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Cut price HP Touchpads tip up on Amazon UK
A CUT PRICE 16GB HP Touchpad has tipped up on Amazon UK priced at £250.
The sold out tablet is available from several of Amazon's resellers, starting at around £239. The 32GB version is available for £280, but apparently there are only five left in stock.
We don't know where this new stock has come from, but we do know that HP told us yesterday that its final batch of Touchpads will be released only in North America. We can only assume that this lot is left over from HP's previous fire sale, rather than part of the new batch.
The HP web site and Palm Eurostore are still listing the HP Touchpad as sold out. We also visited other online retailers including Clove, Expansys and Carphone Warehouse, but none of them are selling the Touchpad.
The INQUIRER wishes HP would be clearer about what's going on as we have become extremely confused. Whether anyone will want these £250 Touchpads with a possibly dead WebOS operating system is another matter. µ
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Amazon accepted an order for two "Temporarily out of stock but we'll have them in soon" Touchpads for me, at the "fire sale" price of £89. Then they waited two days and canceled the order, saying the item "was discontinued and we won't be getting any more stock".
Except that at the same time they sent out the cancellation they put them back on sale again, on the same page, only priced at £200+.
Basically, they only listed it at the low price (while simultaneously flagging it as "Temporarily out of stock" so nobody actually paid that price) and accepted orders to prevent anyone from moving on and ordering them elsewhere, so they would be forced to buy at the increased price when the orders were canceled.
Bloody Amazon.
And they're flaying off the shelves, not.
Vendors might have shifted a lot of them at this price point but after the firesale. Now £250 looks expensive especially when it's still not an Ipad.
The price has been 250 several times before, though flying up and down on hourly basis