Saturday, March 19, 2011

03.19.2011 - The 3rd time was not the charm (an ipad2 saga)

Been trying to purchase an ipad2 (came out 3/11/2011), but not having much luck.  Apple stores are opening an hour early (9am) and getting daily shipments (# of ipad2's unknown), but it appears  the demand is greatly higher than supply and each day that I try to get the ipad2, I fail.  Today I got to the Valley Fair mall about 10 minutes before 9am, but the line was already some 100 long.  And by 9:10 am or so, an Apple associate came out and said 'sorry, we are all sold out, try again tomorrow, same deal. first come first serve'.  The shipment today was only 50 ipads2.  No clue how many tomorrow's shipment will be.  Clearly an Apple conspiracy to keep demand higher than reality, or truly supply issues?  I'm afraid we'll never know.  The question is only whether I choose to bring a sleeping bag/camping chair tomorrow morning to wait in line.

Apparently Target has them as well, but are also out of stock. This page has links that allows you to check whether a store has a certain model in stock.

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