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Earlier this week Best Buy was complaining to HP about the “the mountain[s] of unsold TouchPads [were] taking up too much space in its stores and warehouses” (AllThingsD) so it was no surprise when HP announces they were discontinuing the product after only six weeks on the market. The products which went on sale for prices as low as a 16GB model (dropping in price from $399 to $99) and the 32GB model (dropping from $499 to $145) caused major problems with HP’s website as demand skyrocketed for the product. The site simply “couldn’t handle the load [with] the masses” (ZD Net) and suffered a cart glitch affecting thousands of interested buyers as well as the unfortunate HP call center representatives  who worked on Sunday afternoon.

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