HP TouchPad suck

[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.

[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).

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[the_std]

We've been dealing with it as well, and I shouldn't be surprised. People will always buy something that is a "good deal", even though the Touchpads are near to useless in Canada. HP doesn't distribute its smartphones in Canada, therefore no tethering, therefore no access to the majority of the advanced apps and features that make the Touchpad anywhere close to worth... Anything. Yet we were bombarded with calls and walk-ins, as well as the prerequisite pushy people who come out of the woodwork when things are cheap. Luckily, they're all gone now and we won't have to deal with them anymore, but really, it was just a stupid situation all around. I say, boo to you, HP. Boo to you.

[Teskeria]

Ahh! That explains yesterday's Full Frontal Nerdity strip.

[Andara Bledin]

HP's bowing out of the PC business, though they're reporting that they'll make more Touchpads available. Likely to clear out their stock on components and recoup what they can before the division gets bought up by some other corporation.

^-.-^

[Enjis]

My hubby wanted to get one because it can be used as an e-book reader...and is cheaper than the other book readers on the market. Sadly, we did not get one, tho he haunted all the sites that normally would carry them.
He certainly wouldn't get sucky when a salesperson told him they were out...he'd just move on to another site...

[truthless86]

What I found somewhat humorous on this was the timing of everything. It was only about 3 weeks ago at my store, we had our area HP guy in the store, making sure we had our display units up and running, and giving us the whole shpeal about why these HP touchpads are so great. Guess HP kept news on everything on a "need to know" basis until the very end, or I'm sure the rep wouldn't have bothered taking an hour with half of my department to fill us in on everything their "awesome" machines could do.

[Ironclad Alibi]

HP's bowing out of the PC business ...

I hate to hear that. I like HP computers. I have three of them, two desktops and a laptop. Now I'll have to find another company that makes reliable computers, or go back to making my own. I hope HP keeps making printers and scanners.

[DeltaSierra]

Alas, I was out of town camping so I didn't hear about the deal until too late. I'd have loved to have gotten one.

[Geek King]

I hate to hear that. I like HP computers. I have three of them, two desktops and a laptop. Now I'll have to find another company that makes reliable computers, or go back to making my own. I hope HP keeps making printers and scanners.

I'm not so sure about the reliable bit. My workplace has a slew of HPs. The older ones are still chugging along, but the 25 I loaded up as my first bit of work here are all having Issues. For instance, only about a half dozen still have working CD/DVD drives. All died with the same symptoms: Drive light stays on, will not access disks.

Not really damning, but a big hint something wasn't up to par with those PCs.