HP TouchPad

online_man

ok thanks for letting me know.

Sorry guys... no reservation to pass on :-(

MoggieMoo

AHAR wrote: »

Write to your MEP!

I did meet with my local MP about this in 2009 and he took some interest. I received some stuff through in the post from the Houses of Commons but was too busy to take it further until the spring, at which point my MP was no longer my MP due to boundary changes. Who do I have now? Some idiot called Rees-Mogg!!!

With regard to eCommerce stores having some perceived advantage over bricks and mortar, how would a shop on the high street feel about having to pay cash to every person walking through the door - even if they are 'just looking'. It's called Adwords dude, and it's a fact of life these days for web sales. High street shops are able to sell their goods at much higher gross margins than websites because there is less competition at the point of sale. Each sales model has it's own intrinsic advantages, and for this reason the DSR should not interfere with trading terms as they do. The unconditional right to cancel harms eCommerce sales in more ways than you can imagine when margins are wafer thin to start with.

The trading laws should either be enhanced to allow face to face buyers the same rights as online buyers, or the DSR should be revised to remove this blatantly unfair advantage. Thankfully, most consumers are still blissfully unaware of how far the DSR goes. I think the reason for this is that most people of fair moral values would consider it unreasonable to expect to return goods in a 'spoiled' state which they received in pristine condition. How would they feel if they had bought those same new goods and received them with broken seals and in an obviously 'handled' condition?

Nobody wants to buy soiled goods at new prices and online margins don't often realistically provide the opportunity to re-sell returned goods at a reduced price taking into account their condition at a level which is above cost price. Even selling online at cost price results in a loss taking into account advertising, processing fees, operating costs, etc.

The DSR unconditional right to cancel is clearly unfair and needs to be revised.

ck12111

davemorton wrote: »

I think there has been a thread set up for people to request these.

Where is that?

lil_tinks

I have just spoken to my friend at HP who has said that there will be no more stock going to any stores anywhere. PC World and Amazon were the only stores that were given more allocation and the rest went to HP staff, most of whom didn't get one either as they sold out so quickly. Their's went on sale yesterday at 10.30 am and they were only allowed one each.
The 1000 that are rumoured to be going out are the ones that were allocated to PC World apparently and were sold on the website lastnight.
So, it sounds like the only option now is Ebay, or the people that reserved one at Argos kindly donating a reservation code (which seems highly unlikely!)

HTH

ck12111

online_man wrote: »

Hi Guys,

I've just stumbled on this thread as i need some advice.

I got wind quite early of the HP touchpad sale, and so on Monday reserved 2 via Argos.

They sent me 2 messages yesterday, saying I could pick them up on Friday.

However I have just recieved a call from Argos saying that they have a 1 per customer rule. So they are scrapping one of my reservations!

Can they do that?
I would happily pass that reservation unto someone here, if I can find out if they are pulling a fast one!

Thanks

They can do that where abouts it the store?

chimaera450

Has anyone who ordered via Dixons/Currys/PCW online when the price cuts went live on Monday night received confirmation of delivery yet?

Northernstar

ladymarmalade222 wrote: »

Do you have the link for checking orders for CPW. I have an order number via first email but nothing else. I have tried the yodel one, is this the same?

Many Thanks

No yodel is different, here's the link to CPW tracking.

https://www.mycarphonewarehouse.com/portal/servlet/gben-ordertrack-OrderTrack

Prodigal_$on

MoggieMoo wrote: »

I did meet with my local MP about this in 2009 and he took some interest. I received some stuff through in the post from the Houses of Commons but was too busy to take it further until the spring, at which point my MP was no longer my MP due to boundary changes. Who do I have now? Some idiot called Rees-Mogg!!!

With regard to eCommerce stores having some perceived advantage over bricks and mortar, how would a shop on the high street feel about having to pay cash to every person walking through the door - even if they are 'just looking'. It's called Adwords dude, and it's a fact of life these days for web sales. High street shops are able to sell their goods at much higher gross margins than websites because there is less competition at the point of sale. Each sales model has it's own intrinsic advantages, and for this reason the DSR should not interfere with trading terms as they do. The unconditional right to cancel harms eCommerce sales in more ways than you can imagine when margins are wafer thin to start with.

The trading laws should either be enhanced to allow face to face buyers the same rights as online buyers, or the DSR should be revised to remove this blatantly unfair advantage. Thankfully, most consumers are still blissfully unaware of how far the DSR goes. I think the reason for this is that most people of fair moral values would consider it unreasonable to expect to return goods in a 'spoiled' state which they received in pristine condition. How would they feel if they had bought those same new goods and received them with broken seals and in an obviously 'handled' condition?

Nobody wants to buy soiled goods at new prices and online margins don't often realistically provide the opportunity to re-sell returned goods at a reduced price taking into account their condition at a level which is above cost price. Even selling online at cost price results in a loss taking into account advertising, processing fees, operating costs, etc.

The DSR unconditional right to cancel is clearly unfair and needs to be revised.

This is clearly not the place to be discussing this at length.

Although it seems you views are borne from the possibility that you may be an online seller. Shops on the high street would have a different view and so would most consumers.

End of, moving on....

Growlybear

chimaera450 wrote: »

Has anyone who ordered via Dixons/Currys/PCW online when the price cuts went live on Monday night received confirmation of delivery yet?

I ordered one from PC World at about 10.30 on Tuesday morning, when the 32gb was suddenly listed again. I'd also tried to order from Amazon and Laskys but both of these orders were cancelled, so I assumed that I wouldn't get the PC World one either, but I was really excited to get cofirmation of despatch late last night, and according to the tracking, it's out for delivery at the moment!

Zither

Lots of tweets at to @UKTesco about HP Touchpad price. I noticed a couple of tweets from Tesco apologising but nothing more