In the meantime I'll share a doesn't-own-a-tablet-but-has-a-work-iPad guy's quest to get a $99 TouchPad on Friday night. I arrived home from work and saw the firesale news on the twitternetz. I immediately left my house and walked to the local Futureshop, not really expecting there to be any. They were out and directed me to Staples, who was also out. Meanwhile my friend was driving to the Futureshop and Costco just outside town. FS was out and Costco had 5 of them, stil priced at $500, but employees had taken them off the shelf since they were dropping the price the following day and they wanted to claim them.
I then checked The Source before giving up. London Drugs was surely out by that time, around 8:30 pm, and that was my last bet. One of the guys at The Source was willing to sell me his used 16 gb TouchPad for $200.
So I just came home, gave up, and am now lamenting all the TouchPads on eBay and Craigslist. I was apparently one of the few who actually wanted one. Hopefully nobody buys them and the price drops back down now that these people will be stuck with TouchPads they didn't actually want. I shouldn't complain too loudly though because my plan was to buy a 32 GB and 2x 16 GBs, then sell the 16 GBs at a profit to pay for my 32 GB.
(If you're curious, I'm furnishing a new place so I don't have a lot of disposable cash otherwise I would have just a bought a TouchPad at full price.)
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 10.4 ms ] threadIn the meantime I'll share a doesn't-own-a-tablet-but-has-a-work-iPad guy's quest to get a $99 TouchPad on Friday night. I arrived home from work and saw the firesale news on the twitternetz. I immediately left my house and walked to the local Futureshop, not really expecting there to be any. They were out and directed me to Staples, who was also out. Meanwhile my friend was driving to the Futureshop and Costco just outside town. FS was out and Costco had 5 of them, stil priced at $500, but employees had taken them off the shelf since they were dropping the price the following day and they wanted to claim them.
I then checked The Source before giving up. London Drugs was surely out by that time, around 8:30 pm, and that was my last bet. One of the guys at The Source was willing to sell me his used 16 gb TouchPad for $200.
So I just came home, gave up, and am now lamenting all the TouchPads on eBay and Craigslist. I was apparently one of the few who actually wanted one. Hopefully nobody buys them and the price drops back down now that these people will be stuck with TouchPads they didn't actually want. I shouldn't complain too loudly though because my plan was to buy a 32 GB and 2x 16 GBs, then sell the 16 GBs at a profit to pay for my 32 GB.
(If you're curious, I'm furnishing a new place so I don't have a lot of disposable cash otherwise I would have just a bought a TouchPad at full price.)