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[info] For any one who can't wait for the ASUS transformer

Just wanted to let you know I got my Asus transformer today, within 3 days of my order date. I ordered it off eBay from an twain merchant, he had it listed for $799 on Buy it Now, but i got it for $599 using the best offer button. That price including all shipping and I wasn't charged any tax or import fees. So anyways just let you all know if you want to buy one you can get it off eBay for $599 US including shipping and tax, and i got mine in 3days of the order!

or just wait until tues and save $200...even if you did order today it wouldnt come before tuesday anyways

mkooner said:
Just wanted to let you know I got my Asus transformer today, within 3 days of my order date. I ordered it off eBay from an twain merchant, he had it listed for $799 on Buy it Now, but i got it for $599 using the best offer button. That price including all shipping and I wasn't charged any tax or import fees. So anyways just let you all know if you want to buy one you can get it off eBay for $599 US including shipping and tax, and i got mine in 3days of the order!
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umm... release date is under 3 days... i'll take my warranty, thanks

I'd feel so stupid.
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T3rry1 said:
umm... release date is under 3 days... i'll take my warranty, thanks
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FYI I think square trade gives you better warranty than Bestbuy and you don't have to buy it in the U.S..

juanaraya92679 said:
FYI I think square trade gives you better warranty than Bestbuy and you don't have to buy it in the U.S..
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True but if with BB, you can go to any store.

and no guarantee you're getting the release version; it could be one of the CES earlier release models with the original hardware home button on the right and the hardware orientation lock switch. Who knows which firmware also.

you guys are planning on buying the extended warrant from bestbuy or where ever you get it from?
i think the T3rry1 was referring to manufacturer's warranty

neotekz said:
you guys are planning on buying the extended warrant from bestbuy or where ever you get it from?
i think the T3rry1 was referring to manufacturer's warranty
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correct
warranty =/= return policy

Just called my local Best Buy, Said they are getting them on the 24th except they are closed for Easter but will have them on the Monday the 25th.

I thought about ordering it on eBay but its not worth it... $699, $799, etc. is just too much and plus I don't trust overseas merchants.

[INFO] US Keyboard Dock Availability and Tracking Thread

I thought it'd be a good idea to separate the docks from the main thread. For those of us who were fortunate enough to already receive a 16GB tablet, our next step is to locate a keyboard dock
Post any information you find in here! I have my Page Monitor in chrome set to autorefresh product links from about 4 stores right now
Product Pages:
Amazon
American TV
B&H Photo/Video
Buy.com
Fry's
J&R
Neobits
Newegg
TigerDirect
Walmart

Great idea! I need me a dock!
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good idea man. I have the tablet and the sleeve on the way so all i need is the keyboard

Amen, those docks are elusive... I actually have a friend in Taiwan who's gonna look around locally for me to see if there are any US version docks over there. I'll update if I here back that there are some...

Awesome thread idea. Now which one to pre-purchase from...

Good idea! any idea on when the keyboard docks will be available?

I've had a preorder in for the dock on Amazon since they first listed it (the night of the midnight release). I preordered the dock and the tablet from them but cancelled the tablet because Bestbuy.com actually had one to sell me that night while Amazon.com was out of them before I made it through the whole order process.
I imagine Amazon's backlog of preorders for the dock is pretty huge by now.
Of course, if anyone else can actually confirm a shipping unit out to me before my Amazon preorder ships I'll cancel that as well, but I suspect the dock will be really, really difficult to find for a while, though it is kind of puzzling as to why (as cool as the dock concept is, the dock is a fairly straightforward piece of electronics compared to the tablet).
AFAIK the dock hasn't actually sold a single unit retail yet, the only copies I've heard about were the ones sent to reviewers.

Thanks for putting up this thread. Really getting frustrated with the total lack of nws from ASUS about the dock. Sure, they're out of tabs, fine, but do they really have zero keyboards to go out with the tabs they did ship to the usa? It is ridicukous. Here's hopibg we get some news and a big pile of docks very soon.
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I'll post my experience if it helps anyone. I ordered my dock from AmericanTV when they were selling it as a pre order on the 23rd. Was able to snag it for just under $140 shipped, my credit card has already been charged, but the item has not shipped yet. They sent me a confirmation email for the order that was immediately followed by another email tha said the item was out of stock and would ship once the items became available. At the time, the estimated time was about 2 weeks or so. They also sent me a paper receipt in the mail, but I haven't heard anything else since.

J&R
I had an order at JR.com for both the tablet and dock. But then my amazon order updated, so I canceled by J&R order. But when talking to J&R on the phone, they said they expect to get docks in early May. Since BestBuy website also says Dock available in May, and it is already May, I would expect them to pop up soon all over the place.

cloud9ine said:
I had an order at JR.com for both the tablet and dock. But then my amazon order updated, so I canceled by J&R order. But when talking to J&R on the phone, they said they expect to get docks in early May. Since BestBuy website also says Dock available in May, and it is already May, I would expect them to pop up soon all over the place.
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Yeah, I've had a pre-order with J&R since 4/26 for the dock as well. I am guessing 2nd week of May we start hearing about these little suckers trickling out. Hopefully I'll get mine soon since its one of the main reasons I got this tablet and am considering selling my ipad...

cloud9ine said:
I had an order at JR.com for both the tablet and dock. But then my amazon order updated, so I canceled by J&R order. But when talking to J&R on the phone, they said they expect to get docks in early May. Since BestBuy website also says Dock available in May, and it is already May, I would expect them to pop up soon all over the place.
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Yeah, I've had a pre-order with J&R since 4/26 for the dock as well. I am guessing 2nd week of May we start hearing about these little suckers trickling out. Hopefully I'll get mine soon since its one of the main reasons I got this tablet and am considering selling my ipad...

For the dutch/belgian people looking for a dock. I asked Asus Benelux and they expect the dockings in NL/BE to be available in July.
Anybody knows if they are already delivered in UK?

scion676 said:
Yeah, I've had a pre-order with J&R since 4/26 for the dock as well. I am guessing 2nd week of May we start hearing about these little suckers trickling out. Hopefully I'll get mine soon since its one of the main reasons I got this tablet and am considering selling my ipad...
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I also have a pre-order from J&R. Well, my pre-order consists of me walking 30 feet to J&R from work every day to check if it's in stock.

going insane waiting for the dock. but i'm really hesitant to preorder anywhere. i'd prefer best buy or amazon over anyplace else. but honestly probably going to end up preording someplace else if nothing happens at best buy/amazon in a week. can always cancel.

I just put a preorder in on B&H. Obviously no one is shipping these yet but hopefully in the next week or so we'll see some start going out. Now that I've finally got my tablet on the way, I guess it'll make waiting for the keyboard dock a little less stressful. Talk to me in a week though!

At this point I just want to get one on order, since nobody has recieved on in the US yet who do you guys think is the best bet for pre order?
~DC

There is someone on Ebay selling over 20 of the keyboard docks for $169 shippied with an ETA of May 13, that's not a bad price or delivery date. But wouldn't that indicate that availability for others should be around the same time?
I'm tempted to buy it.
~DC

DevCake said:
There is someone on Ebay selling over 20 of the keyboard docks for $169 shippied with an ETA of May 13, that's not a bad price or delivery date. But wouldn't that indicate that availability for others should be around the same time?
I'm tempted to buy it.
~DC
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it's actually excalliberpc. they charge $150+shipping on their real site so on ebay they're charging $170 with free shipping.

I have one preordered at fry's, lets see.

[INFO] Amazon.co.uk

Just received an e-mail from amazon.co.uk (where I preordered my eee pad)!
They expect to ship on may 12th!!!
Maybe Asus has shifted gears and now have production running

Lucky you! im told the start of June before shipping, tho my local comet has the non-dock/keyboard version in store with £20 discount. But id rather have the one with the keboard.

strange... i ordered mine today
and the estimated dispatchdate is may 6th
Dispatch estimate for these items: 6 May 2011
1 "Asus EeePad Transformer TF101 10.1 inch Tablet PC (nVidia Tegra2 1GHz, 1Gb, 16Gb eMMC, WLAN, BT 3.0, Android 3.0)"
Personal Computers; £376.81

I'm probably going to buy my Transformer from amazon.co.uk within a few weeks, but there's something I'm not quite sure about. Light bleeding issues seem to be rather common in Transformers, and if I get a faulty unit like this, will it be possible to get it replaced after opening the package? Thanks!
I live in Finland if that makes a difference.

It was nice to cancel the order just now

Mahmutti said:
I'm probably going to buy my Transformer from amazon.co.uk within a few weeks, but there's something I'm not quite sure about. Light bleeding issues seem to be rather common in Transformers, and if I get a faulty unit like this, will it be possible to get it replaced after opening the package? Thanks!
I live in Finland if that makes a difference.
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Warranty should be worldwide. At least europe is fully covered no matter where it was bought (in eu)

Wybo said:
strange... i ordered mine today
and the estimated dispatchdate is may 6th
Dispatch estimate for these items: 6 May 2011
1 "Asus EeePad Transformer TF101 10.1 inch Tablet PC (nVidia Tegra2 1GHz, 1Gb, 16Gb eMMC, WLAN, BT 3.0, Android 3.0)"
Personal Computers; £376.81
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I find this somewhat incredibly annoying. Why is Amazon taking new orders for the tablet when they have not serviced my order for the tablet + keyboard. Afaik the keyboard is completely separate to the tablet and arrives in its own box. They should be sending me my tablet now before taking new orders. It is an order with 2 items and both should be sent when they are available instead of waiting until both are available.

I cancelled my order with keyboard and order one without keyboard. I wonder if they really have one - there was "4 left in stock" written under the description.

you're right, it shows 'in stock' at the moment. However my keyboard combo is still expected to be dispatched on 31 may (ordered mine on 15 april)

I ordered the tablet+ keyboard est dispatch 1st june. Maby there is a shortage of keyboards, might just pick up the tablet and wait for the keyboard to be released tho is it guaranteed that it will be sold seperately.
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jambo89liam said:
tho is it guaranteed that it will be sold seperately.
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It will be. Some shops already advertise it. It will probably not be cheap though.

Surely just £50 I.e. the differene of buying the tab on its own and the tab+keyboard.
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FYI
Gents...just been to Currys/PCworld in London and they have it in stock! no pre=order nonsense...just grab one of the shelf!
ALso...amazon.co.uk are now showing the tablet on its own as IN STOCK!
I just got mine today form comet with the £20 discount! wuhoooo!

5hamz said:
FYI
Gents...just been to Currys/PCworld in London and they have it in stock! no pre=order nonsense...just grab one of the shelf!
ALso...amazon.co.uk are now showing the tablet on its own as IN STOCK!
I just got mine today form comet with the £20 discount! wuhoooo!
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Not in stock anymore on amazon.co.uk...
Now it shows: In stock on May 20, 2011.

Still have 'delivery estimate: 12 May 2011'
I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, dunno if that makes any difference?
Forgot to mention that I've ordered the version without keyboard, i'll pick up a scandinavian one when they start dropping.

I just bought mine from Comet with £19 discount, the version without the dock.

Well now... just received word that my order has been dispatched and should be arriving on the 10th of this month.
They must be getting new shipments of these atm.
Sorry for any typos. I have fat fingers, a 4" screen, a small child and a dictionary gone wild...

Preorder on bestbuy.com

Preorder page is updated on bestbuy.com now but it not quite functional yet. Looks like they're in the middle of adding the 4 sku numbers for 16/32gb grey/white.
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Has anyone tried to call and preorder. Tired of hitting refresh lmao

Does it ship internationally?

Yeah, and so much for the rumors that the price might be revised to compete with the Transformer. Fail for me.

Pre-Order just worked for me...Or at least it went through.

Link:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemp...008##0##4&list=y&usc=All+Categories&nrp=15&p=[promotion%2C+synonymns]&_D%3Ap=+&pu=defaultusr&_D%3Apu=+&pt=1308286801&iht=n&_DARGS=%2Fsite%2Fen_US%2Fsearch%2Ffragments%2Fincludes%2Folssearchparameters.jsp.frmSearchResults

Also available to preorder at Tigerdirect + a few accessories (keyboard dock and leather book case)

Preordered. Now we wait

Best Buy requires US credit card

No in store pickup option..... I would rather not wait for shipping if they're available on release day in store! what to do - what to do...

preordered from TD. With the TF they delivered on release day, so keeping my fingers crossed. Now to sell off the TF + dock!!

What the point to pre-order this when the est. arrival date is 06/17-06/24/2011
by that time other retailers will have it and Amazon will probably have it and ship next day for $4 more or 2 day Free Prime and no tax for me. Can't believe they don't include the MicroSD slot. I'd like to get one for the fun of it.

Amazon now have it up for pre-order. No mention of colour but images show it as the grey model. This is the green light for you guys outside the US!

It does not ship outside US
Product Details
Capacity: 16GB
Product Dimensions: 0.3 x 6.9 x 10.1 inches ; 1.2 pounds
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
ASIN: B00519RW1U
Item model number: GT-P7510MAYXAB
Date first available at Amazon.com: June 1, 2011
And yes, this model GT-P7510MAYXAB is the grey one.
frychiko said:
Amazon now have it up for pre-order. No mention of colour but images show it as the grey model. This is the green light for you guys outside the US!
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You have to use a forwarding / shipping service like BongoUS, shipitto, myus etc. Amazon is one of the few to play friendly with foreign credit cards and billing addresses.

On the german Amazon website the 3G modell can be preordered (black and white).
H.

Allright, I just registered with BongoUS ... Looks good from what I see and read.
frychiko said:
You have to use a forwarding / shipping service like BongoUS, shipitto, myus etc. Amazon is one of the few to play friendly with foreign credit cards and billing addresses.
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I want wifi only
I guess EU will come with 3G first, most probably ...
hmm1967 said:
On the german Amazon website the 3G modell can be preordered (black and white).
H.
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frychiko said:
Amazon now have it up for pre-order. No mention of colour but images show it as the grey model. This is the green light for you guys outside the US!
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It is the grey model on Amazon. You can tell by the Model #: GT-P7510MAVXAB. I looked on Best Buy website and it matches the grey model #. The MAY is the 16gb and the MAV is the 32gb in the model #.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...p=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960

Nothing on Amazon UK just yet.

Best place to buy transformer

So i want to buy the transformer today, and i was wondering where is the best place to buy? I am in the US, in IL, but because of the quality control issues, I want to be able to take it back if I have to. Also, price is an issue, as it seems to vary. A lot of places have it online, but do any stores carry it yet? As for online companies, they are ok, but it would be nice to at least have a store to return to if i need to..I guess another issue would be getting one of the newer models that might have fixed the power cord issues and some QC issues. I searched for an answer, but I didn't find anything really giving advice on where to buy, now that it is actually in stock in some places...thanks!

Amazon.com. Why pay sales tax? I'm in IL also so I share your pain of living in such a crappy state.

lol i hear ya...especially cook county...but amazon only has them for 453 right now? seems like the price keeps moving around...i have prime too so i would do it, but the extra 50 bucks kills it

Newegg.com
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For the in store pick up check your local Best Buy.

ya, newegg has always been decent for me...same price as everywhere else though..dang, i really wish amazon didn't have such a high price..and i checked my best buy...nothing anywhere near me...

el_brio said:
Amazon.com. Why pay sales tax? I'm in IL also so I share your pain of living in such a crappy state.
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Amazon charges sales tax here. Newegg does not.
Newegg for life. Build quality for my TF101 is perfect as well (first order)

Interesting...looks like the Frys electronics has it about a half hour from me...might check that out...
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I just noticed i have some sort of 10% off coupon on ebay? Has anyone used this? Looks legit...i see the tigerdirect deal for the 32 gb 474...do you guys think there are other reputable ebay sellers?

i am selling mine with extras
up for sale is an asus transformer 16gb with honeycomb 3.1.
comes with a skinomi screen protector not applied , asus official case and alot of goodies on the honeycomb, like games and programs
asking 415 shipped
transformer alone is 399 plus tax and shipping
case is 40 plus tax and shipping
skinomi skin protector is 20 plus tax and shipping
so i am selling it for a hell of a deal cause i need the money
heat is wolf1306
pm me if anyone is interested.

I seem to be having problems with my pms for some reason...i just sent you a message . Are you visioninc on ebay? cause i have a coupon for ebay so i might just use that for your listing. Few questions though...do you have light bleed at all and to what degree, or dead pixels? and do you have a receipt you could give me for the warranty? Why are you getting rid of it? thanks...

Amazon or Newegg for sure. No taxes and 30-day return/refund with no restocking fee!

I bought mine from Toys R Us on Wednesday for 399.99, plus they gave me a $25 dollar gift card that I used towards the purchase. I'm loving my Transformer so far! I just wish I could figure out how to Tether it with my Blackberry

I got mine in Fry's Burbank, CA. Have not run into any problems with it so far and have not seen and noticeable bleeding either.

Got mine at Newegg for $389 with no tax and free shipping by registering a new accounts and using the "newcustomer10" coupon. Not much of a savings but it was the best deal I could find until the TD one yesterday.
Newegg was also was willing to cross ship when I had to exchange my first Transformer due to some defects.

I bought my 32GB from Amazon. The 16GB was $50 more than the original price. I would recommend Best Buy.

Jace1792 said:
I bought my 32GB from Amazon. The 16GB was $50 more than the original price. I would recommend Best Buy.
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Amazon always sell at retail price. The over-retail must have been a 3rd-party seller.
And yes, Amazon are definitely the best place to buy from now that the shortage is over. Amazing customer service and 30-day hassle-free return.

Pisugtooq said:
Got mine at Newegg for $389 with no tax and free shipping by registering a new accounts and using the "newcustomer10" coupon. Not much of a savings but it was the best deal I could find until the TD one yesterday.
Newegg was also was willing to cross ship when I had to exchange my first Transformer due to some defects.
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Psugtooq, are you saying that Newegg sent you a replacement before they received the damaged one back???

I ended up going with newegg...good call on the new customer code...i used it also...amazon had the 16gb 50 over and it was direct through them...i know its not normal but it was so....newegg has been good in the past and I heard alot of crap about td and their shipping...plus it was through ebay too and that can get interesting...great price though
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ria_drizzt said:
Psugtooq, are you saying that Newegg sent you a replacement before they received the damaged one back???
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Yep. After I sent back the defective one, I went into live chat and politely asked that Newegg send out a replacement immediately as I didn't want to have to wait 2 weeks for them to process the RMA and issue an exchange. The rep told me to call their customer service 1-800 number and ask for an "advanced replacement." I did so and a replacement was sent out the next day with their standard 3 day shipping (arrived in 2). Their was no additional charge, just the stipulation that my CC will be charged if the original isn't received within 30 days.