Some Website: Anemic Sales of HP TouchPad at Best Buy

Arik Hesseldahl:

According to one source who has seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory.

A second person who has seen Best Buy’s TouchPad sales figures confirmed the results as “consistent with what I’ve seen,” and went so far as to say that 25,000 sold might be “charitable.” This source suggested that the 25,000-unit sales number may not account for units that consumers return to stores for a refund.

Sad.

Also, a clear example of the potentially stark differences between “shipped” and “sold”.

★ Wednesday, 17 August 2011