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Apple Really Blacklisting Best Buy Over iPad 2 Sales?

Apr 11, 2011 2:35PM PDT

Last week, there were rumors circulating that Apple was blacklisting Best Buy over concerns about how they were handling their iPad 2 inventory, but Tim Cook supposedly quashed these rumors (see http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/07/rumor-ipad-2-mishandling-gets-best-buy-blacklisted-by-apple/). However, I reserved an iPad 2 with Best Buy (in Dublin, CA) over 30 days ago and am still waiting for it even though the delay on apple.com is only 2-3 weeks. So, I talked with one of their associates today and he said that they had not received any new units in the last 2 weeks! Seems like Apple really might be blacklisting Best Buy.

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