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HP Touchpad Thread (NO Discussion Of Personal Buying/Selling)

upandcumming

Just a heads up to people.

I'm in NY for the summer and I've just ordered 2 of these for $220.
HP have discontinued the Touchpad this week and are now letting them go for $99 (16GB) and $149 (32GB).

I know most of you aren't in the USA but treat this as a heads up to get a very good tablet, with Flash Player, at a knock-down price.

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Broadbander

I was just in Argos Galway and still no stock or sign of any more coming.....

No stock showing either for HP employees (wife) through elara.

For a discontinued product it surely is popular!!!

Com'on tablet makers get in, the demand is there.

neacy69

timtru wrote: »

i know this is not the thread for this discussion. it might be worth starting a new one for those who manged to buy one?
pcmag article: 'Is the Project to Put Android on the HP TouchPad Dead?'
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391767,00.asp

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056366228

donegal11

DMG_49 wrote: »

Yeah I know what you mean, nothing came to Letterkenny

The manager didn't know what I was talking about. Thought it was an error

no sign of any coming in, he checked surrounding stores and they had nothing.

Letterkenny had stock as someone on here got one ,did you reserve one ?

Basq

bytesize wrote: »

Is that just of the touchpad or the ore3 too? Where did you hear they are getting more stock?

Nope.. only the Pre3.

Kin mentioned it over on the Elara forum.

JoeyJJ

iPhone. wrote: »

Same boat here, not sligo, but no stock in store - had text etc, no joy.

chin up lad - we boardsies are made of stronger stuff :cool::cool:

To Hell or to Connaught !! Pretty poor alright.

partyatmygaff

Broadbander wrote: »

Com'on tablet makers get in, the demand is there.

There is huge demand for €99 high quality tablets.

Then again, there'd be huge demand for €99 luxury cars as well.

Selling a high quality tablet for €99 and making a profit is simply impossible.

DMG_49

donegal11 wrote: »

Letterkenny had stock as someone on here got one ,did you reserve one ?

Couldn't get one reserved, but was down at 9 the last morning nothing and

down today no luck either...Maybe they got whatever stock was in the shop

before the price reduction.

NeoRox

Argos reservations being honoured in Wexford. Just picked mine up, reserved 21/8.

Thanks to the OP.

karltimber

JoeyJJ wrote: »

You could ring your credit card company and ask if they have checked the card and locked the money. Might not show online yet but credit card company might have more info.

Thanks Joey,

Not showing on cc but aib-visa just told me they authorised a e143 (32gb) payment yesterday to dabs.
so happy days.

Thanks folks.

K

LowOdour

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

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LowOdour wrote: »

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

Non!

DMG_49

LowOdour wrote: »

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

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Tinie

LowOdour wrote: »

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

http://translate.google.com/

Voodu Child

LowOdour wrote: »

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

Its not necessary to email them, I would have thought the situation is obvious.

They took rakes more orders than they have stock, and now they are fighting with everyone else to get whatever tablets are left in the supply chain....there'll be a few sitting in warehouses or in trucks but not a significant quantity.

If they get some they'll fill the orders they took on a FCFS basis.

Basq

LowOdour wrote: »

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

I'd say 98% of orders are in the same boat...

.. you'll just get the "awaiting stock" generic e-mail.

They don't know anymore.. once they do, they'll let you know.

jimmy_t

fnac have set up a dedicated email address for inquiries about the touchpad, twitter quote:

As promised, here is the address where vs can ask all your questions about your orders shelves # # hp touchpad: fnacoeur@fnac.com

Thank you to include your telephone number, customer service will do its maximum to satisfy you as much as possible # # hp touchpad

/end quote

chances are they probably set it up so that it could just spew out an automated reply!

thats a google translate job too, the twitter posts are in french so youll have to email them in french, im presuming they have nothing though and are waiting to see if they can get more to fill orders.

partyatmygaff

LowOdour wrote: »

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

Madame, Monsieur,

Récemment sur le 22/8, j'ai commandé un <<HP Touchpad>> avec numéro de commande (INSERT ORDER NUMBER HERE). Jusqu'à maintenant, le statut de ma commande reste inchangé. En ce moment, il continue a dire <<commandé>>. Yat-il un problème avec ma commande?

Cordialement,
(INSERT NAME HERE)

LC French does come in handy from time to time...

Tweaky

Soarer wrote: »

I'd just like to thank the Boardie (who shall remain anon unless he wants to be outted!) who contacted me before lunch asking if I wanted his spare code for a 32gb in Argos.

I'd helped him out nearly 2 years ago and at the time he said he hoped he could return the favour at some stage.

Well today turned out to be that day, even though I'd long since forgotten our interaction, and I'm now the proud owner of a 32gb TouchPad.

As I said to the guy in question, it's proof that karma does exist. It also reaffirms what Bargain Alerts is all about.

God bless everyone!

You're welcome Soarer. You got me out of a hole two years ago and I wanted to return the favour. I knew that you would give it a good home.

Enjoy it.
Tweaky.

Eamo01

* sound of people furiously clicking 'post history' to see what the favour was *

donegal11

DMG_49 wrote: »

Couldn't get one reserved, but was down at 9 the last morning nothing and

down today no luck either...Maybe they got whatever stock was in the shop

before the price reduction.

I was the same in that I couldn't see how to reserve as they were out of stock since sunday although I only checked the 16gb.Would say argos shops in North might of had being more fruitful but in saying that I really didn't think they would have dropped the price with all the reservations at full price

TEFLONT

just back from picking mine up from Argos Reserved Monday morning fist thing

Duddy

So is this offer ending anytime? Argos says the price is staying the same til January...seems a bit too good to be true?

getoffthepot

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Madame, Monsieur,

Récemment sur le 22/8, j'ai commandé un <<HP Touchpad>> avec numéro de commande (INSERT ORDER NUMBER HERE). Jusqu'à maintenant, le statut de ma commande reste inchangé. En ce moment, il continue a dire <<commandé>>. Yat-il un problème avec ma commande?

Cordialement,
(INSERT NAME HERE)

LC French does come in handy from time to time...

use this

http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|

Sniipe

Tweaky wrote: »

...You got me out of a hole...

Eamo01 wrote: »

* sound of people furiously clicking 'post history' to see what the favour was *

Isn't it obvious? Your man was in a hole, he must have had a rope / ladder / ...

stevenmu

Duddy wrote: »

So is this offer ending anytime? Argos says the price is staying the same til January...seems a bit too good to be true?

The price won't ever change because they're no longer being made. Once the final units work their way through whatever supply chains they're in that's the end.

partyatmygaff

Duddy wrote: »

So is this offer ending anytime? Argos says the price is staying the same til January...seems a bit too good to be true?

HP are having a firesale. When the stocks gone, it's gone. Judging by how fast these things sell out (Thousands in a minute) i'd say they'll be long finished before January.

Basq

Sniipe wrote: »

Isn't it obvious? Your man was in a hole, he must have had a rope / ladder / ...

Alternatively, it was sexual shenanigans that went awry..

Kenny Logins

Duddy wrote: »

So is this offer ending anytime? Argos says the price is staying the same til January...seems a bit too good to be true?

That's irrelevant, there's no stock available.

Old_-_School

LowOdour wrote: »

Can anybody here speak French? Tempted to email FNAC and ask them what the story is with my item is.....but im sure they are bombarded with enquirys about it. My status hasnt changed from Ordered since the first evening...but still no payment has been taken from my account, which worries me slightly

They set up a dedicated email address which is fnacoeur@fnac.com to deal with touchpad queries. Include your phone no. in the email.
Their twitter page is: http://twitter.com/#!/FnacHighTech

partyatmygaff

getoffthepot wrote: »

use this

http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|

Eh, someone was asking if anyone here knew how to speak French because he wanted to ask FNAC about his order status. I wrote him up a quick email. I'm not the one who needs to translate anything

Google Translate produces an even worse translation English -> French than it does when translating French -> English. Real translations are still much better.