Wow Such BS How does Amazon put a lightning deal on this Acer Iconia A500 and have none available when it goes on sale? I was here right when it went to 0:00 and says waitlist full? Come on, I think this is crap. Wow Such BS How does Amazon put a lightning deal on this Acer Iconia A500 and have none available when it goes on sale? I was here right when it went to 0:00 and says waitlist full? Come on, I... » Read More Wow Such BS How does Amazon put a lightning deal on this Acer Iconia A500 and have none available when it goes on sale? I was here right when it went to 0:00 and says waitlist full? Come on, I think this is crap. « Show Less
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You're absolutely right. I was right there with you and I had the same garbage happen to me. It's ridiculous to think they only had a handful of these tablets available for thousands of people.
822408
WTF Amazon. There was no deal or on sale. You just post something you have in stock and a price you are not willing to sell. Stop all these BS. We are not naive buyers. Save your stupid tricks and pay some respect to your customers.
822409
+1. I waited diligently for the Lightning Deal, clicked "Add to Cart" the second it popped up. It sat there "getting deal info" for a few seconds, then went to a grayed out "Waitlist full". I don't go on amazon to gamble with my time. This is a bs gimmick.
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299 is a steal for this product and it would not shock me if they had a few hundred on hand but had thousands try for it. I paid 299 refurbed, and had to pay 10 sh and tax. Grabbed another a month ago here when they dipped to 350 new. Congrats to anyone who bought this today, you will enjoy it. The roocase for this works great as a case.
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i was actually able to get one @ 299, checkout ok but still not yet shipped.
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I got one and put in cart and bought in 30 seconds. I'm sure if you and I were clicking there were hundreds of people across the country doing the same thing. Sorry you missed out, but I believe Tiger Direct/Circuit City has them at the same price. Good luck to you......
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Not a major deal for me, since I didn't pay anything for shipping and I grabbed this for the discount rather than any pressing need for storage. I'm now starting to wonder since it's been a few days and this still hasn't shipped. Seems like Amazon must have oversold this item when they made this a gold box special. Which is weird since they normally limit the number of items sold at the deal price to prevent this from happening. If you paid for expedited shipping it might be worthwhile to contact Amazon to see if you can get a refund for shipping without canceling your order. I don't know if they'd do it or not but it seems like a reasonable request for something that's been unexpectedly put on back order. Not a major deal for me, since I didn't pay anything for shipping and I grabbed this for the discount rather than any pressing need for storage. I'm now starting to wonder since it's been a few days and this still hasn't shipped. Seems like Amazon must have oversold this item when they made this a gold box special. Which is weird since they normally limit the number of items sold at the deal price to prevent this from happening. If you paid for expedited shipping it might be worthwhile to contact Amazon to see if you can get a refund for shipping without canceling your order. I... » Read More Not a major deal for me, since I didn't pay anything for shipping and I grabbed this for the discount rather than any pressing need for storage. I'm now starting to wonder since it's been a few days and this still hasn't shipped. Seems like Amazon must have oversold this item when they made this a gold box special. Which is weird since they normally limit the number of items sold at the deal price to prevent this from happening. If you paid for expedited shipping it might be worthwhile to contact Amazon to see if you can get a refund for shipping without canceling your order. I don't know if they'd do it or not but it seems like a reasonable request for something that's been unexpectedly put on back order. « Show Less
96791
yup, i guess they increased the price since its only newegg and amazon that has this laptop, plus amazon takes "2 to 4 weeks" to ship, so newegg took that as an opportunity to make some extra profit ( bastards)i cant afford to wait that long tho :(amazon might end up getting my extra $50... sigh...although... a friend of mine placed an order for this laptop from amazon... two weeks ago.. and he got it last week friday...so i guess it could take a lesser time than amazon claims it would.
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It's now pushed to June 5th. I also cancelled my pre-order. Got an Acer C720 instead. This long delay is losing customers for Samsung.
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I think Amazon is BS'ing us.. I was there clicked and all kinds of stupid crap happened. It was added to my cart, then what do ya know... error. Hmmm.. glitch?
1001862
I have called amazon 4 times now... nobody knows anything! It says all over the internet that the Samsung models HAVE been released, and it's the Acer ones that have been delayed... no one seems to know anything. I'm tired of checking my orders 20+ times a day, I'm ready for them to ship it! I mean I preordered it June 9th and everything... it should've been delivered to me tomorrow :[
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I chatted with Amazon, and they said there was no definite date on when they'd actually receive this product. ExcaliberPC hasn't really been monkeying with the prices per say. At one point, they were informed by ASUS that the price was going to be $549.99, but the price was then announced back at $499.99. So they made that adjustment accordingly, only they still kept the list price at $549.99 and took the $50 off as a "discount". Yeah, shameful marketing move but the bottom line is that it's going at the MSRP and they do indeed have it in stock. I bit on ordering it from there rather than waiting on Amazon. The product has already shipped, so if you don't feel like waiting on Amazon or another more known vendor, I'd say that ExcaliberPC.com is the best source for this product.
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Thank you for the update. Major bummer - Apple seems to be screwing Amazon and the other retailers by holding out inventory of the new iMacs from them. I don't want to wait another month + either, so I'll probably get one from the Apple store too, and suffer the $150 tax hit. Booooo to Apple on this one.
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Amazon didnt sell you the unit. You got it from a 3rd party that sells on amazon. Hence this is why you guys cant price match. Always make sure it says IN STOCK AND SOLD BY AMAZON.COM. Under the price.
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My response:Dear CS professional,Can you please check your facts before responding? The promotions were offered by Amazon and whats more the promotions even indicated the current market price to indicate how big a discount was on offer!Also, by saying "There are several million items listed on our website, this makes it impossible for us to check the price of every item" are you implying that Amazon does not have internal controls on whats on its website and thereby everything on your website is unreliable? Amazon and its CS team need to get your act together. My response:Dear CS professional,Can you please check your facts before responding? The promotions were offered by Amazon and whats more the promotions even indicated the current market price to indicate how big a discount was on offer!Also, by saying "There are several million items listed on our website, this makes it impossible for us to check the price of every item" are you implying that Amazon does not have internal controls on whats on its website and thereby everything on your website is unreliable? Amazon and its CS team need to get... » Read More My response:Dear CS professional,Can you please check your facts before responding? The promotions were offered by Amazon and whats more the promotions even indicated the current market price to indicate how big a discount was on offer!Also, by saying "There are several million items listed on our website, this makes it impossible for us to check the price of every item" are you implying that Amazon does not have internal controls on whats on its website and thereby everything on your website is unreliable? Amazon and its CS team need to get your act together. « Show Less
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That's just the way Amazon works sometimes. Not everything makes sense. They may be very overstocked on the cheaper one.
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Don, If you scroll down past all the promo code deals you come to the terms and conditions. Read these and you will know more than you ever wanted about promo codes. As I understand it: the promo codes only apply to Amazon purchases and dealers offering a promo. Hope this helps. loueasy
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As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from $499 to $424, the 500GB version is also sold out at BestBuy and has price dropped from $299 to $254. As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from... » Read More As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from $499 to $424, the 500GB version is also sold out at BestBuy and has price dropped from $299 to $254. « Show Less
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The Netgear web site finally stopped showing "Coming Soon" but they had none in stock to buy. I finally saw availability on Amazon's site this morning so I bit the bullet. Unfortunately they STILL show 1-2 month wait while another company said it had 10 in stock at the time, but for $25 more. There are a couple of "reviews" from "beta" testers already out but there's nothing written that I would call good information yet about the hardware. If they were "beta testers" then they may have had previous firmware or even hardware revision units like the ones with less RAM. The Netgear web site finally stopped showing "Coming Soon" but they had none in stock to buy. I finally saw availability on Amazon's site this morning so I bit the bullet. Unfortunately they STILL show 1-2 month wait while another company said it had 10 in stock at the time, but for $25 more. There are a couple of "reviews" from "beta" testers already out but there's nothing written that I would call good information yet about the hardware. If they were "beta testers" then they may have had previous firmware or even hardware revision units like the... » Read More The Netgear web site finally stopped showing "Coming Soon" but they had none in stock to buy. I finally saw availability on Amazon's site this morning so I bit the bullet. Unfortunately they STILL show 1-2 month wait while another company said it had 10 in stock at the time, but for $25 more. There are a couple of "reviews" from "beta" testers already out but there's nothing written that I would call good information yet about the hardware. If they were "beta testers" then they may have had previous firmware or even hardware revision units like the ones with less RAM. « Show Less
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newegg jacked it up by 50 simply because they have it readily available whilst amazon doesnt... therefore... newegg ceased that chance to gain a lil extra money off of the ppl that simply cant wait ( US!!!! lol)well to be honest... dont think there is any difference...i think its just a typo on newegg's part...for sayin its ddr2 instead of ddr3so if i were you..id go for newegg.... i'm giving amazon till mid january... if they dont get organized. I along with 7 of my friends will be more than WILLING to pay an extra 50 if we have to.tho.. im still a little optimistic... hopefully, amazon WONT fail us :| ....:Dgd luck to u Sherina newegg jacked it up by 50 simply because they have it readily available whilst amazon doesnt... therefore... newegg ceased that chance to gain a lil extra money off of the ppl that simply cant wait ( US!!!! lol)well to be honest... dont think there is any difference...i think its just a typo on newegg's part...for sayin its ddr2 instead of ddr3so if i were you..id go for newegg.... i'm giving amazon till mid january... if they dont get organized. I along with 7 of my friends will be more than WILLING to pay an extra 50 if we have to.tho.. im still a... » Read More newegg jacked it up by 50 simply because they have it readily available whilst amazon doesnt... therefore... newegg ceased that chance to gain a lil extra money off of the ppl that simply cant wait ( US!!!! lol)well to be honest... dont think there is any difference...i think its just a typo on newegg's part...for sayin its ddr2 instead of ddr3so if i were you..id go for newegg.... i'm giving amazon till mid january... if they dont get organized. I along with 7 of my friends will be more than WILLING to pay an extra 50 if we have to.tho.. im still a little optimistic... hopefully, amazon WONT fail us :| ....:Dgd luck to u Sherina « Show Less
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Purchased mine on January 25th and I'm still waiting in the backorder queue, if that gives you any indication. I'll let you know when mine shows up, as it might give you an idea about yours. Regardless, I think waiting 4 weeks or so for Amazon to restock is well worth paying the MSRP instead of the 20% to 40% markup other online retailers are charging, including some of Amazon's own 3rd party sellers. I don't fault them for charging it though. If consumers are willing to pay the inflated prices then there's no reason a business shouldn't capitalize on it. I'm just saying I won't. waiting 30 days or so for delivery is worth $200 or more in my pocket. End of rant. ;o) Purchased mine on January 25th and I'm still waiting in the backorder queue, if that gives you any indication. I'll let you know when mine shows up, as it might give you an idea about yours. Regardless, I think waiting 4 weeks or so for Amazon to restock is well worth paying the MSRP instead of the 20% to 40% markup other online retailers are charging, including some of Amazon's own 3rd party sellers. I don't fault them for charging it though. If consumers are willing to pay the inflated prices then there's no reason a business shouldn't capitalize on it. I'm just saying I won't. waiting 30... » Read More Purchased mine on January 25th and I'm still waiting in the backorder queue, if that gives you any indication. I'll let you know when mine shows up, as it might give you an idea about yours. Regardless, I think waiting 4 weeks or so for Amazon to restock is well worth paying the MSRP instead of the 20% to 40% markup other online retailers are charging, including some of Amazon's own 3rd party sellers. I don't fault them for charging it though. If consumers are willing to pay the inflated prices then there's no reason a business shouldn't capitalize on it. I'm just saying I won't. waiting 30 days or so for delivery is worth $200 or more in my pocket. End of rant. ;o) « Show Less
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I just ordered mine with Newegg earlier today. I called and they had plenty in stock. Love you AMAZON but you need to have stock in order for us to order from you. I waited more than 1 week for AMAZON to get their stock in. NADA...had to buy from Newegg.