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Uploaded by on Aug 21, 2011

From Harvey Norman Martin Place, Sydney. 5mins before the scheduled sale start time (2pm) for the HP TouchPad fire-sale, a lone security guard tries to turn people around.

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  • @OzDJ Thanks, so they didn't actually have the fire-sale yet, but said it was sold out by counting the current people inside the store waiting for one?

  • @LightDontShine The sale was announced in various media outlets at around 1.00pm on 22Aug11. People started arriving at stores shortly thereafter. As soon as the store found out (~1.15pm) about the sale it they just started selling at the reduced price - not waiting for the official 2pm kick-off. Hope that clarifies.

  • you def no when a store gets so many calls about it when u call bestbuy and the guy says "hello, my name is james we are out of hp touchpads, how may i help you?"

  • @SuGxNati0n Hehehe... the store seen here (Harvey Norman, Martin Place - Sydney, Australia) actually gave up answering their phones in the middle of it all. I watched who I suspect was the duty manager instruct his team to "...just leave 'em [the phones] and keep an eye on the customers...'. Hehehe

  • LOL can you imagine saying "touchpad sold out" all day long? That would suck... They should've just put up a big sign outside.

  • @ronpack In fairness to Harvey Norman Martin Place management, I'm told that they found out (from head office) about the fire-sale at ~1.10pm, which is AFTER most customers did. There was little time to prepare for the onslaught of people and they really did do their best to maintain order (and safety) in a challenging situation. Asking the security guard to make a quick (repeated) announcement - while NOT the most elegant solution to stemming demand - was quick and effective IMHO.

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  • @ChroledHard lol, u mad bc u paid 5 times more for your ipad? not everyone need all those apps from apple, some people just want to use the internet and use it for email.

  • It would have been awesome if a riot started.....

  • @OzDJ Ohhhh, now it makes sense :D Damn, are they even allowed to sell it before the set time? O.O

  • Weren't these things dicontinued anyway.

  • lol ipad is better noobs

  • it's funny because it's only guys wanting this.....lol

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