BlackBerry PlayBook dropping to only $149.99 for one week at TELUS

It won't be long and they will break in at $99.

But a great deal for someone!!

Doesn't the picture also say that 64Gb is also priced at 149.99? I still can't believe I paid full retail for my 64Gb on launch day. Hey RIM - think about giving some credit to your early adopters rather than only to folks who waited for the price to drop before they buy... I'm sure you can find out who we are from activation data.

Now i REALLY think i should get one.

Yo quiero comprarla ahora mismo, seria super bueno si se pudiera comprar online.

i received the playbook for Christmas and love it. i really can't put it down, small enough to sneak at work too.

I called all the tri cities (kitchener,waterloo,cambridge) telus stores and no one has stock. Wtf?

Just called my local telus store and they have some 32GBs but he couldn't confirm the sale.

Fiiiine ill buy a playbook, you got me RIM lol. Stay tuned for a post of me mounting it in my truck for the ultimate "dvd deck" experience

I'm definately buying another PlayBook I bought my 16GB from the $199 sale now we can get a 32gb for $149.99 wow
It's unreal:) I'm not complaining ill give my 16gb to my family and grab the 32gb I need more memory from all the games I've been installing lmao

It's an indication that RIM is going to announce a brand new redesigned tablet(s) pretty soon. To clear WiFi only stock they had set a deadline of Feb 9th. So, they are going to announce something new and great. This is my guess otherwise there is no rush I can imagine unless they want to boost their top line for this quarter if it is terrible. So it can be either a good news or bad news :-) for investors

uhhh, hello??? it says STARTING at 149 does anyone read anymore?
Telus is not selling the 32GB for 149 it will likely be 199 or something like that. Great deal non the less.

Is this only in-stores?

how many times they said that before???( limited time only, only for one week) and now they droped even chepier!!.. i dont know how many time this will work for them, the only thing i know is this does not look good to me

B@stards.. I have a 16 GB PlayBook that I paid full price for, a 64GB one that I paid $300 for... I want another at $150 for my kids.. or my parents.

Debating if I should buy the 32GB for $150 and sell my friend my 16GB for $100....
Twice as much storage for an extra $50 doesn't sound bad to me...

Some people just want any reason to get angry no matter what the price point.

"Oh I wasted $ getting it early", You say...

Well clearly the Playbook was a mistake to you already even before you purchased it.

Otherwise, this is quite the bargain. Really tempted to pick up a 16gb.

There must be a new PlayBook in the works coming very, very soon!

if i bought a new 32gb playbook, can i transfer my paid apps ( angry birds, fruit&ninja, asphalt 6 etc. )from my current 16GB playbook to my new 32gb playbook, or would i have to re-buy them again?

great news!
thanks for the info everyone!
new 32GB playbook, here i come!

Touchpad?

Duh! I bought 32Gb PB at 250$ instead of 300$ I thought I had a deal... My girlfriend told me, wait the price is going to drop even more...

I'm definitely grabbing one for my wife... and here I thought the $250 I paid for my 32GB was a great deal. LOL! Maybe it'll be $100 by March. :P

got mine in April, used points to get a futureshop card to pay for it, no regrets as i have made good use of it, i'm surprised it's lasted based on how much i use thought it would have burned out by now.

Seems like a great deal, but as it stands now, there's almost ZERO content worth even using the PB for. I can't even use the Browser to watch Netflix. The PB I have at home pretty much just catches dust next to my iPad. Bottom line is apps are the lifeblood of a tablet, and where the PB is concerned this is (still) a barren wasteland. So much potential unrealized.

It's a sad state of affairs with RIM that these things have to be almost given away, and now even more. I'm really pro Canadian and WANT RIM to succeed, but I just think it's too little too late to recover.

There is a piece in Businessweek (current issue) titled "Research in Motion: The Walking Dead?". Basically says when you are a dinosaur it is hard to catch up. I think it is still too soon to write RIM off just yet. You are right though, they need apps bad. They need to focus on working out deals with those core apps everyone is waiting for: Skype, Kindle, Netflix, etc.

RIM ID aproval web page for new bb ID is not working like 2 weeks ago! i already have try to make a new bb id for the past 2 weeks with no succes

WOW.....i really feel bad for all the early adopters 499 to 149
- the patient dog gets the fattest bone-

Wait, so can us in the states buy one?

Hey do you know if they are going to have this sale next week.. I wanted to buy one but sucks that they are only having this sale for a week

The Telus store next to my house has no clue about this "sale". Is this an online thing only ?

I live in the US but my daughter lives in Canada. Does anyone know if I can purchase one of these by phone or online from Telus and ship it to her? I've been on hold with Telus for 18 minutes so far and don't know if they'll ever pick up. Thanks!

Does anyone know if I will be able to buy one since I'm in the US?! Some sites only let you order within that country. I will be all over that sale once it hits! Is there a specific time zone that they are going by, such as CST, EST, PST, MST?

Well I can see that the sale start tmw till the 9th so it start on Friday and end on Thurs that's not fair I wanted to get one but then if its gonna end on thbe 9th won't be possible for me and I have money on the 10th so don't make sence but hope they extend the sale or this price will appear again at other places

Do u think that with Telus selling the PB for $149.99, it would cause RIM to sell it for that same price?!?! Therefore, allowing for people to purchase it from them at the lower price.

Is this for Canada only?

Makes me feel like giving mine away before it becomes worthless.

The good deed would feel good, watching the value plunge to nothing since i got it in october not so much.

Confirmed.

$150 for 16GB and 32GB.
$300 for 64GB

http://www.telusmobility.com/en/ON/blackberry_playbook/index.shtml

this is a straight buy-out, right? no contract needed?

i bought my 16gb playbook on december 28th for$199.00 i am loving it. especially the hdmi port. if u paid full price i'd be bitter too. but this always happens in electronics not only with the playbook.

Lets not loose sight of the fact that this is great for everyone. For folks that don't have a playbook, they are getting one. And for those of us that do have one it puts more playbooks on the street which should translate to more apps, development, etc.

cheers for the web link, its an awesome price for sure. Pity the telus web page is crap for finding the store with any PB in stock, it just find local stores. First one bought yet?

I went to a Telus store this morning and the manager told me that there are none left in Toronto. They didn't have any stock to begin with.

Checked with several stores in Mississauga, no one had any. One guy said it was because "they are not making them anymore". Sad....and so not true for anyone wondering.

Cant promise anything, but no Telus store around had any left. Called Futureshop, and got a price match :) Bought 2 32GB :)

Well its sold out in Ottawa *sigh

Just came from the telus store. There ordering one in for me. Will be here monday. Some guy who was there at the same time ordered 12 lol.

Just tried to find PB at Telus and no go...and in talking with Best Buy and Future Shop they will not price match since the item is 'limited quantities'.

just came back from futureshop and walmart and they wouldn't price match because on the website it says "until supplies last" or something along those lines.

on my way home, i wanted to give it another go at staples and the guy did it for me. but as soon as he said he would, his manager said he couldn't. i politely told him that he just said he would do it, and so the manager honored it, saying that i'd be the last one.

you should try around, you might get lucky.

i'm in toronto, btw.

haha thanks guy for the match price trick!
i went to telus (Montreal) and they said it's out of stock in every montreal telus.
so i just went for fun to futureshop 5min walking from there and asked a seller if price match was possible for the 32gb playbook. he went away then came back few minutes later saying that he is reducing the 32gb to 139$ (with 10% more) :D

I just tried the price match with a Future Shop store in Mississauga ... no go. Wouldn't honour it against "while quantities last".

Not that it will work, but I've removed that from the page and will try taking THAT ad into another FS and see what happens.

No luck finding any of the PB at any Telus store in west Mississauga ...

Just bought one from Walmart. 32 GB for $149.99 then 10% off of that! I tried every store in Victoria BC. No one would price match except Walmart. All the Telus stores were sold out. Also, Telus removed the deal from their site?

Do you guys have the ad telus posted on the website? I can't find it anymore and I was looking to go to London Drugs or Walmart to price match.

Cheers