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Engadget is reporting that Sprint has sold out on their initial stock of EVO's for their stores and online, and likely BestBuy and The Shack.
Great news eh?
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Every store in Houston sold out within 15 minutes. I was able to convince a best buy employee to give me some poor other guys preorder...
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Every store in Houston sold out within 15 minutes. I was able to convince a best buy employee to give me some poor other guys preorder...
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you must have done some pretty serious convincing...
Checked the Sprint link...
Here was the message
"Sorry, this device is so hot we can't keep it on our virtual shelves.
Check back later - more are on their way!"
Man, I just ordered mine yesterday online and it arrived today (free overnight shipping) ...Phew, that was close!
i had called up 3 different sprint stores and this is what i was told
store 1: sold out, will get new shipment either friday or tuesday
store 2: sold out, taking deposit to reserve one (45 people already on list)
store 3: had few in stock (Silver Spring, MD)
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you must have done some pretty serious convincing...
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Not sure how I did it to be honest. I'm told I come across as very intimidating.. but I was in no way upset, and understanding of the shortage. Next thing I know I see him go to the locked closet...grab one out of the stack and peel someones name off of it..
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Not sure how I did it to be honest. I'm told I come across as very intimidating.. but I was in no way upset, and understanding of the shortage. Next thing I know I see him go to the locked closet...grab one out of the stack and peel someones name off of it..
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are you a new customer? maybe thats why
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697976
Radio shack is the only place in lower NH i could get on a pre-order list. Comes in Friday
Good thing I ordered mine Sunday.. i received it earlier today!
Here in Ohio no better, Went to best buy with my buddy, was quoted as Evo shippment tomorrow and now it's been moved to a nice lovely ambiguous "sometime from wednesday to friday" Here's hoping sooner rather than later but oh well. Here's hoping we can survive the great evo shortage of 2010! (*side note* kinda regretting not pre-ordering sooner, I was 8 people into the 2nd batch forcing me to wait an extra week. BAH!)
its good news, i just wished they had more accessories on launch day!
Decided to give in and pick one of these up yesterday. Couldnt find one in stock anywhere. This morning I was prepared to call every Radio Shack in the area. The 1st one I called said someone just took themselves off the list and that they had one available. I put my name on it, and picked it up 20 minutes later.
I have 2 friends that got theirs this same way. I did pre order one for my girlfriend though while I was there and she will be getting it on Friday.
I just got mine today and I had to call 8 or so sprint stores to find one in stock, ends up the store I got mine at had 10 in stock still from the first shipment and they had given a lot of their first order of 300 to other area stores. Once I got there it took them about 2 and a half hours to activate the flippin thing, my voice and 4g connected but my 3g never came up, took them forever to sort it out. They actually had to activate two evos to figure the problem out. I got 2 boxes and goodies out of the deal though, I am in the kc area too.
Which Sprint store was this? Im also in the KC area and have a few friends wondering if anyone has them in stock. Sounds like that store may be worth a shot.
argh its sold out online again!! I can't wait any longer!
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argh its sold out online again!! I can't wait any longer!
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i ordered mine online last night at 11pm central time and it was available waiting for it to come now ughhhh!!!!! all i have been doing is making lists of apps and what i want to try (been a windows mobile guy since the tilt days currently have a HTC Touch Pro 2 unlocked gotta sell that once my EVO comes in cant wait
Which Sprint store was this? Im also in the KC area and have a few friends wondering if anyone has them in stock. Sounds like that store may be worth a shot.
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I scooped mine up from the studio Sprint store, downtown in the power and light district, like 14th and grand, also I got a call from the Sprint store that I was on a waiting list at and they had one for me, i was number 15 I believe.
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I ordered mine online on the 7th, and it showed up UPS on the 9th. I couldn't have done better searching around. I say Sprint has come a long way.
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i ordered mine online last night at 11pm central time and it was available waiting for it to come now ughhhh!!!!! all i have been doing is making lists of apps and what i want to try (been a windows mobile guy since the tilt days currently have a HTC Touch Pro 2 unlocked gotta sell that once my EVO comes in cant wait
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I was going to order it online last night and then dumb me second guessed myself and decided to see if i could get lucky in a store today. Now I realize that was a very stupid idea.
how are some of you getting overnight delivery; i placed my order around 12pm PST yesterday and i still haven't received a delivery notification or any updates; it still says waiting in the warehouse for processing; this is annoying me since it's supposed to be overnight delivery
u too?
WTF?!
This is google's solution to lack of demand? Ok, let's hit a prime retail outlet and only give them 30 phones per store. Suuuuure. That's gonna work.
All u do is tick me off.
I can't even get an online order to process because it keeps erroring out through tmobile. Seriously?! WFF.
Lol you think 30 phones is bad? Because the majority of stores near me don't activate tmo they only had 4 and even showing up early I was the first in line to not get one. Caller me back because the guy in front of me didn't know that there's no 3g on att. Then the phone had a big screen defect. Luckily after BB computer wouldn't allow a return and having to drive 25 miles to a store that had one, the employee there figures out how to bypass it and get me a new one. So far perfect! Hang in there... went through 8 vibrants, four mt4gs and on my second nexus. You should just order it online, and save the hassle of having to deal with the store. Don't know why no one informed beat buy employees how to handle this phone.
Sorry didn't see you couldn't order
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The first Nexus fell on its face so this may have been a safety measure. Best Buy was a poor choice in my eyes since they are not a full tmobile supporter. I don't get why they got the exclusive over the carrier themselves.
ive waited a total of 10 hours or more on the phone (on hold) with bestbuy.
what's wrong with this picture?
I don't understand actually, I mean in Boston the store had only 4 devices. I one of the 4 who got one . Why don't Google throw more phones? overstock is better than no stock at all. Was it a rush to catch the holidays? It doesn't make sense either, because if you want to sell for the holidays you want to sell larger number than this.
Least we could grt rewardzone points!
I only waited in line for about 30 minutes at the Best Buy Mobile at the nearest mall to me and one other guy showed up right at open, and they had about 70 to sell... so iono why other stores are being so limited... odd.
My experience was way different. In a city of 100k+ I stopped in today and they had only sold one besides mine yesterday morning. Guy said they had 25000 ready to order. Best buy headquarters is only a few blocks away so maybe that contributes
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any posibility to get an unlocked device next week?
Just curious if it lived up to all the hype, or if the price poured water on the fire.
I waited in a line of 3 people... they had 10 xooms.
But oh man. Honeycomb is God. Google Music is sexy aswell
There was no line, but one other person showed up to get one while I was checking out shortly after they opened the doors.
So far, I really... really like it... more-so than I was expecting.
Everyone is impressed by Apple's lines for new Apple products, but those are most often picked up at Apple stores, of which there are a very limited number in most cities (often no more than one). I never expected much of a line for the Xoom, but the fact that it's available at so many locations really limits the ability to create those impressive snakes that make it on the news whenever the next iPhone launches. In other words, there's no go-to place to pick up the latest and greatest Android device.
But of course, Motorola so botched this launch, that I don't think the Xoom ever had a chance to really be huge.
Went to my local Verizon store. I was the only one in there buying a Xoom.
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I waited in a line of 3 people... they had 10 xooms.
But oh man. Honeycomb is God. Google Music is sexy aswell
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I suspect there is still no streaming your home music from home PC to device a la the tech Google acquired from SimplifyMedia? I am tired of using audiogalaxy. I need a streaming solution that differentiates between music and audiobooks.
In BB there was 4 of us picking ours up. In Verizon store no one had bought one yet.
My Best buy was practically empty. The salesman mentioned that someone else had already picked one up, but it was pretty damn quiet there.
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I was the first person and only person in line at 10:00am
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I was the first and only person buying at Costco at about 10:45am.
At the nearest corporate VZ store, I was told I was only the 2nd customer of the day purchasing a Xoom.
However, about an hour after I walked out of the store I got a call from a sales rep that had been reserving a unit for me; she said she was hanging on to the last one they had in the store.
Seeing as how I didn't see much demand, each store must have gotten very few for launch day. The store manager raved about the device though, he said that yesterday the Moto rep had come in to show them all the bells and whistles. The manager looked like a gadget geek, and he was oozing excitement about the tablet.
I called my Best Buy today and they still had the iPhone Verizon launch announcement, from last week.
I went in to demo it in the afternoon - a few people looked at it after me but I didn't see any major push for the device. It was in the laptop section and not very easy to find.
Only 2 at BB at 10am
There was only 2 of us picking up at 10 am. They only had 5 and were all sold day before. I think people are waiting to see what Ipad 2 has to offer.
My Best Buy had 3 sold within an hour of opening (including me).
My bestbuy had 10 of them when i got there..& i was the only 1 at that time picking up the Xoom..the sales guy told me another person had picked up 1 before me ..but he said that everybody had been coming in to see it.
I have three Verizon stores in *close* driving distance, one Apple store. There's not lines because Verizon has more stores. Not to mention Best Buys.
Apple's releases are initially mostly limited to Apple stores, so the get the lines, creates a look of more hype, etc. Apple's a genius at receiving customers to make more hype than there should be.
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At the verizon store I was told I was the third one of the day, around noon. They aren't pushing it, there weren't even signs up for it, still iphone stuff everywhere.
I got my pre-order call to pickup my Xoom, I left work drove 40 miles to my best buy and when I got there only to find they sold mine. I was ready to rip this guys off, he called around and found one a few miles away now I have one. Love it but typing this is vary laggy
there weren't any lines at the verizon store near me but their shipment sold out within an hour of opening. i went back later on around 7pm to pick up a case and they told me they shipped more over from another store and they sold those out within 30 minutes.
I was the only one in the VZ store picking one up and now I have to return it for the %25 off one coming from Moto.
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I got my pre-order call to pickup my Xoom, I left work drove 40 miles to my best buy and when I got there only to find they sold mine. I was ready to rip this guys off, he called around and found one a few miles away now I have one. Love it but typing this is vary laggy
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I noticed the same thing when posting here on XDA from the Xoom. On another forum, it is fast. Gmail, is also very fast. Seems to be something with XDA and the Xoom browser.
So, I was unsuccessful getting the Transformer from Amazon/Best Buy in the 3 minutes it was available online.
I went and "preordered" it at JR Music just in case (shipping was cheap, no tax for me since I'm in California) as a backup if I don't ever get one in store anywhere else.
Fry's online in-store check is actually pretty ok.
I kept checking every day. I'm in Southern California. I would see Anaheim have 1, then hours later, none, then City of Industry have one. Etc..etc.. First time I saw this was Tuesday night, I called and they "confirmed" they didn't have any.
Anyways starting Wednesday, whenever I see the Transformer "available" at a store, I went and ordered it for in store pickup (they don't ship from stores). You are required to put a credit card, but it's not charged.
Within minutes I'd get an email the Transformer IS NOT AVAILABLE.
Fast forward to today (Saturday 4/30) around 1am I check online and I see a different store (San Diego) has it in stock, this is the first time I seen the website show San Diego.
I go ahead and order it.
Come 9am I get an email saying my order is READY FOR PICKUP!
I go ahead and call them to make sure it is available and ON HOLD for ME, since I'm driving 2 HOURS to get to San Diego Fry's!!! Called up, she said she got 4 in that day and one is definitely set aside for my online order.
Get there around 1pm, went to register, and got it. I asked the lady if there were any extras and if there are if I could buy 1-2 more (1 for friend, 1 to sell). She came back and said no, all gone.
Anyways I'm happy. Ordered the official Sleeve from Newegg and it'll be a 1 day ship too (they're close by). Can't wait to buy the keyboard now!
There you have it. If you guys have a Fry's near by, keep checking their website for in-store availability. If you see it available, PLACE THE ORDER (I placed a total of 6 different orders). If it's not available, your order is cancelled. If it's available, you'll get notification for pick up! Hurry and get it otherwise they will cancel it. When you get there, you can pay however you like, don't have to use the CC you used for the online order.
The website doesn't always tell the truth. My store showed ZERO, but then I called, and they had 3. I had someone put it on hold for me. I'd call, or just go by, don't rely on the website!
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The website doesn't always tell the truth. My store showed ZERO, but then I called, and they had 3. I had someone put it on hold for me. I'd call, or just go by, don't rely on the website!
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Yeah I know, website is slow to update.
But personally I hate calling Fry's so website is the only option
Why I love the iPhone
I too have had a rough time getting the tablet. I started out placing an order with Datavision. They literally have the worst CS ever! Anyway, it said they were in stock and I went to check out and then it was out of stock. I called them to ask what happened and he said "Don't worry about it, its sold out anyway"-Thanks man .
Anyway I canceled it within a couple days. I kept checking everywhere. Finally got on newegg and put the damn thing in my cart and next thing you know they wouldnt let me checkout cuz it was already gone! I was so upset. I gave up! So i went to work on Friday and I was already having a good day so i thought i would just check amazon anyway...turns out there was a guy selling his transformer for $426 shipped and it was in "like-new condition". I neglected my work for a good 10 minuts and I just ordered it immediately! I didnt care that my boss was watching me shop online (i gave them my two week notice anyway... so suck it!). I was so freakin happy!
Then suddenly, my world came crashing down. The dudes account was "under review" because he was a first time seller on amazon. I was like NOOOOOO!!! So he couldnt accept my payment. I took a risk (sorta), i said to him, ill just paypal you the money! So i paypal'd him $420 and he shipped it using fedex 2-day delivery! so in the end...im getting it TUESDAY! im so excited i cannot wait! the best part of this whole thing...when i asked him why he is selling it....
i couldn't get it to tether with my iPhone!
i started laughing!
FINALLY, IPHONE, I HAVE A REASON TO LOVE YOU!!!
and thats my story
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So i went to work on Friday and I was already having a good day so i thought i would just check amazon anyway...turns out there was a guy selling his transformer for $426 shipped and it was in "like-new condition". I neglected my work for a good 10 minuts and I just ordered it immediately! I didnt care that my boss was watching me shop online (i gave them my two week notice anyway so suck it!). I was so freakin happy!
Then suddenly, my world came crashing down. The dudes account was "under review" because he was a first time seller on amazon. I was like NOOOOOO!!! So he couldnt accept my payment. I took a risk (sorta), i said to him, ill just paypal you the money! So i paypal'd him $420 and he shipped it using fedex 2-day delivery! so in the end...im getting it TUESDAY! im so excited i cannot wait! the best part of this whole thing...when i asked him why he is selling it....
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Hah, so that was you that bought it!
I saw that too, it was "used for 5 hours". I saw he was a first time seller too so I didn't go for it. Then a few hours later when I went to check Amazon, it was gone (You probably tried to buy it) lol.
Anyways glad you got yours from him and didn't get ripped off!
I just checked my Frys and they have it in stock! Although it doesn't say how many units they have in stock.
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I just checked my Frys and they have it in stock! Although it doesn't say how many units they have in stock.
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It may or may not be really in stock.
My suggestion, ORDER IT and just wait for a yes or no. If you're lucky it's' a yes.
They're closed right now so you won't get an answer till morning.
Downers Grove Fry's
As of 09:30 this am - they had 2 Docks and 3 16 GB Tablets.
Spent an hour at the store as they tried to locate them.
On sales person said that they did not have them for sure - I showed them on their site that they show poisitive inventory - manager looked it up and sure enough - 4 tablets and 3 keyboard/docks.
Picked up 1 of each - presents for my daughter.
wish there was a Frys in East Coast
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wish there was a Frys in East Coast
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There are 2 of them in metro Atlanta.
i walked it at 5:00 pm they had about 30 galaxy tabs of all flavors. I was the only one who ad bought one in two days. They were sold out of all ipads except 64gb Verizon models.
Who cares, to each their own. I drove all the way to Buffalo just to pick one up from Toronto. (First to get it in the Best Buy) haha.
Ipad will always sell more than the galaxy tab 10.1
Apple has perfect marketing.
So, you checked for 2 days or a BB sales man told you so?
When I read the topics here some BB's sales men don't even know they are selling Tabs
If anything the bee's are just really started making honeycomb.
A first proper start of Honeycomb tablet sales have started with the Asus Transformer. It's really picking up here in the Netherlands, most popular tablet on a big dutch site, where the Tab 10.1 has not been lauched.
I had to wander around a bit before finding the display (was set off on the other side of the Apple section, away from the other tablets/computers). Seems they were pretty popular though. They were out of both 32gb models and out of the white 16gb. Guy said I snagged the last Metallic 16gb (But of course whether he was just saying that is questionable). Down in Destin, FL so at least here in the white sands they are pretty popular.
there was a cage full of tabs and some sitting on the shelf. They had 30 tabs delivered a day late I counted 30. There were two guys arguing about purchasing a returned ipad2.
We have five Best Buys here in Jacksonville - all of them have the 10.1 in stock.. 32 and 16gb both colors.
iPad is definately more popular in my city.
Frankly like Sighx says, who cares. I'd rather question: send some to Europe asap
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Cool story, bro.
This isn't a whine - I'm patiently waiting to get one when they are in stock - but I'm just a bit amazed at how the situation is unfolding with BB.
No store anywhere in Silicon Valley (or in northern California for that matter) has ever received any 32GB versions (they all received a small batch of only one of the 2 16GB colors - the color varies by store), and most of them gave all of their initial stock of those 16GB versions to people who pre-ordered them (but there are a scant few still in stores). And now they are fielding questions right and left about not having any stock. I imagine they'll put up a recorded message before the phone menu any day now just like they do for the iPad availability. This isn't a case of a huge sellout on day one, they are all complaining that they only originally received a handful and they were only of one of the 2 16GB versions. And the SF store has some egg on its face (almost literally) with the huge window on the front of the store sporting an enormous banner that implies that "this is the place to get your Samsung Galaxy Tab!" (or maybe not)... ;-)
And you could walk into any Microcenter or Frys in the area and get the flavor you wanted for at least 2 days (and some within 40 miles still have stock in most of the models even today) and they didn't need a big banner to advertise their stock (or lack thereof). Wasn't BB the launch partner with the special exclusive one week deal for NY - why is that the only store I can't get the right model in?
Between the huge number of (unfilled) preorders here and the number of phone calls they are getting currently and the fact that this is one of the seats of the computer industry in the country, you'd have thought they'd send at least one single 32GB version to some store here somewhere? But, no.
Wow, talk about missing the boat. Who at BB corporate managed to mess up the distribution this badly? At least I believe that the majority of tablet users are clear enough on what they want that they'll wait for it and the bad distribution choices won't really cost them a huge opportunity in the end, but if they didn't have enough to go around and they sent them mainly to places that don't know how to market them rather than one of the few places you know they'd walk off the shelves without any help from the sales staff (or the now tragically ironic huge banners) - that wasn't a complicated decision, no?
I'm waiting it out. I have a Xoom in the meantime whose days are numbered, but I'm waiting to take advantage of some rewardzone certificates at BB when someone eventually wakes up and sends some 32GB versions to the NoCal stores. Giggling a little, but with a frown.
Sales will be lukewarm at best. You need price point and ad money to sell things. Verizon saved android from a slow death in the phone market with its Droid campaign. Unless someone pumps serious money into tablet ads they'll continue to flounder. Outside of BB posters Noone has a clue what a galaxy tab is nor will they unless Samsung pushes hard.
Superior products don't equal better sales we all know that.
I had one on pre-order with BB but it was back ordered. I did a search and my local store had the 32g in stock. I picked it up and everything is working great. All I would like to see is more streaming capability
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Sales will be lukewarm at best. You need price point and ad money to sell things. Verizon saved android from a slow death in the phone market with its Droid campaign. Unless someone pumps serious money into tablet ads they'll continue to flounder. Outside of BB posters Noone has a clue what a galaxy tab is nor will they unless Samsung pushes hard.
Superior products don't equal better sales we all know that.
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Well, in my Best Buy they are mostly morons, with a few cretins and idiots thrown in for good measure! I went in to buy a 10.1 Tab (already own the 7) and asked if they had any - one BB salesdrone said maybe but none on display. I said "do you know this is Father's Day and your website says their in stock- the drone just shrugged - I asked another if they expected someone to lay down $600 site unseen - same reaction.
Is it any wonder BB sales were down 16% last quarter?
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Well, in my Best Buy they are mostly morons, with a few cretins and idiots thrown in for good measure! I went in to buy a 10.1 Tab (already own the 7) and asked if they had any - one BB salesdrone said maybe but none on display. I said "do you know this is Father's Day and your website says their in stock- the drone just shrugged - I asked another if they expected someone to lay down $600 site unseen - same reaction.
Is it any wonder BB sales were down 16% last quarter?
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That, and they charge $20 for one SATA cable. No sympathy from me when they die.
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i walked it at 5:00 pm they had about 30 galaxy tabs of all flavors. I was the only one who ad bought one in two days. They were sold out of all ipads except 64gb Verizon models.
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It all depends where you located I guess.
Here in NYC it's been selling like cupcakes according to the sales guys and personal observation. When I went to pick mine up a couple asked me if it was an ipad2, after seeing it wasn't they were next in line to get it.
After I discovered a flaw with the screen and went to exchange it in a Brooklyn's best buy there were three other interested costumers.
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Mabye it has something to do with this tablet having more lag than a hippo springing in molasses. I can't type on this thing because it lags so hard. I am going to hold on to it because I hate ios but it really sucks.
Best buy showed stock but turned out they were sold out. They were willing to pricematch to match no tax on Amazon if I would preorder through them
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Best buy showed stock but turned out they were sold out. They were willing to pricematch to match no tax on Amazon if I would preorder through them
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Went to a couple of BB in NY.
One of them (Houston in the Village/ Soho) I asked about the tab and they said ' we have it but we didn't put it out'. I asked why, the guy had no clue.
They have zero accessories.
Went to the one on 6th ave and 23rd st (very big store). First BB employee said 'Yes we have it don't move I will be right back'. She never came back.
Second one said "accessories are there" pointing to the Xoom. I told her that's the Xoom, she said well that's all its left.
To make a long story short, I found the Tab and the accessories myself.
This is just to tell you that if BB employees tell you something it's usually 99% INACCURATE. Ask at least 5 different employees, or even better, do your own research in the store and you will find what you are looking for.
Fact is the average Joe wanting a tablet will just go ipad. It is easy well made tons of apps. Samsung is offering a nice alternative but without any real differentiation. No built-in expansion. No keyboard dock liked the Asus. Price point is no better than the ipad. Honeycomb is not mature enough yet to steal potential ipad buyers so one needs some extra hardware goodies line USB port or dock or HDMI and importantly better price point.
Sell Samsung at 449 and then people start to consider it. Make it 399-429$ and many will pass on the ipad.
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Went to a couple of BB in NY.
One of them (Houston in the Village/ Soho) I asked about the tab and they said ' we have it but we didn't put it out'. I asked why, the guy had no clue.
They have zero accessories.
Went to the one on 6th ave and 23rd st (very big store). First BB employee said 'Yes we have it don't move I will be right back'. She never came back.
Second one said "accessories are there" pointing to the Xoom. I told her that's the Xoom, she said well that's all its left.
To make a long story short, I found the Tab and the accessories myself.
This is just to tell you that if BB employees tell you something it's usually 99% INACCURATE. Ask at least 5 different employees, or even better, do your own research in the store and you will find what you are looking for.
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You are very right. Salesmen told me it was instock. Then not, sold me hard on getting a pre-order. Promised to match price to amazon, 500 otd. Another girl rings up preorder, rings at full price. Leave store with promise it will be corrected upon pickup. Pulling up at the house, receive e-mail saying Tab ready to pick up.
Fail. Then had to wait on hold for 30 minutes to verify this was correct before I head back over.