Sprint Sees Pre Shortages, But Maybe Not On First Day
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If you want a Palm Pre, you may want to go get it this Saturday. Sprint’s president of business market groups, Paget Alves, said today that “there will not be shortages immediately, but eventually this product will end up being constrained” – that’s sales-speak for stores running out before they’re resupplied.
“This is like the [Nintendo] Wii for us,” Alves said.
We’ve been hearing contradictory things about Palm Pre shortages for the past few weeks; a few weeks ago, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse gave a dire prediction of shortages of units.
Alves’ assessment was more nuanced. He said that any shortages will clear up “sooner” than “months,” and that Sprint is distributing devices to stores based on sales volume. He declined to predict exactly when the shortages would ease up, or how many Pres Sprint would sell.
“You can’t predict when the constraints will lift. It’s just a function of finding that intersection point between supply and demand,” he said.
Customers who aren’t able to pick up a Pre will be able to sign up on a waiting list online to be informed when it’s available at their nearest store, Alves said.
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