The Only Place Left to Find an HP TouchPad Deal

By Johnathan Davis | August 22 2011 4:03 PM

HP kicked off a fire sale this weekend, dropping the whole family of its Touchpad tablet computers to bargain-basement prices, but with most retailers selling out within minutes, where can you find one?

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Not only do buyers who partake in the HP TouchPad sale, expected to continue this week, get a heavily discounted $99 tablet computer, but they also receive a free 50GB of lifetime cloud storage through Box.net.

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According to online deals forum, Slickdeals, the only retailers left with anything left in stock are the ones carrying them at full-price. That means this deal is essentially over.

The site lists these as place with inventory left, as of 4pm EST:

--Barcodegiant

--BJ's

--CompUSA.com

--insight.com

--Newegg

--PCConnectionExpress

--La Curacao

But you don't have to pay full price. It seems scalpers have picked up the discounted TouchPad and they are moving quickly on Ebay. The regularly priced $499 tablet is going for around $255 on the online auction shop.

Granted, this is a far-cry from the give-away price of $99, but below $300 is still less than the $499 iPad, and Android based competitors as well.

Comparatively, the Amazon Kindle is $140, meaning slightly less than $100 more can get you a fully fledged tablet computer, but still save over competing brands.

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