New Tablet
Magpie Girl and I went in to Harvey Norman Broadmeadows yesterday with the intention of getting a couple of their cheap 10 Inch Tablets....only to be told that there were none in stock (this, despite the fact, that 5 were showing up in the Store Stock Listing)
I even told the Sales Clerk that I saw only the day before that, according to their Web Site, they still had Stock at that Store (trust me, I wouldn't have bothered otherwise), and was told that it was probably a Computer Glitch
Really??
The Sales Clerk proceeded instead to try to interest us in a 'Free' iPad (7 Inch, rather than 10 Inch), and she proceeded to explain what the catch was....
The catch was that you had to sign up to a Plan
No thanks....it being an iPad aside, I'm not interested anyway
When we got home, I again looked up to see if the Web Site claimed that that Store had any Stock, and, once again, it said yes....so....I Printed off that information, so that when we go in there tomorrow, we can confront the Sales Clerk with the information, and demand to see her Manager if necessary
We've also gotten on to Live Chat and confirmed there that that Store has Stock, so, if we get the runaround again tomorrow, I'll be sending a variation of this Post to their Facebook Page!!
That was Wednesday....
We had at least *some* progress today (Friday)....
Armed with the information that they were showing Stock available via their Site, we went back in to Harvey Norman Broadmeadows today, and there was a different Sales Clerk on duty....which may well have helped....
We asked for two of the Cheap Tablets, and, after he checked the computer, off he went to see what they had....only to come back a minute or so later with just one....even though the computer was showing that there were two of them available
When I queried that, he said, "One of them was a return", and left it at that
So....we got the one they had, and it is currently on charge, and we'll test how good it is after that :-)
Well....
After Charging, which only took a couple of hours, this Cheap Tablet seems to work fine....
There appear to be a couple of minor glitches while playing games, but, otherwise all seems good with it :-)
Just goes to prove that you don't need to spend $1,632 for the latest iPad, or $1,047 for the latest Samsung....this Neos Flek (yeah, I've never heard of them before either) 10.1 Inch, 16G is enough to do the job :-)
They're currently being sold for $76, but their usual price is $96, so I don't know how long that will last....or how long they'll be around for, at that price :-)
Oh....when we checked the Site yesterday (Friday), there were none left at Broadmeadows, so it looks like we got the last one there :-/
I even told the Sales Clerk that I saw only the day before that, according to their Web Site, they still had Stock at that Store (trust me, I wouldn't have bothered otherwise), and was told that it was probably a Computer Glitch
Really??
The Sales Clerk proceeded instead to try to interest us in a 'Free' iPad (7 Inch, rather than 10 Inch), and she proceeded to explain what the catch was....
The catch was that you had to sign up to a Plan
No thanks....it being an iPad aside, I'm not interested anyway
When we got home, I again looked up to see if the Web Site claimed that that Store had any Stock, and, once again, it said yes....so....I Printed off that information, so that when we go in there tomorrow, we can confront the Sales Clerk with the information, and demand to see her Manager if necessary
We've also gotten on to Live Chat and confirmed there that that Store has Stock, so, if we get the runaround again tomorrow, I'll be sending a variation of this Post to their Facebook Page!!
That was Wednesday....
We had at least *some* progress today (Friday)....
Armed with the information that they were showing Stock available via their Site, we went back in to Harvey Norman Broadmeadows today, and there was a different Sales Clerk on duty....which may well have helped....
We asked for two of the Cheap Tablets, and, after he checked the computer, off he went to see what they had....only to come back a minute or so later with just one....even though the computer was showing that there were two of them available
When I queried that, he said, "One of them was a return", and left it at that
So....we got the one they had, and it is currently on charge, and we'll test how good it is after that :-)
Well....
After Charging, which only took a couple of hours, this Cheap Tablet seems to work fine....
There appear to be a couple of minor glitches while playing games, but, otherwise all seems good with it :-)
Just goes to prove that you don't need to spend $1,632 for the latest iPad, or $1,047 for the latest Samsung....this Neos Flek (yeah, I've never heard of them before either) 10.1 Inch, 16G is enough to do the job :-)
They're currently being sold for $76, but their usual price is $96, so I don't know how long that will last....or how long they'll be around for, at that price :-)
Oh....when we checked the Site yesterday (Friday), there were none left at Broadmeadows, so it looks like we got the last one there :-/