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With less than 24 hours until the New Zealand launch of arguably the most highly anticipated piece of gadgetry since the iPhone, we still have no sign of any retailers putting their hands up and actually confirming that they’ll be stocking it and how many they’ve got. Which leaves those dying to get their hands on one with a bit of dilema: where to queue and where to avoid?
Well, we’ve tried to tease information out of people all day long, but we’ve had little-to-no success. The Apple Silence Machine is working well in New Zealand, it would seem! Here’s the little that we have got:
Earlier today, Paul Brislen of Vodafone tweeted the follow to @Polarbearfarm who was asking whether Voda would be selling the iPad themselves:
that’s right… got to go to Magnum or Dick or JB or similar for the box. ^PB
We asked Paul if this was insider knowledge or an educated guess, but he didn’t reply. I hope we haven’t upset him! (You can take it right, Paul?!)
MagnumMac is quite obviously going to be selling it given that they’re the strongest retail presence for Apple products in NZ, but it hasn’t been confirmed. Their website doesn’t even mention it, but we know that at least one poor soul is camped out there right now waiting to get their hands on a unit, and we’re sure the nice folks at MagnumMac would have tipped him off if he were wasting his time.
We reached out to Dick Smith’s but they wouldn’t comment. There are rumours flying around that some of their stores will carry them on launch day, but numbers are unknown.
JB Hifi interestingly has a placeholder page on their website for ‘iPad and iPad Accessories’ which then tells you that ‘no stores match your query’, so it’s a safe bet that they’ll be on their shelves at some point but it’s unclear when.
We called some Harvey Norman stores to try to tease some details out of their sales team but nobody we spoke to knew anything about it at all (or at least that’s what they were telling us). Their website returns no results for the term ‘iPad’, but we’ve reached out to their Twittering folk and will let you know if they reply.
Noel Leeming is much the same deal – no mention of it on their website, nobody at any stores claiming to know anything, and no Twitter presence whatsoever bar a couple of accounts in their name that tweeted one thing each at some point in time and then evidently gave up.
It’s a safe bet that the usual Apple resellers in New Zealand will get the device, but it’s impossible to know who will get it when, and in what quantities. Given that dilemma, what will be your gamble? Where will you queue up tomorrow and what will you do if the doors open and there’s zero stock? Perhaps you’re planning to buy from Apple direct? Hit the comments and share your game plans (and any juicy tips you may have, too!). |
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