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[PRICE ERROR] Asus Eee Slate Ep121 Windows 7 Tablet - $122 Harvey Norman

SuperCow on 26/12/2012 - 01:23

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Found this whilst browsing the site. It seems a lot cheaper than all other retailers so it seems like a good deal.

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  • +6 votes
    greengrocer35 on 26/12/2012 - 03:01

    A perfect storm: late night deal + OzBargainers awake for Boxing Day.

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      Koolchops on 26/12/2012 - 03:33

      makes being a shiftworker on xmas night worth it!

  • +4 votes
    Sydgun on 26/12/2012 - 03:02

    It does say "Online Only" deal… must be HN's way of giving us a Christmas pressie

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    Lumior on 26/12/2012 - 03:02

    stil $122, still haven't received email…
    finger crossed, LOL

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      Android99 on 26/12/2012 - 03:04

      pay via CC or PayPal?

  • +1 vote
    aerona on 26/12/2012 - 03:02

    If they do happen to honour this by some magical chance, I think the person responsible will potentially getting the boot.

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      jackthefrost on 26/12/2012 - 06:48

      Just 'getting the boot'? They will be losing huge money if they honour it.

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    DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 03:04

    Placed an order for his boxing day sale and didnt get a email for that also and it was a iphone case for 99 cents

  • +3 votes
    yacman on 26/12/2012 - 03:10

    Say this is a pricing error, do OW stock this? because you know…

    • +1 vote
      Ace on 26/12/2012 - 03:14

      Make sure you get a screenshot of the site while the price is still $122 then print it off and show them.

      • +2 votes
        yacman on 26/12/2012 - 03:15

        done as of 30 min ago ;) lol

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          aerona on 26/12/2012 - 03:22

          Seems jb-hifi & OW don't have it on their online site.

        • +1 vote
          yacman on 26/12/2012 - 03:27

          Shame, OW seem to be one of the only stores I'm familiar with, that will match a price even when it is under cost for them.

          HN for example I have experienced multiple times, that they will refuse to go under cost OR when I was purchasing a T.V for example they did not believe the price I got from GoodGuys, (must of thought I was making it up (I wasn't)) literally laughed at me and told me to go get it from there then. I was happy to spend my money elsewhere.

    • +7 votes
      couger on 26/12/2012 - 03:25

      at least it is not slow enough to cause family crysis 3 times a day.

      • +2 votes
        ryudo222 on 26/12/2012 - 03:39

        Wow….no sense of humor here in the ozb chat….got negged pretty hard….ill behave myself from now on

        • +4 votes
          Ace on 26/12/2012 - 03:50

          Try a pun next time. They're always a hit.

        • +1 vote
          blitz on 26/12/2012 - 04:14

          Hey there's no need to slate pun-makers! ;)

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    turbo77 on 26/12/2012 - 03:16

    i guess this woke me up. paypal confirmed payment completed they took my money with confirmation order numbers. see what happens. or i will guess the staff at HN will be in strife with alot of angry OZB

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    KayDat on 26/12/2012 - 03:16

    lol, this deal explains why the HN site went down. Been staying up making print outs to do some Boxing Day shopping.

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    Darkstyles on 26/12/2012 - 03:17

    If harvey Norman's checkout is like officeworks - the stock check is done at payment processing (Yep, sounds stupid and it is).

    So seeing as people are still able to order - it means they have stock!

    EDIT: Can someone give a quick explanation on what a broden is?

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    yacman on 26/12/2012 - 03:22

    I'm sorry guys but as mentioned above in their terms:

    (5) The goods and services described in this website are available from Harvey Norman Online only (unless the goods or services are specified as “available in store only”), and will be available for you to make an offer to Harvey Norman Online via the website to purchase at the specified price on or before the end date specified in a current catalogue, or until otherwise removed from the website or as specified, and where Harvey Norman Online accepts your offer, Harvey Norman Online will sell the goods or services to you in accordance with these Terms and any Catalogue Terms.

    Defined by HN Terms - "Order" means an offer made by you in response to an invitation to treat made by Harvey Norman Online via the website

    Put simply my interpretation is:

    If we make an order online with confirmation. That is just confirmation that HN received our 'offer' to pay that amount and they have a choice to accept or deny that 'offer'

    The part where it is one sided is that, we are bind by a contract to uphold that offer, but they are not until they accept it (accepting it, is not order confirmation).

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      greenpossum on 26/12/2012 - 03:31

      That's not so different from a shop where a price sticker is an "offer to treat" and no contract exists until the merchant accepts the offer. So I fully expect our offers will be rejected later today.

    • +1 vote
      garratt torlesse on 26/12/2012 - 04:26

      True, but if HN actually accepts the paypal payment or make a charge to the credit card. They have accepted the offer, thus making the contract binding.

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    michaelTito on 26/12/2012 - 03:23

    ordered 1 via paypal and received the confirmation email 10 mins after.

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      mady123 on 26/12/2012 - 03:26

      Confirmation email from HN or from paypal?

      • +1 vote
        michaelTito on 26/12/2012 - 03:37

        from HN

        • +1 vote
          arrogant84 on 26/12/2012 - 03:51

          how lucky u are bro
          i ordered 1 by cc and 1 by paypal but havent received confirm email yet

  • +3 votes
    TheShiva on 26/12/2012 - 03:28

    Bought it! Reminds me of the HP Webpad firesale! Havent received the confirmation still yet though!

  • +1 vote
    Darkstyles on 26/12/2012 - 03:29

    They probably just want to clear inventory, hence the low price. They're going to clear out the Win7 tablets I assume…

    And maybe use Boxing Day as an excuse to allow the higher-ups to approve the orders :)

  • +3 votes
    aerona on 26/12/2012 - 03:31

    I think the only way HN should settle this if they did honour is to honour the first 1000 but only allow customers to have 1 each and the option to cancel or keep their order.

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      DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 03:33

      Would they have so much stock of an item?

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      yacman on 26/12/2012 - 03:37

      A reasonable compromise, in the interest of fairness.

      However unfortunately if it got to that, it's unlikely.

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    DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 03:32

    OH god should i try use paypal? ive done an order for iphone cases and there is no confirmation order either

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      aerona on 26/12/2012 - 03:34

      That seems to be the general consensus so far.

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    SubZ on 26/12/2012 - 03:33

    seems to be capped at 10000 units when checking out. Even with the thousands of sales this bargain has generated that number/unit quantity has remained constant over the past 2 hours.

    i have my doubts they'll honour this but fingers crossed

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    Koolchops on 26/12/2012 - 03:34

    Mobile site still has it at $122 also!
    Didnt need it! still got it!

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    dreamscene on 26/12/2012 - 03:39

    I hope they at least admit to a mistake but serve the first 150 customers just to be polite and spread the holiday cheer lol. (They might get good free publicity from this on mainstream media)

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    db1 on 26/12/2012 - 03:41

    I bought two as well. Will be a nice Xmas gift. I guess this is one way to boost HN sales. They have finally worked out the best way to make a sale is to sell things at a great price. Lets hope they honor the deal :)

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    yacman on 26/12/2012 - 03:44

    Confirmed that they took my money from the Paypal payment.

    Wait and see what happens.

    Does anyone know this being an Online only order the best way to get in touch with them?

    I can see getting a refund as possibly a headache scenario or alliteratively, if by some huge miracle they honer this, I would like to contact them and ask to combine my shipping and an E-Mail department does not seem efficient, (I will take it as a contact if someone knows it though?) or is their a phone number anyone is aware of?

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    DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 03:47

    Just was going to do a paypal order and my account has been debited with the amount but no confirmation email, too poor to try process another order via paypal ill guess it will have to do

  • +3 votes
    Darkstyles on 26/12/2012 - 03:47

    I'd laugh if this was some sort of test to see if people can find deals without them needing to be advertised via traditional media - which would save them millions of dollars a year - in exchange for a few ASUS PCs xD

    Well - they succeeded! They underestimated the power of ozBargain :)

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    Aquilius on 26/12/2012 - 03:50

    I think lets NOT get greedy and order more than one each people…

    I ordered one, they of course, should honour this full stop, but they are more likely to honour it if you dont place multiple orders imo. Also save your order receipt number.

    They took the money out of my account, but I did not get a confirmation email… strange….?

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    jonbo on 26/12/2012 - 03:59

    Just ordered one, thanks. :)

  • +1 vote
    scorpiosony on 26/12/2012 - 04:02

    OMG…Just wake up for pee…wat a gift for a PEE!!!

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    curryfever on 26/12/2012 - 04:05

    do you guys think there will be in store stock?

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      ms on 26/12/2012 - 04:10

      no

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    ms on 26/12/2012 - 04:10

    Ordered one. Got an email from Paypal, nothing yet from HN. Hope this does not go pear shaped as "luck" is not a friend of mine.

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    mjjeje on 26/12/2012 - 04:13

    Ordered one but didn't get confirmation page (nor confirmation email). Checked that payment had been made via paypal though.

  • +7 votes
    kesh on 26/12/2012 - 04:14

    Well done SuperCow. You are well on your way to scoring a double century of votes or even more on your debut. An achievement of sorts I would say.

    • +1 vote
      Tal_Shiar on 26/12/2012 - 04:23

      ^ whoever down voted that comment should be named and shamed

      • +4 votes
        wtfnodeal on 26/12/2012 - 04:30

        Must be HN rep or HN himself :-[

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          DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 04:36

          Not me i gave him a +

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    junkie13 on 26/12/2012 - 04:35

    Lucky this was posted at 2am otherwise would of being expire by now. I want to give you 2+ well done on your first post.

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    wtfnodeal on 26/12/2012 - 04:35

    Hope it isn't MS discontinued making and supporting windows tablets like HP and tried to dump them at a bargain price ASAP?

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    Huntta on 26/12/2012 - 04:38

    Bought one as well, awesome deal, meaw..

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    dasher22 on 26/12/2012 - 04:42

    Still going for $122. Bought one. Thanks OP

    No confirmation email though.

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    4iedemon on 26/12/2012 - 04:43

    received the PayPal confirmation email 30 minutes ago but no emails from HN yet…

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    ms on 26/12/2012 - 04:45

    Don't think I will be getting the email confirmation for this order anytime soon.

    I did a small test and registered a test account on HN's site. The confirmation email for that arrived within a minute.

    The email confirmation for the actual product hasn't arrived even though the order was placed an hour ago :(

  • +1 vote
    annoynimous on 26/12/2012 - 04:47

    publicity stunt made by HN to stress test their online system

    wishful thinking really, if we all expect the thousands of orders to be honored :D

    the cheapest price is around 700 over, and even at clearance of say 300-400 is considered mighty cheap

    I bet there's plenty of multiple orders by re-sellers (and would be re-sellers)

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    Shlomo Scheinbaum on 26/12/2012 - 04:57

    Ordered two, thankfully I was up at 5:30 because I was constipated from eating too much Christmas food. Take THAT Metamucil.

    • +2 votes
      Briggles0 on 26/12/2012 - 10:27

      lol uhm, thanks for sharing?

  • +1 vote
    teehee on 26/12/2012 - 04:58

    pity it was abused..wishful thinking makes me want them to honour single purchases only. But it won't happen unfortunately.

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    DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 05:01

    Got a confirmation for my Iphone cases, which was placed after this… anyone else

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    ms on 26/12/2012 - 05:01

    Is there a way to track the order from HN's website?

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      Chris McMahon on 26/12/2012 - 05:03

      Log on. Select "(yourname)'s Account" then "My orders".

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        ms on 26/12/2012 - 05:06

        Thanks. Doesn't show anything under it unfortunately.

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          DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 05:10

          I just had to create an account so it will list nothing

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    Chris McMahon on 26/12/2012 - 05:02

    I ordered one. Unfortunately it looks like I'm several hours, and hundred of orders, late to the party. My order is "pending".

    I won't sweat it if I miss out, but it would be a nice belated Christmas present to myself. :)

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    Revolutionize on 26/12/2012 - 05:02

    Ordered, thanks OP. Having said that, I doubt I'll get it.

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    lusicul on 26/12/2012 - 05:07

    Just got back from lining up at David Jones to get free $100 gift card and saw this.
    Bought one for myself and one for my lil bro. Thanks OP! fingers crossed it will be honored

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      teehee on 26/12/2012 - 05:13

      There are free $100 gift cards at david jones? :O

    • +1 vote
      moonlite51 on 26/12/2012 - 05:18

      What? free $100 DJ gift card offer? How?

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        Bitsurfr on 26/12/2012 - 05:30

        Store promo to get ppl to line up outside before the sale. Free $100 giftcards to the first n number of ppl in the line (100?)

        They do this every year.

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          teehee on 26/12/2012 - 05:32

          oh…I guess it's too late for that now.

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    zephyrik on 26/12/2012 - 05:12

    Just bought one.. though I hardly believe this will be honoured..

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    ms on 26/12/2012 - 05:16

    How to get paypal to refund the money?

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    Aquilius on 26/12/2012 - 05:17

    just wondering, is the cpu on this puppy faster than my netbook's dual core atom 1.66?

    thx

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      xuqi on 26/12/2012 - 05:23

      This would be faster than 4x dual core Atom CPU's. :)

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    mitchconner on 26/12/2012 - 05:21

    page not found now :(

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      DaTa on 26/12/2012 - 05:23

      That guy looks like a douche!

      • +2 votes
        ms on 26/12/2012 - 05:24

        Hope G Harvey's pacemaker is not working overtime

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          4iedemon on 26/12/2012 - 05:27

          try again… the link is working again…

          EDIT: sorry the add to cart is disabled…

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          wolfenator87 on 26/12/2012 - 05:50

          HAHA - This massive malfunction might kill him. There will be hell to pay for whoever is in charge of the website!

  • -1 vote
    mein on 26/12/2012 - 05:23

    Looks like I missed out, and not because I was too late, but because I'm in France and my Credit Card payments kept getting rejected for being too Risky.

  • +1 vote
    cyrax83 on 26/12/2012 - 05:26

    why can't I add it to my cart?

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    PLANT on 26/12/2012 - 05:28

    I've been watching last 30 minutes
    Smart phone shows offer but add to cart does not work now.anyone else confirm deal over. not logged in

    • +1 vote
      cyrax83 on 26/12/2012 - 05:29

      yep can't add it into my cart…

  • +1 vote
    bugoy8 on 26/12/2012 - 05:29

    Cant add to cart either

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    xuqi on 26/12/2012 - 05:33

    The charge on my Visa card for the purchase amount just disappeared, so I can confirm my order was not accepted.

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    wa01 on 26/12/2012 - 05:34

    20 mins ago I ordered 2 more for friends (3.11am WST). Worked, but no email yet.
    Also both orders are shown in my Bankwest CC account.

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      Aquilius on 26/12/2012 - 05:39

      if they were to dishonour any of the orders i would think that it will people like you who order more than one.. just saying… of course i cant see how they would for small order(s) because the money is already taken out of my (and i assume others) accounts.

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        wa01 on 26/12/2012 - 05:53

        No worries. Not buying for resale, just for friends chrissy presents, so I think it's the right spirit :^) 90% sure this deal is nogo.

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        moonlite51 on 26/12/2012 - 06:18

        You seem to against ppl buying multiple purchase. I reckon it's their right to buy as many as they can afford. If it's not honoured, it's because HN's error anyway, not bcos there are individuals who purchased more than one (fyi I only bought one) :)

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    shakeb on 26/12/2012 - 05:34

    Can't add to shopping cart. I click on Add to shopping caty and it says there are no items in your shopping cart :(

  1. Shlomo Scheinbaum on 26/12/2012 - 18:08
    +64 I'm going to take issue with
  2. mrdevil on 26/12/2012 - 02:39
    +38 People who order bulk of an
  3. meetspin on 26/12/2012 - 09:40
    +30 Gerry just trolled all of
  4. HD on 26/12/2012 - 02:37
    +24 We need an alarm app to wake
  5. MMM on 29/12/2012 - 04:59
    +23 Small article in today's
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