starman9000

That's pretty much what I though. Would have been neat, but getting a non-dead Fire for a similar price will probably be better in the long run.

Palaver

Yea. Computer didn't help. Had one of the 16GB ones in my cart for nearly half an hour and couldn't get to the pay screen.

bahgee

for the 32GB, i was seeing over 1500 sold for each of the 3 listings if thats correct then they sold close to 5000. do they really have that many refurbs?

JTH182

Thanks, I feel a little better now

marginal

I had exactly the same problem as everyone here. Clicked "Buy It Now" within seconds of the auction start, took forever to get to the payment screen, and on the final Paypal confirmation screen... error. But I was reading the MASSIVE thread on another deals site (the one that is slick) and somebody said the eBay Canada site was working. So I just changed the ".com" in the link to ".ca" and sure enough, went through the whole purchase process much more smoothly.

It says I got one (16 GB), but I'm not going to believe anything until I see it in front of me.

Tarantino

at people who want HP Touchpads.

Deftones

really? really?

so having a cheap tablet to give to a kid to play with and to load movies on for car trips is laugh worthy? i guess i'll just consider the source.

Tarantino

Yes, it's laugh worthy to have a segment of people scrambling to get a tablet using dead technology just because it's cheap.

JTH182

at people whose lives are so sad they need to at strangers on the Internet.

Deftones

you obviously don't keep up on the news much, which is comical considering where you work. sure, HP aren't making hardware anymore, but WebOs is going open source. hardly dead. plus, it's super easy to put Android on there and the specs of the tablet aren't much different than several of the Android tablets out there right now.

but i'm sure you are just pissed off because the cameras on the touchpad aren't up to your standards so you can take all those pictures of yourself to post on the internet.

redrum

with webOS going open source, this has potential to be the tech deal of the decade

Tarantino

A picture dig! As always, so original.

I keep up on tech news. Android is buggy as hell on it and WebOS isn't going anywhere fast. Good luck on your search and hacking your precious $99 treasure.

SuperJim88

What would cause a person to click into a thread for an item that he has absolutely no interest just to laugh at the people who thinks otherwise? If this not the definition of threadcrap, I don't know what is. I've seen account getting locked up or suspended for less. Apparently Hot Deal is mod free.

The Cow

It's not actually.. I'm not going back from our iPad, but the Android OS is really solid, it's not buggy at all. It's crazy easy to put on and it works really well.

We have 2 that I picked up just because they were cheap and I deal with tech stuff to check out. Like I said, I prefer the iPad, but this one is decent. It's NOT buggy.

Deftones

Anyone else get a "were sorry you couldn't get an HP touchpad" email from ebay with a 10% off coupon?

Brent L

For those of you that got screwed trying to buy a TP on eBay, keep your eye on your email. They just sent me a freakin' $100 gift card to use on anything on eBay. The email reads as follows:

Woohoo!

Deftones

Seriously? all I got was a fucking 10% ebay coupon. Fucking lame

Brent L

It actually seems to be a PayPal gift card/credit. When I log into my PayPal account, under the balance it has the $100 listed. So, in theory, it looks like it can be used anywhere that takes PayPal.

And while I never got an order cancellation email, I never got an order through, it looks like I did however get charged by HP, only for it to be reversed within the same minute. How odd. Perhaps that is why those of us who didn't get any order in or any order cancellation email got the $100 anyway.

crankyman

actually, android is rock solid on the touchpad. it is listed as 'alpha' but i haven't found anything that doesn't work.

crankyman

dang! all i got was my shipping charges returned to me on the 2 that i received.