Select Apple Resellers Set to Carry iPad at Launch?

Amazon is still hiding the ipad. Try to find it lol. Poor amazon.

How am I to buy one if I dont know they sell one?

Sounds dumb if true.

PeachMac locations will have the iPad on Saturday.

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Amazon is still hiding the ipad. Try to find it lol. Poor amazon.

Yeah, that's weird. I guess they don't have any to sell, but usually they are big sellers of Apple gear. Even when they don't have 'em to sell 'em, they have a pre-order page.

Seems like anyone that doesn't have a reservation at an apple store should defintely find an apple authorized dealer near them and get there at opening on saturday. Since its being kept pretty secret, there probably won't be the type of lines you'd see at an apple store or best buy.

Seems like anyone that doesn't have a reservation at an apple store should defintely find an apple authorized dealer near them and get there at opening on saturday. Since its being kept pretty secret, there probably won't be the type of lines you'd see at an apple store or best buy.

Do you really think they'll be lines at Best Buy? Did that many people who want one the first day not order one for delivery or pickup at Apple already?

Granted, I didn't want to be a "first day-er" on this particular Apple product, but all the hype this week has me a bit into the iPad fever, and I was planning on swinging by the local Best Buy after the gym on Saturday morning, so maybe there are more like me than I am thinking...

Apple's in business to make money. Apple not allowing an authorized reseller to state they will have the iPad is asinine. Does Apple not want money? What about folks that don't have the "beloved" Apple Store in their town?

Jobs' RDF to the max on this one.

Yeah, that's weird. I guess they don't have any to sell, but usually they [Amazon] are big sellers of Apple gear. Even when they don't have 'em to sell 'em, they have a pre-order page.

My original plan for the iPad was to wait and see if it had issues and stuff for a week or two, and then to buy it on Amazon if it lived up to the hype. With free shipping and Amazon's lack of sales tax in California, I'd save 10% off the price.

Great plan if you don't want to be first in line, but as mentioned in prior post, I should have known all the podcast and tech blogs would have whipped up the fanboy in me and made me want one on day one. :eek:

Do you really think they'll be lines at Best Buy? Did that many people who want one the first day not order one for delivery or pickup at Apple already?

Granted, I didn't want to be a "first day-er" on this particular Apple product, but all the hype this week has me a bit into the iPad fever, and I was planning on swinging by the local Best Buy after the gym on Saturday morning, so maybe there are more like me than I am thinking...

Unfortunately, you and I aren't the only ones who now find themselves begrudging not having preordered one. I'm definitely getting to my nearest Best Buy two hours in advance. (Though if there are more than five people there going for the 64 gig version, it looks like I'll be waiting till the 11th or 12th. D'oh.)

Apple's in business to make money. Apple not allowing an authorized reseller to state they will have the iPad is asinine. Does Apple not want money? What about folks that don't have the "beloved" Apple Store in their town?

Jobs' RDF to the max on this one.

Apple did just fine limiting the original iPhones to Apple and AT&T stores only, didn't they? How long was it before you could actually buy one at someplace other than those two places?

Apple's more interested in the media hype and the free publicity that lines and hordes of fanboys flocking to the limited sales locations provide than the greatest convenience for customers. All those not near an Apple Store that had to be first in line probably pre-ordered anyways; the rest, if they want one, they'll find a way. It's not like someone who wants an iPad will end up not buying it in the long run because they couldn't get it at Joes' Computer Authorized Apple Retailer on the first day of sales...