Best Buy Mobile to sell the Palm Pre as the exclusive retailer?

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According to a “credible source” at WebOSArena, Best Buy Mobile will be the exclusive retailer for the Palm Pre when it is launched. If you are a Pre early adopter, you will have to either go to Best Buy or Sprint directly to get your hands on this much anticipated phone. Sprint partners will be put on the back burner for 60 days while they wait for Sprint to finally send some Palm Pre’s their way. Though still very much an unconfirmed rumor, there is a precedent for such an arrangement. Sprint launched the Samsung Instinct with Best Buy Mobile as the exclusive retailer last June and Best Buy Mobile saw record sales for the two weeks following the phone’s launch. If this rumor pans out, it is good news for Best Buy Mobile; not so good for Sprint’s partners who once again may be getting slightly cold leftovers.

[Via Phone Arena]

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35 Comments
  • Ron

    @Don Louie,

    Same here. I hope this phone turns out good, and I honestly hope that it doesn’t get anymore hype than it already has, because if people hype this thing too much then that’s going to add to people’s disappointment with the phone. I personally doubt a lot of people will be disappointment but still it’ll put off lots of potential buyers.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • backbeat

    ^So you’ve never had any version of a smartphone. Thanks for clearing that up, bitchboy. :)

  • Don Louie

    Since Best Buy will be selling it you can, with certainty, say it’ll be cheaper with them because all rebates are instant with them.

  • backbeat

    Just remember that with all things-Palm, when the phone stops working, as every generation does, you have to return the brick directly to Palm . BestBuy wants no part of Palm’s churn-rate.
    :)

  • Don Louie

    You don’t like Palm, we get it. Best Buy isn’t a repair center so why would you take a malfunctioning phone to them instead of an authorized repair center.

  • backbeat

    Your little shill charade on Sprint/Palm’s behalf is what is not ‘liked’, Oh-Great_&_Powerful_Shill. You insult every principled person with your every keystroke.

    For someone who has stated that you’ve never owned a Palm before, you are certainly clear on BestBuy’s relationship with them. Retail, eh, bitchboy?

    Fuck you.

    Ya get what ya give.
    :)

  • Don Louie

    Best Buy is not a repair center for phones, that has nothing to do with the companies relationship.

  • backbeat

    Thanks for exposing even further your lack of even the most fundamental business acumen. One has everything to do with the other. Your little cubicle-mind can’t fathom how business is actually conducted at high levels.

    Right, Retail-Bitchboy?

    Fuck you.
    :)

  • Don Louie

    Best Buy will be offering the best price so I’ll take baby mamma there to get her’s

  • Resistance

    You may be right on the money. A new business model needs to be developed for distribution.

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