Today Is 1 Sep, Right?

[93terp]

Originally Posted by DNSB

The issue I had with the PM I received was that it did not state that s/he was unable to see what I saw but rather that I could not have seen what I was claiming to have seen. Evidently I am now a lackey of Kobo's Minitrue. No mention whether a paid lackey though...

<insert deity of your choice> knows that we've often enough seen issues with web pages not displaying the same information depending on location and how well edge servers such as Akamai are updating their cached information.

Regards,
David

For the record - the PM you received did not come from me, and my reply to you yesterday was not intended or meant to question/dispute the validity of what you saw on the pre-order page. But the fact that there have been several versions of info on Kobo's H2O pre-order page does not lead me to believe that they are ready for prime time with this product launch.

[JSWolf]

This thread is obsolete as it's not September 1st.

[JSWolf]

I'm going to wait until the H2O is available locally where I will have 30 days to return it.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by 93terp

For the record - the PM you received did not come from me, and my reply to you yesterday was not intended or meant to question/dispute the validity of what you saw on the pre-order page. But the fact that there have been several versions of info on Kobo's H2O pre-order page does not lead me to believe that they are ready for prime time with this product launch.

That I already knew. The person who sent me the PM has since sent one apologizing -- evidently what he wrote was not what he meant to write. Writing in your second language when your body is saying "SLEEP" is not a good idea.

Regards,
David

[93terp]

Originally Posted by DNSB

That I already knew. The person who sent me the PM has since sent one apologizing -- evidently what he wrote was not what he meant to write. Writing in your second language when your body is saying "SLEEP" is not a good idea.

Regards,
David

[93terp]

So it now appears that the H2O is out of stock

Since there's no longer a link available to buy/pre-order, I'm assuming they have already sold out of their entire stock of pre-order units. A bit hard to believe unless this product is even more of a "limited edition" than the Aura HD was intended to be when it was first released.

http://www.kobo.com/kobo-aurah2o.html

However, perhaps others see a completely different status at this link than I'm seeing....

[JSWolf]

In the US, I see the H2O as out of stock.

[clarkent]

Seeing "out of stock", as well.

[robko]

Holy crap! Showing as out of stock in Canada too (on the Kobo website). Chapters still seems to have them available. This thread fortunately prompted me to pre-order yesterday when testing it

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by 93terp

So it now appears that the H2O is out of stock

Since there's no longer a link available to buy/pre-order, I'm assuming they have already sold out of their entire stock of pre-order units. A bit hard to believe unless this product is even more of a "limited edition" than the Aura HD was intended to be when it was first released.

http://www.kobo.com/kobo-aurah2o.html

However, perhaps others see a completely different status at this link than I'm seeing....

Out of stock on Kobo's site here as well. Chapters/Indigo, Future Shop and Best Buy still show it as available. Staples now shows it as coming soon.

Regards,
David

[simond]

Out if stock on the uk section too. Is guess they only allowed a certain number of pre orders.

[Josieb1]

Hopefully that means they know they have a market for it and will get the devices out to the retailers in time for 1st October

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'm going to wait until the H2O is available locally where I will have 30 days to return it.

So you think Best Buy will get them?

[murg]

Originally Posted by PeterT

All that they said was Preorders start on the 1st. At no point did they say 9 AM or 12 PM; just simply the 1st.

I'm sorry but there are some of the community who find ANY excuse to call Kobo incompetent, or to put them down.

Do you guys wonder why it is that no-one from Kobo posts here officially? Simply put it's because of the gigantic amount of fault finding many of you do.

The last time I saw a post like this, I filled a large post with all the incompetent things that Kobo was/wasn't doing.

Kobo has great hardware. They suck, really suck, at software. And that includes their website.

Even something as simple as sorting a list of books on the website isn't possible, even though there is an option for it. Neither can the site limit the books to English books, despite selecting that option. And these bugs have been going on for months and months. Hell, I'd like to be able to limit the search to just a single author, not every book that mentions that author in their short blurb (for readers who like ....), or authors that share a first or last name with the searched author.

As to why the people from Kobo don't post here, I don't know. It may have to do with it being difficult for them to explain things like why, when they have a monthly firmware update cycle, it can take over a month for the firmware to be rolled out to some customers (or at least most of the month).

I'd like nothing better than to not have any excuse to knock Kobo. Kobo, on the other hand, is working tirelessly to negate this possibility.

Please believe me when I say that I'm not taking a dig at you. You have stated a real belief, and I can see your point. I can really see your point. I'm addressing this more generally.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by murg

As to why the people from Kobo don't post here, I don't know.

I don't know - they don't post very often, but Sameer posted here just yesterday.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=169