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iPad iPad Air 2 64 GB - Black ones in short supply?
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It is an annoying problem, all the Apple Stores seem to have plenty of stock, so if it is a manufacturing issue they are hoarding them all for themselves, or Best Buy underestimated demand.
Same issue here. Called them and they said virtually no warehouses nationwide has them. Which is absurd.
Hm. This concerns me greatly because I've been thinking about doing the iPad trade-in deal to upgrade from the 4 to the Air 2. However, while I like my white iPhone, I am strictly a black-bezel iPad man. I don't like a white rectangle around my netflix screen... hmm...
Apparently I was equally lucky...bestbuy.com showed that one of the stores near me had stock on the 64GB space gray WiFi model last week, so I went over there with my trade. When I arrived they claimed they didn't have any, but after I showed them the info on the website, they double-checked and found that three (!) had just been delivered. So I took one, site showed inventory was gone by the end of the day, and I haven't seen them pop up again anywhere near me since.
Just good timing, I guess.
I went to best buy today, they are out and the man said they are getting a blind shipment from Apple this week( means they don't know what date just that it is this week)
Same here. Been pestering them all week and no SG 64gbs. They won't even order one for me (can't I guess).
NOTE: my local Best Buy used to have the iPad area up front, but since the Air 2 launch they removed it and now have the iPads with the Macs. Don't know if it's temporary but found it odd.
NOTE: my local Best Buy used to have the iPad area up front, but since the Air 2 launch they removed it and now have the iPads with the Macs. Don't know if it's temporary but found it odd.
Same at mine. iPads used to be right up front with all e other tablets but now it's in the back sort of squeezed into the Mac section. I wonder if this is part of some deal with Samsung because when I walk into my Best Buy I'm pretty much in their Samsung mini-store and seeing mostly Samsung employees rather than Best Buy employees.
So nutty. I'm in L.A., a pretty techy city and also a very Apple-centric city and you cannot get a space grey ipad in 64 or 128 sizes at Best Buy. They won't even let you order them on the website. They are listed as outright unavailable. Yet the apple stores are full of them... Silver ones are also hard to find. Seems Best Buy is in the gold ipad business. Very odd.
The 64 gb silver Tmobile version has a wait time of 6 to 8 weeks...Silver seems more hard to find than the space grey....
Same thought I had. Samsung area was directly after the iPad stand, which I'm sure they were working to change.
Can't blame Best Buy. I'm certain their margins are better on Samsung products, not to mention the need for Geek Squad support on them keeping the business flowing.
I think they were ordered in even amounts of all 3 colors at BB but since iPad Air 2 seems (to me) to be more of a hard core
fan upgrade (mostly male geeks) Space Grey/Black is the one most of the current audience wants. Only a theory before anyone jumps down my throat.
Not when you can save close to $300 buying from Best Buy. Finally got my space gray today! Got sucked in and splurged on a 128GB wifi. ~$440 out the door with my iPad 3 trade in