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HP TouchPad goes on sale for $250… for a few minutes

10/03/2011 at 1:56 PM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

This morning HP was offering the HP TouchPad tablet with 32GB of storage for $249.99. The sale was spotted by a member of the PreCentral forums, but the tablet is no longer available for purchase.

HP TouchPad for $250

There are two interesting points to this story:

  1. It could indicate that HP has a few more tablets in stock and is prepared to sell them again (although maybe they’ve already sold out).
  2. The $250 price is kind of unexpected and it could be a sign of things to come.

When HP first launched the TouchPad table tin July the company charged $499 for a 16GB model and $599 for a 32GB version. By those standards, $250 is an excellent price. But in August HP canceled the TouchPad and started selling off all remaining inventory for $149 or less. When you look at it that way, it looks like the tablet was selling for a $100 premium this morning.

The company sold out of $99 and $149 TouchPad tablets almost as soon as the new prices took effect. But in August HP explained that there would be one more shipment of tablets before they were gone for good.

HP employees have already had a chance to purchase some of the TouchPad tablets from that last batch, and any day now we might see more tablets go on sale to the general public. They’re expected to sell for $99 to $149. But this morning’s sale could be a sign that HP is experimenting with alternate prices… or it could just be some sort of a typo or other glitch in the system.

Still, I have to wonder what would have happened if HP had decided to set the fire sale prices at $200 for a 16GB tablet and $250 for a 32GB tablet from the get go. They probably wouldn’t have flown off the shelves quite as quickly, but those are still some pretty amazing prices for a tablet with a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display, 1.2 GHz Qualcomm dual core processor, a good web browser, and decent multimedia capabilities. I suspect HP still would have sold a lot of tablets at this price.

And maybe HP still could. While it’s pretty clear the company was losing money by selling tablets for $99, it’s certainly possible to build a decent tablet for around $200. Perhaps HP could pull an Amazon and sell the TouchPad for about the same price it takes to build one and attempt to make up the revenue through commissions on app sales, movie rentals, and music sales. It would certainly be one strategy for gaining market share — although it’s not entirely clear whether it would be a profitable strategy.

Still, HP has already thrown out the CEO that was at the helm when the company decided to discontinue the TouchPad, so it’s not quite too late to resurrect the tablet.

Of course, it’s possible that a fair number of the people who picked up TouchPads at fire sale prices only did so because they’re hoping to wipe the webOS operating system and replace it with Google Android.

There’s also a rumor going around that Amazon may be interested in buying webOS from HP… in which case it’d be unlikely to see the TouchPad make a comeback.

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$250 seemed to be about the amount people where getting on Ebay for them, last time I looked.

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…glad I got one for 100 while the gettin’ was good 🙂

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I paid $250 for mine, but i got the later UK released 64GB model with 1.5 ghz processor.  So I was good with the price.  I’d buy another for a family member.  It actually is a pretty intuitive UI; looking at reviews and such, I thought it would be confusing to family members.  I was wrong.  I hope Web OS manages to come out on better hardware.  It would make all the difference in the world; although it may be too little, too late.

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no, what the op meant is they paid 250 for the 64gb 1.5gz model that was never available here. When it was released in France, they charged around 900 bucks for it. I didnt get a great deal, but i only paid 300 for mine plus 20 bucks shipping. they are going for about 500 on ebay. this morning one person had 10 of them for sale for only 375… bet they didnt last long..

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250 , nope i get it for 100 , looser

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I think they are definitely testing to see if they can sell it for $200/$250.  That’s much better than $99/$149.  Judging by how fast it sells out I think they can.  I wish they had sold it for $200/$250 initially.

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250? I want the 100 16gig back, if it doesnt come back it wont sell as many. The whole purpose of a fire sale is to overload your product with customers. This is just a sale.:/ Not buying, ill save up and buy the ipad which is NOT discontinued.

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