Best Buy stores only getting 4 Palm Pres for launch day?
“Whoa, whoa, easy there killer.” That’s probably one of the phrases coming out of your mouth at the moment. One of our most-trusty of ninjas just dropped this bomb in our mailbox — it’s going to be rough out there on June 6th, folks. We’ve been told that there are only roughly 4,250 Palm Pres that Best Buy stores will be receiving for launch day on June 6th. Scott Anderson of Best Buy Mobile told us there were around 1,000 Best Buy locations that would be selling the Pre, so this leaves us with around 4 units per store. For launch. Incredible, isn’t it?
If it makes you feel any better, we’ve heard Palm executives have already started sliting their wrists.
Thanks, fishman!
UPDATE: We just got word from a RadioShack ninja that 721 RadioShack stores will carry the Pre on launch day. Our guy guessed each store would get around 2 units each and the stores themselves are limited to high coastal areas like New York, New Jersey, California, Miami, Texas, etc.
Not. Good.
The store employess will probadly be buying this inventory so too bad for the rest of us.
@stuzman
I doubt the store employees will be able to buy one for themselves release day. This is usually the case.
@Christopher
Correct, not allowed to buy them themselves. Sadly they hold them for their friends and family if it a hot phone. Happens all the time. On top of that the ebay incentive is pretty strong.
Oh Sprint, how you continue to fail. I want to live to see the day of your demise and dance on your ashes.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=WJRU5BDZ24VKTKC4D3IFAGI?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=Palm+Pre&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960#storeInventoryLink
You’ll love the price =)
Eastern North Carolina RadioShacks are well stacked.