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I have heard wildly conflicting pictures regarding first day sales of the Zune HD. Lots of people are making statements on blogs and forums, but as we all know, there are lies, damn lies and anecdotal reports.

The above tweet from Microsoft, and many reports I have seen that stores sold out of their stocks of Zune HDs early on, sometimes to just the people waiting in line when the store opened (admittedly, in most cases stores got a dozen or two devices initially) are promising if true.

However, there are conflicting statements out there. A blogger at Geek.com said the Best Buy he went to was empty and the staff didn’t even know they had Zune HDs in stock (or what they were) until the blogger found the box for them in storage. The woman who bought mine for me at a Fry’s in California reported no problems, no shortage and no lines at 10AM (btw, the 32G Zune HD she bought for me is somewhere over the Atlantic on it’s way to Paris from Memphis, and should be in my hands tomorrow).

What’s the truth? Who knows, but I am reminded that Microsoft really ISN’T a hardware company and just isn’t as good at this whole Day of Release Event thing as certain other companies whose name rhymes with Mapple.

Did you buy a Zune HD on the release day (or try to)? If so, comment and tell us your story.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).