Turns out that the price/sale change we noticed earlier today was not a mistake. RIM has corrected the dates bringing the sale back to what it was before they brought the price to $299 across the board. They are now back to selling the 16GB PlayBook for $199, 32GB PlayBook for $249, and the 64GB PlayBook for $299. This is all in the lead in to the PlayBook OS 2.0 launch along with a new PlayBook in the works with a faster processor speed.
Check out the deal on ShopBlackBerry. No coupons necessary this time! Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
Chris Not Registered
Posted: January 29, 2012 at 5:19 PM EST
While shopblackberry is listing this as a sale price/expiry date, both Future Shop and Best Buy are showing $199/$249/$299 as the new regular retail price for an indefinite term, not a sale price.
laura Not Registered
Posted: January 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM EST
At my bestbuy the 16gb is 499.00 and so on…
JC Not Registered
Posted: January 29, 2012 at 9:20 PM EST
Guess that makes my ebay screamin’ deal not so great. My Best Buy isn’t even carrying PlayBook in store anymore. All accessories were on clearance as well.
Why do I feel like I’ve been conned…
chrisF Not Registered
Posted: January 29, 2012 at 10:05 PM EST
So I was wanting an inexpensive tablet to just surf the web, go to Face Book and some forums when I go to lunch from work, so I ordered a 16GB, referb playbook for $169 bucks, now they are $199 new. Im wondering if I did the right thing now. Should have it in a couple day. I hope im pleased with it. There is a 30 day return policy with BestBuy, so I guess im covered. Any opinions on the price?
Chris Not Registered
Posted: January 29, 2012 at 10:16 PM EST
laura: Where I was seeing the new list price was the Canadian Best Buy /Future Shop websites, it might be different elsewhere or could be incorrect.
chrisF: Personally i’d say you paid a very reasonable price and you purchased for all the right reasons: An easily portable web browser that doesn’t freeze up with a good battery life, and while it’s nice if it does something more, there’s no expectation of it.
chrisF Not Registered
Posted: January 29, 2012 at 10:22 PM EST
Thanks for your vote of confidence Chris. I plan on buying something more expensive and capable later, just not right now. Since im new to this device, does anyone know if I can download a movie to it, and play it?
PB Forever ( View Profile) Master - Posts: 1334
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM EST
The video has to be DRM free for you to either sync or drag and drop into PB from your computer.
Unless you download directly from on line source.
Just letting you know.
JC Not Registered
Posted: January 29, 2012 at 11:48 PM EST
Don’t misunderstand my above comment… it’s an awesome device, really. I’m extremely happy with it… just could have gotten a better deal waiting. Anyway…
“Watch videos wherever you go with your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. Your tablet plays high-resolution videos and supports a variety of video formats, such as AVI, ASF, Fv4, MP4, and WMV.”
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/27018/PlayBook_playing_videos_tips_1453235_11.jsp
Good info here, too:
http://crackberry.com/tags/blackberry-playbook-101
Joe257 ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 397
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 8:12 AM EST
RIM must have an updated PlayBook in the works that will soon be out! They must really need to clear out the old stock!
I would have thought the prices of the existing PlayBook would drop once the new one is out, but it looks like they want to continue the hot sales! Getting more PlayBooks in the hands of consumers and developers cannot be bad!
chrisF Not Registered
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM EST
Thanks PB Forever, I dont mind purchasing or renting legally, question is, is there a way to do it legally? Are there apps for it?
PB Forever ( View Profile) Master - Posts: 1334
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 11:01 AM EST
ChrisF, yes there is as long as you own the DVDs personally, PM me and I’ll send you the link to the site I downloaded my software from. It’s not a spam or a scam
so don’t worry and it works great. I ripped two movies onto my computer and synced it up to my PB before I went on my vacation. It worked great.
chrisF Not Registered
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 10:00 PM EST
Do I need to join a forum to PM you? I recieved an email from best buy on my order, telling me its back ordered, and may not recieve it for a couple weeks. If the price on new ones has droped, why does Best Buys web site still have the higher prices?
PB Forever ( View Profile) Master - Posts: 1334
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 10:20 PM EST
Just click on the PM under the reply and that’ll put you on private message email to me.
Best Buy most likely doesn’t keep a lot of them in stock and just order based upon customers coming in and asking for it like you do. Probably the best way and fastest is to directly order from Rim. And I’m not sure why Best Buy would have the higher price.
I ordered mine from Shopblackberry.com and got delivery in three days time via Fedex. I’m pretty sure if you order directly from Blackberry you’ll get the deal price and they didn’t charge for shipping, just the regular taxes for your state/province.
chrisF Not Registered
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 10:44 PM EST
I did that and it took me to the berry forums. Went to the link, nice website, I can buy straight from there, nice! Now im wondering if I should just spend a little more and go 32GB, or just wait for my 16GB referb from BB, decisions decisions! Is 16GB that small, that I would fill it up that quick with videos, pics, movies? Any opinions?
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) Senior admin - Posts: 5449
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 10:51 PM EST
Weird you should not see the PM link unless you are logged in otherwise it won’t work…
chrisF ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 2
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 11:04 PM EST
Ok, got it working, I registered.
Gary Not Registered
Posted: February 2, 2012 at 12:25 AM EST
Drop price will not bring in buyer if the new os can’t support android app.
I think blackberry should provide a way to automatically pack android app from android marketplace to blackberry marketplace. And at least have a plan to attract or award
android developer to port over their apps. Rim is making the same mistake by assuming people will like and support their new os. Rim never understand they can’t stay at home and wait for develop to bring their app to them. They need do something other than just give a os ready for android app.
Gary from gridding.com
NightFire ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 11
Posted: February 2, 2012 at 7:59 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9700 | OS 6.0+
I noticed that Amazon.com dropped the price of the 16 GB model to $199, just this morning. With free shipping and no tax, I had to cave.