HP Touchpads 170 sterling on ebay

jazzy cian

Hey,
this is for anyone who was disappointed by not getting a touchpad real cheap, there is a shop on Ebay, Welsh I think selling them pretty reasonably. 170 sterling for the 16gb and 200 for the 32gb. I know its not as cheap as they were originally but its still a pretty good price when you look at the price of ipads.

And this shop has loads of them, more than 10 available and they have sold over 800 of the 16gb ones.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/3monkeys

Padraig Mor

"Sorry at this stage we only deliver to UK mainland address's and do not sell outside the UK."

pajoemccracken

jazzy cian wrote: »

Hey,
this is for anyone who was disappointed by not getting a touchpad real cheap, there is a shop on Ebay, Welsh I think selling them pretty reasonably. 170 sterling for the 16gb and 200 for the 32gb. I know its not as cheap as they were originally but its still a pretty good price when you look at the price of ipads.

And this shop has loads of them, more than 10 available and they have sold over 800 of the 16gb ones.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/3monkeys

800 16gb HP Touchpads! Wow
They bought them for at most £85 pounds so thats £68,000 profit.
Just shows that profiteering does pay.
But can they sleep at night??

groom

...on a mattress made of money with several lovely ladies

jazzy cian

Padraig Mor wrote: »

"Sorry at this stage we only deliver to UK mainland address's and do not sell outside the UK."

my brother got one a week or two ago so maybe message them

Kenny Logins

pajoemccracken wrote: »

But can they sleep at night??

Yes.

pissed

Who needs sleep when you can stay up all night counting yer money

discombobulate

pajoemccracken wrote: »

800 16gb HP Touchpads! Wow
They bought them for at most £85 pounds so thats £68,000 profit.
Just shows that profiteering does pay.
But can they sleep at night??

Isn't that what every shop in the world does. Buys something cheaper and sells it for more

phill106

Certain irish site is selling the 16gb for 350....pisstake!

dodzy

pajoemccracken wrote: »

Just shows that profiteering does pay.
But can they sleep at night??

Selling on average 20 per day for the last 5 days ( and thats just the 16gb model ). Roughly half that amount on the 32gb models ). Almost 1300 sold in total. Jammie bastard........and sleepin like a baby, no doubt. Fair play to him / her / them.

Voodu Child

These things were good value at €99 but the Touchpad bargain-hunting craze has died down and there's a lot of much more interesting stuff around the corner.

Also the price of a quality tablet is going to come down in the near future now that Amazon launched the Kindle Fire at $200 (and Nook Tablet at $250).

The days of the €500 tablet are soon to be gone (except for Apple obviously) so you have to ask yourself if you really want to spend £170 on an obsolete HP Touchpad that you probably never even heard of before the fire sale. Better save the £170 and put it towards something you genuinely want when it comes out, not something you're getting just because it is cheap.

Vertakill

Phew.. Good stuff Voodu, the voice of reasoning stopped me from making an impulse buy for a present..

You're dead right though!

Completionist

The question is, How did they manage to get so many?!

Surely they didn't go and buy them online and put 2000 at the quantity?:P

paddydriver

Completionist wrote: »

The question is, How did they manage to get so many?!

Surely they didn't go and buy them online and put 2000 at the quantity?:P

Chinese clones!

Amalgam

Voodu Child wrote: »

The days of the €500 tablet are soon to be gone (except for Apple obviously) so you have to ask yourself if you really want to spend £170 on an obsolete HP

I agree with your point about €500 tablets.. but I'd have to disagree on the second point, the HP has very similar dual core specs as the Amazon Fire and similar brands like the archos G9 line of products.

I see the Fire as being quite restrictive, with more than a nod and a wink towards Apple's 'walled garden' way of doing things. The lack of a memory card slot, really.. it's 2011. No bluetooth or GPS, sod that.

Hardware wise, for the HP.. I wouldn't use the word obsolete.

HP's OS issue will be cured soon enough, thanks in part to an army of online Android devotees.. What is being touted currently, at the €200 mark, is a fairly quirky landscape of 'almost, but not quite' suitable tablets, depending on what your needs and expectations are.

Currently, if you offered me a choice of a HP TouchPad, a Lenovo A1 (€199 Europe), Archos G9 (€249-ish Europe) or Amazon Fire (???).. to be honest, I'd pick the HP.

That's just a personal choice, I can fully understand why someone would pick something else.

Seoda1

Amalgam wrote: »

Voodu Child wrote: »

The days of the €500 tablet are soon to be gone (except for Apple obviously) so you have to ask yourself if you really want to spend £170 on an obsolete HP

I agree with your point about €500 tablets.. but I'd have to disagree on the second point, the HP has very similar dual core specs as the Amazon Fire and similar brands like the archos G9 line of products.

I see the Fire as being quite restrictive, with more than a nod and a wink towards Apple's 'walled garden' way of doing things. The lack of a memory card slot, really.. it's 2011. No bluetooth or GPS, sod that.

Hardware wise, for the HP.. I wouldn't use the word obsolete.

HP's OS issue will be cured soon enough, thanks in part to an army of online Android devotees.. What is being touted currently, at the €200 mark, is a fairly quirky landscape of 'almost, but not quite' suitable tablets, depending on what your needs and expectations are.

Currently, if you offered me a choice of a HP TouchPad, a Lenovo A1 (€199 Europe), Archos G9 (€249-ish Europe) or Amazon Fire (???).. to be honest, I'd pick the HP.

That's just a personal choice, I can fully understand why someone would pick something else.

What would be your second choice, I hope you don't mind me asking?

Ardennes1944

What about the hannspree hannstab? 53 model

Amalgam

Seoda1 wrote: »

What would be your second choice, I hope you don't mind me asking?

The Lenovo A1. That's a purely personal choice, not a 'this is the best', but.. 'this might suit me best' post.

Here's a list of online suppliers at Geizhals, traders in Germany and Austria with the Lenovo A1, many will ship to Ireland.

http://geizhals.at/eu/?in=&fs=Lenovo+A1

Price is right. Just a euro short of €200. perfect for me. If it gets walked on, or chewed by a household pet, not quite the calamity of losing a €300-400-500 tablet.

Compact and light.
'Standard' Netbook resolution. Which I'm well used to. 1024x600
Build quality seems better than the Archos.
Tablet has the style aesthetic and simplicity of the first 7" Samsung Tab, which I find pleasing.
Standard USB port. Not sure about USB charging though.
Bluetooth\GPS combo. No more fiddling required with external hardware

Downside

Single core CPU.

I'm not convinced mutliple cores are needed for the large majority of people that will 'just' browse on the tablet, I'm a browser\email\light music and an SD DVD Rip consumer. Not much else, those are my needs.

'obsolete' OS (Android 2.3.4)

This, for me, has its advantages, very easy to root and manipulate in a manner that *suits me*.

Anyway, that's what I have my eye on at the moment. Weighing things up.

I would buy a Fire if, eventually, there were tutorials on hacking an SD\Micro Slot onto the thing, but I'm not rushed into buying a device where data can't be shunted around easily, without the availability of network shares\router\wifi etc..

Headshot

jazzy cian wrote: »

my brother got one a week or two ago so maybe message them

"Thank you for your email, I am afraid we only ship items within the UK and are not able to ship any items to the Republic of Ireland. Please accept my apologies for this inconvenience."

Seoda1

Amalgam wrote: »

Seoda1 wrote: »

What would be your second choice, I hope you don't mind me asking?

The Lenovo A1. That's a purely personal choice, not a 'this is the best', but.. 'this might suit me best' post.

Here's a list of online suppliers at Geizhals, traders in Germany and Austria with the Lenovo A1, many will ship to Ireland.

http://geizhals.at/eu/?in=&fs=Lenovo+A1

Price is right. Just a euro short of €200. perfect for me. If it gets walked on, or chewed by a household pet, not quite the calamity of losing a €300-400-500 tablet.

Compact and light.
'Standard' Netbook resolution. Which I'm well used to. 1024x600
Build quality seems better than the Archos.
Tablet has the style aesthetic and simplicity of the first 7" Samsung Tab, which I find pleasing.
Standard USB port. Not sure about USB charging though.
Bluetooth\GPS combo. No more fiddling required with external hardware

Downside

Single core CPU.

I'm not convinced mutliple cores are needed for the large majority of people that will 'just' browse on the tablet, I'm a browser\email\light music and an SD DVD Rip consumer. Not much else, those are my needs.

'obsolete' OS (Android 2.3.4)

This, for me, has its advantages, very easy to root and manipulate in a manner that *suits me*.

Anyway, that's what I have my eye on at the moment. Weighing things up.

I would buy a Fire if, eventually, there were tutorials on hacking an SD\Micro Slot onto the thing, but I'm not rushed into buying a device where data can't be shunted around easily, without the availability of network shares\router\wifi etc..

Thanks a million! Before, I was tempted in buying a tablet but now you have me very interested! Thanks again!

mp3ireland2

Hi

Thanks for your query. Unfortunately we only ship to UK mainland and NI addresses at this point, we also do not sell outside of the UK.

Kind Regards

Gareth

- 3monkeys


I was looking at buying a Sat nav off them as they have one for £35 :-(

mik_da_man

I got a touchpad off eBay a while ago for $200 with case and touchstone. I have to say they are a very decent bit of kit. The build quality is great. Very responsive and IMO a brilliant os.

I have an archos 101 and the touchpad is miles ahead of it. I've used a few other android tablets and I'd still pick the HP over most of them.

It does lack the amount of apps that iOS and android have. But if like me you are using it for web/email it's perfect. Also has beats audio so the sound is very decent too.

phill106

Loving mine too, using it for browsing/mail/watching videos and my new found thing, reading!
Download calibre, send ebooks to your device and you can import them right into kindle. It is great.

giggsirish

Looks like Touchpad stock is once again available to IE??

http://www.expansys.ie/hp-touchpad-16gb-with-wi-fi-black-209138/

Some price hike mind!

Jarren

32g version

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0057MY692/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&s=computers&psc=1

Still not worth the money in my opinion

Keith186

This isn't a bargain alert.

Its double the fire sale price!

I would pay €150 for a 16gb one however, that'd be a fair price.

harney

phill106 wrote: »

Loving mine too, using it for browsing/mail/watching videos and my new found thing, reading!
Download calibre, send ebooks to your device and you can import them right into kindle. It is great.

I haven't bothered with the Kindle app yet, but preader is pretty nifty and opens quite a few formats.

http://forums.precentral.net/webos-homebrew-apps/212660-preader-ebook-reader-palm-doc-files.html#post2012961

eamon234

pajoemccracken wrote: »

jazzy cian wrote: »

Hey,
this is for anyone who was disappointed by not getting a touchpad real cheap, there is a shop on Ebay, Welsh I think selling them pretty reasonably. 170 sterling for the 16gb and 200 for the 32gb. I know its not as cheap as they were originally but its still a pretty good price when you look at the price of ipads.

And this shop has loads of them, more than 10 available and they have sold over 800 of the 16gb ones.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/3monkeys

800 16gb HP Touchpads! Wow
They bought them for at most £85 pounds so thats £68,000 profit.
Just shows that profiteering does pay.
But can they sleep at night??

I believe it's referred to as 'Business'

jazzy cian

Keith186 wrote: »

This isn't a bargain alert.

Its double the fire sale price!

I would pay €150 for a 16gb one however, that'd be a fair price.

Well its my mistake, I didn't realise they didn't post to Ireland anymore. But it certainly is a bargain at that price, I have one and can honestly say its better than the ipad. Hardware and software wise.

dodzy

jazzy cian wrote: »

Well its my mistake, I didn't realise they didn't post to Ireland anymore. But it certainly is a bargain at that price, I have one and can honestly say its better than the ipad. Hardware and software wise.

Cheaper, yes. Better....... Everyone to their own. IMO, the ipad (2) is superb and would prove very hard to beat.