Black Friday predictions for TF300-700

[lonewolf40]

Hi forum. I'm earning some rewards gift cards through my employers health insurance monitoring program. I have another month and a half to go, and will end up with around $300. (it HAS to be used for a store like BBuy/amazon/target/etc. Can't get plain Visa gift card)

Anyway, I was thinking of saving it for Black friday at best buy, hoping they will carry the TF300. (don't want T700 due to wanting to run emulators + cost of higher res screen and materials) However, i'm hearing that stores are not supplying or stopping their supply of TF300 to replace with the 700. I figure the price won't drop anytime soon either.

Does anyone think stores will do doorbusters for TF300's for black friday, or will they be old inventory and pushed out by the next few months? (which obviously would mean they wouldn't carry them nationwide for doorbusters if the stock is non-existent) I would love to save money and find this for similar price to the $250 transformer on 2011 BFriday, but can't expect it 100% to happen again.

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[lonewolf40]

I guess I should specify that i'm looking for opinions to either wait till black friday, or buy sooner before inventory of the T300 disappears. (doubtful that there will be any big retail chain price drops before BFriday)

 

[blakerw87]

Hi forum. I'm earning some rewards gift cards through my employers health insurance monitoring program. I have another month and a half to go, and will end up with around $300. (it HAS to be used for a store like BBuy/amazon/target/etc. Can't get plain Visa gift card)

Anyway, I was thinking of saving it for Black friday at best buy, hoping they will carry the TF300. (don't want T700 due to wanting to run emulators + cost of higher res screen and materials) However, i'm hearing that stores are not supplying or stopping their supply of TF300 to replace with the 700. I figure the price won't drop anytime soon either.

Does anyone think stores will do doorbusters for TF300's for black friday, or will they be old inventory and pushed out by the next few months? (which obviously would mean they wouldn't carry them nationwide for doorbusters if the stock is non-existent) I would love to save money and find this for similar price to the $250 transformer on 2011 BFriday, but can't expect it 100% to happen again.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Anything could happen but I don't think the TF300 that would have a huge price drop. Its still one of the higher end tablets and retailers don't have any margins on them. You're probably looking at older models if any that will be discounted. I do think the tf300 price will drop pretty soon but probably not close to your $300 gift card.

 

[lonewolf40]

Anything could happen but I don't think the TF300 that would have a huge price drop. Its still one of the higher end tablets and retailers don't have any margins on them. You're probably looking at older models if any that will be discounted. I do think the tf300 price will drop pretty soon but probably not close to your $300 gift card.

That's what I thought also. I wasn't inferring that the price would get to $300 or less, I just mentioned that amount as my motivator to pick up one of these.

The wife wants and ipad, I want something android that is root/hack friendly, and is fast and has a great fan/development support. Plus the keyboard dock is tempting, i'm just not sure I can justify the extra cost just to end up using it for keyboard intensive DOS games like Tie Fighter. LOL