Retailers ready BlackBerry PlayBook fire sale for holiday push

Release Date ‎Nov 16, 2011‎ in Apple Insider

Retailers slash RIM tablet prices Toronto Star - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4S and price cuts on legacy models have taken a bite out of sales of Research In Motion Ltd.'s refreshed BlackBerry lineup, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. Meanwhile, Best Buy, Future Shop, Sears, ...
	Playbook sales booming on deep discounts CBC.ca - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Canadian retailers are again selling off Research in Motion's PlayBook tablets at massive discounts and shoppers seem to be eagerly snapping them up. Best Buy, Future Shop, Sears, The Source and Walmart are among the stores selling the tablets at $300 ...
Canadian retailers again selling off RIM's PlayBook at massive discounts CanadianBusiness.com - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Research in Motion's Mike Lazaridis holds the PlayBook on Sept. 27, 2010, in San Francisco. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jeff Chiu TORONTO - Canadian retailers are again selling off Research in ...
Canadian Retailers Cut Price of RIM's PlayBook Tablet Wall Street Journal (blog) - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Retailers in Canada aren't waiting for Black Friday to try to unload their stockpile of unsold PlayBook tablets. Wal-Mart, Staples and Best Buy in Canada are now offering Research in Motion Ltd.'s PlayBook tablets for under $200, ...
BlackBerry PlayBook Black Friday Deal Is Not Enough PCWorld - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Next Thursday is Thanksgiving in the United States, which means that next Friday is Black Friday--the official launch of the holiday shopping season and a day filled with remarkable deals. One of those Black Friday specials ...
BlackBerry PlayBook drops to $199 on Black Friday CBS News - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ (CBS) - Get your camping gear ready, CrackBerry fans. The office retail chain Staples is lowering the price of Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook to $199. The 7-inch 16GB model of the tablet retails for $499, but Staples is taking $300 off the ...
Canaccord cuts RIM target amid Canadian PlayBook fire sale Financial Post - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Following three consecutive days of upgrades for Research In Motion Ltd. shares, Canada's smartphone maker ended an otherwise optimistic week on a sour note. Canaccord Genuity slashed its RIM price target Friday to US$21 per share from US$28. ...
Staples Black Friday Deals Include $199 BlackBerry PlayBook PC Magazine - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ It worked for the HP TouchPad, why not the BlackBerry PlayBook? A sneak peek at the Black Friday deals being offered by Staples shows a huge price drop on Research in Motion's struggling tablet: just $199 for the 16GB version. ...
Black Friday Steal: BlackBerry PlayBook for $199 PCWorld - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Don't buy that $199 Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet just yet, bargain hunters. At least one retailer will sell the 7-inch 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook at the same dirt cheap price of $199 on Black Friday. ...
	Boot up: RIM slashes Playbook price, 'Occupy Flash' movement wants Adobe's ... The Guardian (blog) - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team "The 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models of the device will sell for $199, $299 and $399". It's deja vu all over again. That's a $200 price cut against the initial base price at ...
Fire sale on BlackBerry PlayBook? London Free Press (blog) - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎ While searching for upcoming Black Friday deals, I came across numerous mentions of the 16GB Blackberry PlayBook with Wi-Fi being offered below $200 at Staples stores in the US. After doing a little more digging, I found that they are ...
Remember how the Kindle Fire was going to be a rebadged BlackBerry PlayBook? ZDNet (blog) - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎ My sources tell me that RIM originally outsourced much of the hardware design and production of the PlayBook to mega-ODM Quanta … Amazon's own Kindle group (called Lab 126) apparently opted not ...
BlackBerry Business Users Get 3rd PlayBook Free When Buying 2. Oh, and 'Free ... N4BB - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ BlackBerry Business Users Get 3rd PlayBook Free When Buying 2. Oh, and 'Free' Upgrade to OS 2.0? Research In Motion has been sending out this email to BlackBerry business users. The email is titled 'Move up To More: Buy 2 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets ...
	BlackBerry PlayBook à la early Black Friday PopHerald.com - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ We most certainly didn't see this one coming, despite RIM's slow and dreadfully fast downfall, we've been keeping our hopes up wishing that the Waterloo-based company will survive the demise it's currently going through. It's not Black Friday yet, ...
	Get ready for the BlackBerry PlayBook fire sale Afterdawn.com - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Staples and other major retailers are preparing to fire sale the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tablet this holiday season in an effort to clear out remaining inventory of the unpopular tablet. Starting this afternoon, Staples in Canada will slash $300 off ...
$199 for the 16GB Blackberry PlayBook: Special deal at Staples on Black Friday Examiner.com - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Staples or Research in Motion may be testing the waters for the Blackberry PlayBook tablet to see if they can increase demand for the slow selling product by slashing its price by $300 from $499 to $199. But will hoards of customers come to purchase it ...
BlackBerry PlayBook only $199 on Black Friday Examiner.com - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ If you've been waiting for the right time to get a BlackBerry PlayBook well that time is next Friday. And the place is Staples. As part of their Black Friday sale, Staples will be offering the 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook for $300 less than the retail ...
	BlackBerry PlayBook Slashed Down To $199 Mobile Magazine - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ The HP TouchPad fire sale created quite the fervor and it looks like we're ready for another wave of impulse tablet buying. Several retailers have officially cut the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook by $300. ...
Canadian Retailers Try TouchPad-Esque Fire Sale On RIM's Playbook paidContent.org - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Will a $300 price cut do for RIM's struggling Playbook tablet what it did for HP's defunct TouchPad tablet? Canadian retailers are slashing prices ahead over the weekend in what appears to be an attempt to clear space before the holiday season rush ...
RIM Slashes The Price Of PlayBook To The Same As Amazon's Kindle Fire PadGadget - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ By Lory \| November 18, 2011 \| No comment yet A few months ago, PadGadget wrote about this holiday season's tablet price wars. It looks like Research In Motion (RIM) has started the war off with a bang by offering the 16GB Blackberry Playbook for a mere ...
BlackBerry PlayBook will be $200 on Black Friday IntoMobile - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ If for some odd reason, you've been considering the BlackBerry PlayBook but couldn't pull the trigger just yet, you may as well wait until next week because Staples will be offering Research In Motion's first tablet for $199 during its Black Friday ...
RIM Using PlayBook OS 2.0 Update to Push Current PlayBooks BerryReview - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ by the BerryReview Team on November 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments I just got a new email from RIM pushing their buy two PlayBooks get one free deal for businesses and it had a new twist. RIM is now pushing the fact that you should buy the devices now so you ...
Neverball (MonkeyBall Clone) 3D Game for the BlackBerry PlayBook BerryReview - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ If you were wondering what the native SDK would open up on the PlayBook you now have another answer. First Drodin ported the classic Linux game, Extreme Tux Racer, to the PlayBook. ...
	Staples Fire Sale �" Blackberry PlayBook tablet for $199 PDF Devices - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ Be the first at Staples chain stores whether in Canada or in the US if you want a PlayBook at the cost of Amazon's no-frills Kindle Fire tablet or Barnes & Noble new Nook tablet, or the Kobo Vox tablet, ...
	Blackberry PlayBook Price Reduction Of $300 Signals Trouble Techie Insider - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ The Blackberry PlayBook is where RIM has spent a lot of time trying to transition their business into another area and it has not gone as smoothly as they would have liked things to be. The lack of native Blackberry Mail is still lacking on their 7 ...
	Blackberry Playbook to go on sale for holidays SlashGear - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ RIM hasn't found the success that it expected with the Playbook tablet in any way shape or form. I think most will agree that would be because the tablet was overpriced for the machine to lack the basic features that tablets are expected to have today. ...
	BlackBerry PlayBook on sale, for $300 off on all models Canadian Reviewer - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ eReaders? Bah, get a real tablet! Like RIM's very own BlackBerry PlayBook now being discounted by $300 by a number of retailers like Best Buy, Future Shop and Staples until the 19th. This means that the 64GB model is now cheaper than what the 16GB ...
A Struggling RIM (RIMM) to Slash PlayBook Prices in Canada StreetInsider.com (subscription) - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎ In an effort to spur sales, Research In Motion Limited (Nasdaq: RIMM) has given the go-ahead for a price reduction on its PlayBook tablet PC in Canada. According to sources Friday morning, Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) Canada stores will begin selling the 16- ...
BlackBerry Friday: PlayBook at $300 Off All Things Digital - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎ Soon you'll be able to buy a BlackBerry PlayBook for the same price as Amazon's new Kindle Fire: $199. With the holidays nearly upon us and a stockpile of unsold PlayBooks sitting in inventory, Research in Motion is giving its struggling tablet its ...
RIM slashes PlayBook price The Loop - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎ Big-box retailer Staples will begin a sale on Friday for RIM's PlayBook tablet in the BlackBerry maker's home country of Canada. The 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models of the device will sell for $199, $299 and $399, respectively. According to a photo of an ...