their order will ship right over the phone, apparently they said 7000 won't ship according to others that have called. They are trying to get more to fill the orders from hp, but 7000 is a lot.


Has anyone gotten a status update from erwincomputers?

 

[cloudsurfer]

I've not received my onSale cancellation yet, but I know it is coming.

I did a stock check and a BB in Lafayette, IN (60 miles away) and another in Richmond, IN (probably 80+ miles away) have stock. If you guys are close, might be worth it.

What if your card was charged? Wouldn't that mean your order will go through?

 

[Sephire]

 

[Sephire]

Netflix is planned at the end of the year before all this HP shenanigans.

Oh well.

 

[Sephire]

BTW don't go to Best Buy until today or tomorrow. I need to buy more hehe.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

What if your card was charged? Wouldn't that mean your order will go through?

I have a pending charge from them, but it has not released as an actual charge yet. I've been told that onSale might be putting all the unfulfilled orders on "Backorder" rather than canceling them.

No big deal, my 32 GB from Best Buy will be here tomorrow.

 

[The Stigenator]

And lose $100+ per unit?

Well I doubt they are losing money over this at 99, they wont sell it below manufacturing costs. Remember the per unit cost was about 300 but thats if you buy individual units, not bulk. I would predict that the per unit manufacturing costs are probably 99 or slightly below. So at 199 they would make some money.

I wonder this will change amazon's tablet pricing policy.