£89 HP touchpad

azza87

savemoney wrote: »

Theres one guy on ebay UK that had around 30 sold he must have been a retailer maybe using staffs account

Most probably. It really gets my goat that there are loads of us wanting one for £89 or £115 and there are people buying loads of them to sell them on for profit, with probably no intention of keeping one for themselves anyway.

According to HP there will be more stock of the touchpads but each retailer is to set the selling price themselves, this to me sounds as if nobody is going to be getting one for the £89/£115 RRP now.

azza87

Zack1 wrote: »

For me, as I was originally considering an iPad, that price isn't too bad, but I won't buy one from eBay on principle now.

The price is bad when you consider it's coming from the USA which means you will have to pay inport tax and vat on top!

Also remember it may not seem that expensive but it's at $286 and the retail price in the US is $149 so they have doubled their money!

savemoney

Your probably right.

I wanted two but as I said other day my daughter would like one most, I wont go into detail now because I am obviously a liar not aimed at you some other muppet who even compared with the riots a few weeks back

azza87 wrote: »

Most probably. It really gets my goat that there are loads of us wanting one for £89 or £115 and there are people buying loads of them to sell them on for profit, with probably no intention of keeping one for themselves anyway.

According to HP there will be more stock of the touchpads but each retailer is to set the selling price themselves, this to me sounds as if nobody is going to be getting one for the £89/£115 RRP now.

azza87

savemoney wrote: »

Your probably right.

I wanted two but as I said other day my daughter would like one most, I wont go into detail now because I am obviously a liar

I wasn't talking about you! Or anyone else on here for that matter (at least I hope not) I am talking about the greedy resellers on ebay!

savemoney

Dont import my daughter got stung the other week for £30 for £100 in clothes, I told her not too

Tye

azza87 wrote: »

Most probably. It really gets my goat that there are loads of us wanting one for £89 or £115 and there are people buying loads of them to sell them on for profit, with probably no intention of keeping one for themselves anyway.

According to HP there will be more stock of the touchpads but each retailer is to set the selling price themselves, this to me sounds as if nobody is going to be getting one for the £89/£115 RRP now.

Here's a positive thought when that happens all these eBay profiteers are going to be forced to reconsider there prices...Who'd buy a Touchpad 16gb for £200 when you can go down to Argos and buy the same thing!!!

DirtPoorGuy

If as Argos say it is a glitch, and they have no record of my order, 2 seperate orders placed an hour apart, how come there is £1 on my credit card on hold as a test payment to them?, things can go wrong but lying to your customers is bad form and makes me distrust buying from them in the future, I have had problems with delivery of online purchases from them in the past but this is the final straw.

savemoney

I no you wasnt, you miss understood me it was someone else who had a go

azza87 wrote: »

I wasn't talking about you! Or anyone else on here for that matter (at least I hope not) I am talking about the greedy resellers on ebay!

stayathomedad_2

Tye wrote: »

Here's a positive thought when that happens all these eBay profiteers are going to be forced to reconsider there prices...Who'd buy a Touchpad 16gb for £200 when you can go down to Argos and buy the same thing!!!

It always amazes me what sells on eBay when you can get it on special offer at tesco or Argos. Don't know who wants to buy off eBay instead of a household name.

There is obviously a market at £200-£250 out there so those who bought for profit won't miss out but it is annoying how difficult it makes it for those who just want one for ourselves. I am only interested in a £100 maximum priced tablet for daughter, similarly my dad wants one for £100 but wouldn't pay any more. If a company could make and sell one for £100 it would be on every coffee table in the country but looks like that isn't going to happen soon.

I_luv_cats

Zack1 wrote: »

For me, as I was originally considering an iPad, that price isn't too bad, but I won't buy one from eBay on principle now.

I had an Ipad2 for a little while & got it refunded, it was good to view my Ipod Touch apps n games + music videos on a larger screen. (and obtain ipad designated content)

The lack of flash problem (and html5 errors) stopped me working productively as I had to keep diving on to my laptop to view flash based websites etc.

I didn't want to spend £400+ on an Android Tablet, just to surf the net. (and fork out more on Android apps n games)

So reluctantly I bought a netbook for portability, flash etc, memory capacity, accessibility. It can be slow @ times at there are more processes running.

The HP Touchpad would fit in nicely price / practicability / portability if can just get my paws on one!!!!!!!!