Want to grab an iPad 2 but didn’t manage to get one over the weekend? Word on the street has it that Apple will be opening its Retail Stores one hour early on Tuesday to sell people a new shipment of iPad 2s.
The report comes from Apple Bitch, who says:
While no official announcement has been forthcoming from Apple, anecdotal reports from shoppers across the country trying get an iPad 2 this morning, say they were told by retail staff that even if the Apple Stores were re-stocked today, the iPad 2 would not be sold until tomorrow and for this reason, the Stores would open early for dedicated iPad 2 sales. We have confirmed this with three retail stores.
In other words, if you want an iPad 2, it sounds like it’s a fool’s errand to spend a lot of time running back and forth between Apple Stores today, looking for a new shipment. Instead, prepare to wait in line first thing tomorrow morning. Could we have a mini repeat tomorrow morning of the long lines we saw on Friday?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
27 responses to “Apple Stores To Open One Hour Early Tomorrow To Sell New Shipment of iPad 2s”
Dammit I hope this holds for Wednesday, I can’t line up tomorrow.
what will that mean for the 5th Avenue store that is open 24/7?
Are they getting more docks?
They did that this morning, too! I was waiting for 10 am to roll around this morning so I could grab one but they let me in at like 8:50.
i’d like to know that too.
i’d like to know that too.
did you get one?
I’m not buying, but if I was, I’d wait a couple weeks for any defects that were discovered in mass manufacturing to be cleaned up.
Two rules. Never buy version 1 of a device and never buy the first two weeks.
What about Best Buy – my closet Apple store is an hour away.
Yeah. I love it! I remember her saying that they only had one or two units of certain models but they had least one of everything. Going at open on a weekday is your best bet because they get small shipments almost every night.
LOL @ “The report comes from Apple B****”. :D
I managed to snag four of them by sending in different people. I then sold each one for 50% mark up. I made out like a bandit.
No early open at Chicago (Lincoln Park) or at least no iPad 2’s for today according to a courteous Apple employee who clued us in at 8am.
yea i agree. im buying in june, yea sounds crazy, for any defects that were discovered in mass manufacturing to be cleaned up. kinda like the iphone 4