HP Touchpad (Refurbished) E-bay "firesale" 16GB $99, 32GB $149, Sun. 12/11 @"approx" 6PM CST (7PM EST) at hp's ebay store!

So..
Missed out on the August "Firesale" of the HP Touchpads that HP had?

Well, here is another chance to get in on the 16GB and 32GB. Both are priced the same: 16GB = $99, 32GB = $149..but note they are "refurbished", and will be sold at HP's eBay store. Look's like HP want's to clear out their final stock.

**But, they are giving their employee's first dibs...

When: Sunday, December 11, 2011
Where: ebay.com - HP's Ebay store
Time: At "approximately" on or "around" 6:00 PM CST (7:00 PM EST) - HP Employee's have first dibs on the sale - at that time.."

From techcrunch.com:
HP Is Reviving The $99 TouchPad Firesale! Refurb Models To Hit HP’s Ebay Store On 12/11
Get your clicking fingers ready! These boys are going to go fast.

In an effort to give HP employees first chance at a very limited supply of refurbished TouchPads, there will be a short delay between when the product is posted live for sale on eBay and when the general public is notified of the sale.​

To: U.S. HP Employees
•HP employees will have a chance to purchase a refurbished HP TouchPad via eBay before the sale is announced to the general public. Specifically, the TouchPads will be offered through one of HP’s newest marketplaces for close-out and refurbished HP products, the new HP eBay Store.
•This product will NOT be available through any other HP stores, such as the Home & Home Office store, Small & Medium Business store, HP EPP or the HP Business Outlet. PLEASE DO NOT CALL ANY OF THESE CALL CENTERS BECAUSE IT DISRUPTS REGULAR SALES ACTIVITIES AND THEY’RE UNABLE TO PROCESS AN ORDER FOR THE TOUCHPADS ANYWAY.
•In an effort to give HP employees first chance at a very limited supply of refurbished TouchPads, there will be a short delay between when the product is posted live for sale on eBay and when the general public is notified of the sale.
•Refurbished HP TouchPads, both 16GB and 32GB versions, will be posted for sale through the HP eBay store at: 6:00 p.m. (Central Time), Sunday, December 11th. If you are interested in purchasing a refurbished TouchPad, please make yourself a reminder to log-on to eBay a few minutes before the sale starts to make your purchase.
•The TouchPads will be available for sale here ( under “Laptops”):
items in hewlettpackard store on eBay!
Important information about this sale:
• There will be both 16GB and 32GB versions available, selling at a fixed price of $99 and $149 respectively…while supplies last.
•There is also an optional 3-piece Accessory bundle with a Case, Charging Dock & Wireless Keyboard for $79 (est. value $199.97).
• Purchases must be made through the HP eBay store via PayPal only. If you do not have eBay or PayPal accounts, create your accounts before the sale begins to avoid delays.
•The product offer will be announced to the general public on Monday morning and is expected to sell-out quickly thereafter, so don’t delay.
• There will be a limit of two (2) TouchPad SKUs per eBay member, sold on a first come, first served basis.
•This sale is not associated with any HP-sponsored employee purchase program and there are no additional discounts for HP employees off the HP eBay store price.
• All sales are final. There are no returns unless product arrives defective.
•The r efurbished TouchPad product comes with a 90-day limited warranty.
•Please note that eBay orders only allow one ship-to location per order.
Thank you for your cooperation, good luck to you and don’t forget to mark your calendars for 6:00 p.m. (Central Time), Sunday, December 11th.
Best regards,
​

Also, Engadget Article: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/08/...e-sale-this-weekend-because-it/#disqus_thread

I have a refurbished Nook Color that I rooted into a Android tablet and have no issues with a refurbd' product. I also have a 32GB HP Touchpad, and I wouldn't hesitate to purchase a refurbished one, these are very nice tablets in my own opinion.

 

I suspect that many will be jumping on this, the TouchPad is a great tablet.

 

WebOS has been open sourced as well by HP so this will help build their userbase. Good deal.

 

What size screens do they have?

 

If I am awake I plan to try and snap up one of the 16GB ones and toy around with it. If I find I have no real use for it I am sure I can resell it easy for what I paid.

Not sure if I will go Android or WebOS with it.

 

I have used my 32GB HP Touchpad roughly around 10 times. I don't have any interest in using it for Android since I already have two Android Tablets. If I had to do it over again I would not have purchased it.

 

It really is a good tablet, I use it quite it a bit. Getting the Slashtop Remote app' when it was a free app' w/code was one of my fav apps!

Here is their release on it:
HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

9.7", 1024×768 res.

I haven't rooted to CM7 yet, since I have that on my Nook Color. I actually like WebOS and will continue using it on my Touchpad til I decide to switch to CM7.

And, yes there are still plenty of people out there looking to buy the Touchpad whether it be brand new or refurb. So, I am fairly certain that if you were to purchase and decide to sell you would get a decent price for it.

 

it's up right now...but at full price.

Not sure what gives...

 

yep, full price for me too. hm.

 

A lot of people still purchased them, even though HP changed return status from "returns available" to "returns not available".

Will not risk it.

 

Ya um 499 for the 16gb and 599 for the 32gb...

Edit: nevermind take that back didn't realize 7pm EST! But it is impossible to get one, all I see is the number sold constantly going up and whenever i try it times out or some other excuse.

 

Yeah I noticed that too, 8 people purchased the 32GB Tablet at $599. Numpties is all I got to say.

 

33...

I guess they are employees and there's a code they have to cheapen it...

 

The sale hasn't started yet. Try reading the title...

 

eBAY chrashed...

 

Yeah, I'm stuck at the "Enter quantity you want to buy" screen.

 

gah i almost got some then ebay crashed for me too

 

$19 shipping and tax with a 90 day warranty? I'll pass. It won't be too long before Android tablets are selling for this.

 

Lame

 

What about purchasing the 16gb thru ebay.ca?
HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16GB Refurbished | FB355UAR#ABA | eBay

 

You kidding? What do you think we've been trying to do for the last 20 minutes...

 

that was stupid. 20 minutes of eBay getting the ddos, followed by the thing being sold out.

 

Actually, kidding no. Trying to be helpful..yes. How the heck would I know "you've" been trying to get it from the Canada site for the last farking 20 minutes..? (I'm a mind reader, that's it). Oh wait, you've been trying since 6pm EST.

 

Aww Son of a....

I should have known .ca would have been better

 

I was there way early all ready to go. Had one in cart even and saw the $99 price but never got past my cart.

Just 1.01 error or what ever it was.

By the time I got word of the ebay.ca trick they were sold out.

I had to go to ebay .ca and manually search the item to add it to my cart and it was "not available" just trying everything I quickly tried the item numbers for the 32GB.

First one did not work, but the 2nd one did.

In the moment of things and being extremely sleepy I bought it. I didn't really want to buy the 32GB as I wont need that much space and thats near 50% increase in cost.

Oh well I will play with it, and if it sucks I will sell it for most if not all I paid for it I hope.

Knowing my luck some much better tablets will be out soon that make this one crap and sell for $300 destroying all resell value.

 

Only 2316 items and ebay turds out on us, couldn't get past quantity page...and if i did it was for an error ...oh well

 

Now I have about 1.3 hours till work with no sleep today... oh what to do

Power nap or stay up...

 

I can't get the 32 GB to work either.

 

Wow, that was hard.

I managed to get one 32GB from ebay.co.uk...

 

wow... I've never seen ebay break like it just did....

 

.ca / co uk doesn't matter... doesn't work for me... still trying

they're probably about to run out too... this sucks.

 

Well there were 10,000 people just on the deals thread @ slickdeals trying to do this. Who knows how many thousands more not on that site.

For next time I know, use alternate ebay to pay

I had no idea you can do that, also mobile apps apparently may work better.

lol I cant even load slickdeals now, I think they may have crashed as well.

 

Doesn't seem to help

 

Here is what I got and looks like its still there:

HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32GB Refurbished | FB359UAR#ABA | eBay

 

just errors when i hit the buy button

 

Still working for me, keep trying

 

i got to checkout, then it failed.

that was one of the stupidest experiences I've ever had. I'm glad I don't participate in black friday at retail stores. I imagine it would be similar.

 

Well Black Friday includes pepper spray, punching, bumper cars in the parking lot, a lot of standing and occasional death.

So even if you come up nil I think it was still not as bad as BF

Since I did have to get the 32GB model ill make this my on the go media center, lots of music & movies.

So that means I will probably be making some tutorials on how to encode movies for optimal playback on the tablet

Course I will hack mine to play .mkv and formats I prefer more than the traditional .mp4

 

Just sell it to me already!!! MAUAHAHAHA!!!!

But seriously, sell it to me for $200?

 

got a 32GB one thank god. Black Friday couldnt be worse if they sell online like this. The shipping and tax make it $179 total.

 

Dammit I wasn't available to camp the site yesterday.

 

So glad they were sold out of these before I noticed this, otherwise my wallet would probably be much lighter right now... and I'm not sure I even have a use for one

 

You aren't missing much and I rarely use my TP.

 

Mine is due in Thursday.

I would never use a TP for productivity purposes, PC or Laptop all the way. However I think it will fit the gap between the two where I want only entertainment.

Music, Movies, Games, and just overall toy with it device

Good for places/situations that I could not easily take my laptop and set it up. A good smartphone is still a good fit for that for just one person but with having kids and all I think the larger screen is going to be a real benefit.