Best Buy Luring Laptop Customers With $149 HP TouchPad Offer

In a somewhat ironic turn of events, the discontinued HP TouchPad has found its way back onto store shelves at Best Buy and batteries-company.com.

Starting Tuesday, customers that buy an HP or Compaq PC from Best Buy retail and Web stores will have the option of picking up a 32GB HP TouchPad for $149. Without a PC purchase, Best Buy is charging $599 for the HP TouchPad, the same price HP originally set before pulling the plug on the product on Aug. 18.

Just before HP killed the TouchPad, AllThingsD reported that Best Buy had taken delivery of 270,000 HP TouchPads but sold less than 10 percent of that figure. The retailer was also pushing HP to take back unsold TouchPads, according to AllThingsD.

Best Buy isn't saying how long the current offer will last, but in an FAQ, the retailer said quantities will be limited. "This is a spot buy of a limited release of TouchPads by HP. These units are first come, first serve and when they're gone, they're gone," according to the FAQ.