[TouchPad Development] telec378:
the story of" best "buy

this is what I got from a friend who works at best buy.

a night before they hid all the touchpads bb US stores were getting calls from people, asking about pricing on them. my friend said that she was sort of freaking out from answering the same question over the phone. "our prices are the same as they were before, and we do not price match BB in Canada"

so it was already on bestbuy.ca for sale + hp.com had it for sale too.

on the next day, people rushed to BB stores in the US to get one, and each store told the same story. "we SENT them ALL back to HP".

it isn't physically possible for each store to get a truck, load them on to ship them back to hp overnight. plus it is very costly to do that as well. later on at 5:30 the corporate called the stores and told them to sell touchpads... so it means that they were simply sitting in the back somewhere, and BB lied to their customers! after 5pm all of them sold super fast, and the smart people who went to shop in the morning ended up losing to those lazy shoppers who just showed up by 5pm. well, that sucks fro those who missed their tablet. I simply kept on checking on our local best buy, and finally got what I was hoping for - my 32gb touchpad was purchased at 6:15pm :) yesterday.

so I called my friends about it, but only a few of them made it on time. RIGHT before the store closed, I asked the sales people if they have any left, and called other stores as well. There were rumors about morning sales, so that's what I checked on. I called 4 stores 10 minutes before they closed, and asked in person at the local bb about morning sales. "1st come, 1st served" basis was the plan. so here's the thing. my and his brothers were the 1st in line at the same store next morning, his brother's gf went to another best buy, and she was 3rd in line. each store said to have 10-15 tablets in stock in the morning, but these people in line were told by whoever opened the store, that hp tablets are no longer being sold!!! "sold out" was their excuse. HOW??? one other impossible thing/lie. how is is possible to have 10-15 of them 5 minutes before they closed the store (weren't willing to sell them, kept them for the morning), and not have them 20 seconds after the store's open on the next day?!!! come on! they lied again. I don't know when they lied this time. they probably lied before they closed, probably when they opened the next morning. who knows, but the story was the same throughout each store. so my friend called the store which his gf went to, and they said that they JUST sold them in like 2 minutes (19tablets). his gf says that somebody told them that they didn't have any, and she also said that nobody was even selling them at that store! she was told the same msg as my friend who went to a different BB. so that is another lie! also I called and asked, and I was told that the remainder was sent back to HP... FOR WHAT?! they sold hundreds of them nation wide, and then shipped 19 back to HP?... and they lied to ppl too, ro what THIS is a lie now too?

WHAT THE FUN IS GOING ON AT BEST BUY?! Is misinforming allowed? btw when everybody went to get a tablet on the day when BB "sent them to HP" the 1st time, you couldn't even find these items on bestbuy.com! now they're up again with a msg "sold out online". the manager at the local store that I luckily got my tablet from said that they're out of stock at the moment...

AT THE MOMENT? So you will have them again later? what is going on?! I'd buy more for my young sisters, but I can't :(