Goldfish11
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Well today is the big ipad 3 launch date. Completely forgot but was passing PC World Coventry this morning at about 10am saw a poster with an ipad on. I needed an other ipad for work so popped into PCWorld/Currys.
Walked in and there was loads of tapped out lanes with "New Product launch queue". Walked in and there was no queue at the end of this area was 6 chaps all standing around chatting. One said "Can I help you" I said "have you got the new ipad in 3G plus wifi in white and 64GB" They said "we have everything!" Walked to counter and paid for it. In and out in 5 minutes.
It turns out they had to get in early and were expecting people to be queuing from 7am. Apparently there was one person there when the store opened to buy an ipad who sat in car to stay warm and never a queue.
So in summary, Go to PC World, don't bother buying in advance on internet from Apple (as it seems you have to wait 2-3 weeks now) or bothering to queue for 30 hours as some chap did. It would have been quicker to get on the train from London to Coventry buy the thing and go home. Total time about 3 hours, My total lead-time 10 minutes including a detour
Walked in and there was loads of tapped out lanes with "New Product launch queue". Walked in and there was no queue at the end of this area was 6 chaps all standing around chatting. One said "Can I help you" I said "have you got the new ipad in 3G plus wifi in white and 64GB" They said "we have everything!" Walked to counter and paid for it. In and out in 5 minutes.
It turns out they had to get in early and were expecting people to be queuing from 7am. Apparently there was one person there when the store opened to buy an ipad who sat in car to stay warm and never a queue.
So in summary, Go to PC World, don't bother buying in advance on internet from Apple (as it seems you have to wait 2-3 weeks now) or bothering to queue for 30 hours as some chap did. It would have been quicker to get on the train from London to Coventry buy the thing and go home. Total time about 3 hours, My total lead-time 10 minutes including a detour