HP TouchPad suck

[truthless86]

That's been far and away the most common reason for people to call in to my store these last few days as well. I'm thinking about bringing a trained parrot in to sit at the counter in my department and answer the phones. Something about that stereotypical parrot-speaky way of saying "*AWK!* No more touchpads! No more touchpads! *whistle*" just seems like the right way to approach it.

[mhkohne]

I didn't hear about this until too late either. But of course my reaction was just to say 'ah well' and get on with my life, not make some poor sales person's life a living hell.

[mattm04]

I know SlickDeals, amongst other was updated frequently with the status of various stores.

I eventually snagged one (hopefully), but once it was revealed that a online retailer had some, their website was either completely crashed and inaccessible or kept throwing errors and timed out. I know MacMall/PCMall were down for several hours.

[MustangErin]

We have been dealing with the HP fiasco. It has been ok for me since I am not on the sales floor but I still get asked when I am out there. We removed our demos yesterday so whenever someone asks if we are getting more I just say nope, and we even removed our demos.

[Clover]

Thankfully, I was away at a PRIDE meeting for the Big Yellow Price Tag, so I didn't have to deal with the SCs (or the surprise shipment).

DUDE. Your name is exactly the same as my dad's! But I know you're not him because he hates HP with a passion after how they treated some guy in the military, so he'd never work for them. XD

[Mike Taylor]

Thankfully, I was away at a PRIDE meeting for the Big Yellow Price Tag, so I didn't have to deal with the SCs (or the surprise shipment).

[ShootMePlease]

As many of you know, HP had discontinued manufacturing the HP TouchPad and decided to sell them for a ridiculous $99 for a 16GB and $150 for a 32GB.

My employer (The Buy of Best) decided to sell what we had left last Saturday. No big deal, a lot of folks came in at the right time and picked one up. Some of us employees picked them up, too (awesome deal !!)

Anywhoo, some folks were not aware of the situation until Monday. Which has led to hundreds of phone calls and walk-ins asking about it. We honestly thought we were done with them. Until we got a surprise shipment today.

I still don't know how that many people found out in such a short period of time, but hundreds of folks showed up out of nowhere for these things. I had already grown weary today, as I had 10 people bombard me within 20 minutes of opening about them. At least 5 of them were nasty, pushy and belligerent. As if I could shit them out of my ass for them. Some of the folks that came in when we had them were assholes too, trying to buy more than one or yelling at us about how many were left because they were waiting for someone else to come. Well, tough shit. Cry me a fucking river.

I'm sure we won't get any in again. It will be my pleasure to relay the information.