Planning to give an iPod for X-mas? Hope you got it already
Because they are pretty much all gone.
Even we are out of them - you can buy one but it will not arrive before christmas.
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Some stores are struggling to keep up with the demand of Apple Computer Inc.'s hot-selling iPod music player.
The colorful 4-gigabyte iPod Mini and the 20-gigabyte iPod are sold out at Amazon.com. Supplies at Circuit City stores keep running out as soon as new shipments arrive every few days.
Shoppers at Best Buy Co. Inc.'s online store are also out of luck on most iPod models, but that's because Best Buy is giving priority of the inventory they do have for shoppers at retail stores, said Brian Lucas, a spokesman for the nation's largest electronics retailer. Most of the chain's physical stores should still have iPods in stock, though maybe not the exact color or model shoppers want. He recommended consumers call around to first check which stores may have the models they're seeking.
"It's one of the most in-demand electronics gift for the holidays," Lucas said. "So if you're thinking about getting an iPod for somebody, don't wait till Christmas Eve."
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Planning to give an iPod for X-mas? Hope you got it already
Because they are pretty much all gone.
Even we are out of them - you can buy one but it will not arrive before christmas.
[link|http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/10432831.htm?1c|http://www.mercuryne...a/10432831.htm?1c]
Some stores are struggling to keep up with the demand of Apple Computer Inc.'s hot-selling iPod music player.
The colorful 4-gigabyte iPod Mini and the 20-gigabyte iPod are sold out at Amazon.com. Supplies at Circuit City stores keep running out as soon as new shipments arrive every few days.
Shoppers at Best Buy Co. Inc.'s online store are also out of luck on most iPod models, but that's because Best Buy is giving priority of the inventory they do have for shoppers at retail stores, said Brian Lucas, a spokesman for the nation's largest electronics retailer. Most of the chain's physical stores should still have iPods in stock, though maybe not the exact color or model shoppers want. He recommended consumers call around to first check which stores may have the models they're seeking.
"It's one of the most in-demand electronics gift for the holidays," Lucas said. "So if you're thinking about getting an iPod for somebody, don't wait till Christmas Eve."
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
