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Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« on: October 10, 2013, 10:33:03 am »
I would like to make an extensive review of the HP Prime capabilities and bugs. Can anyone send me an HP Prime sample, please?
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Thank you,

The idea is: place here your real address details (if you dare), and wait...  Let's check if we're handling with real sensible calc sellers. We never know, this might be a good deal for HP?
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2013, 12:27:05 pm »
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2013, 12:27:49 pm »
This seems a bit presumptive to assume that HP will send calculators to semi random people who post on omnimaga.
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2013, 12:36:17 pm »
This is a very odd topic...
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2013, 01:51:09 pm »
Wait, your email ends in Omnimaga.org ? O.O
Also this is in humor and jokes so yeah...
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2013, 01:54:30 pm »
Please send me one million dollar, HP and I will post a nice article about your newest calculator on my website.
PM me for my paypal account.
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2013, 01:57:56 pm »
FYI, other such reviews have been published, and loads of bugs and limitations have already been unearthed (even if, of course, the calculator does have excellent aspects).
« Last Edit: October 10, 2013, 01:58:33 pm by Lionel Debroux »
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2013, 02:05:02 pm »
Quote from: Streetwalker on October 10, 2013, 01:51:09 pm
Also this is in humor and jokes so yeah...
LOL i didn't see that XD
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Re: Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2013, 06:47:49 pm »
Lol nice one. This would be funny if this actually worked, though.
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2013, 06:51:41 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 10, 2013, 06:47:49 pm
Lol nice one. This would be funny if this actually worked, though.
Thanks!

Judging from some of the previous replies (except for Streetwalker's) i guess i wasn't very successful, so here's a little explanation.

I was just trying to make a joke, to stir up the atmosphere a little bit! At the same i've tried to pass on some basic (subliminal) thoughts, such as:
Why isn't Prime available worldwide with roughly the same price tag (hence the roaming tax)?
Why does HP collect free usage feedback from forums and doesn't give anything in return (i don't think it's a fair deal)?

Of course, IMO it is theoretically possible for HP to pick a *sample* of users and (yeah, almost randomly) distribute some Prime samples (specially considering this is a first release). That's *not* something unusual at all.

That was about it, i gather. Next time, i'll try not to joke. I like jokes, it helps me feeding my brain. I don't think i've offended anyone, though. :P

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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2013, 10:22:40 pm »
I think the issue is that HP is American and it probably costs more to sell stuff overseas. In addition to that, certain markets are probably much smaller, which won't help price tags and availability. Almost everything in Europe costs much more than in USA (in many cases, if the MSRP in USA is $149.99, then it will be 149.99 euros in Europe). In Australia it's even worse. I remember that proprietary Super Nintendo games were around $100 USD in Australia back then, while in Canada and USA they were around $70 USD.
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2013, 09:33:36 am »
just look at how expensive knex is in germany compared to the us x.x

(but leave out the fact that it is ultra-cheap in the netherlands, lol)
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2013, 05:33:28 pm »
Yeah I wonder what's with cheap stuff in the Netherlands. Keoni could easily grab 10 copies of Conker Bad Fur Day for $1 bundled together anywhere.

As for the HP Prime IIRC there were places that sold it for like $120 in USA. In my case I got it for $130 from Hpcalc.org, although shipping to Canada was ridiculously expensive ($55 including extra fees, that might be just the taxes).
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Re: Please send me an HP Prime sample for review (no roaming taxes please!)
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2013, 12:30:47 am »
Dutch people liek cheap stuff.
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« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2013, 03:13:01 am »
i think we all do :P
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