"Best Buy is extending its return/exchange policy on the HP TouchPad and all HP TouchPad accessories to 60 days. Come into a Best Buy store and we will help you find another tablet to fit your needs or issue you a refund," .

The early TouchPads were purchased either by gadget enthusiasts or developers, some of whom already owned iPad or Android devices. They were curious to see how webOS would perform, and some were looking for an alternative.

Brent Woodruff, a computer engineer in Tallahassee, Florida, picked up a TouchPad on the first day, but was blind-sided by HP's quick exit from the market. He returned his TouchPad to Best Buy and picked up an iPad 2 in exchange.

Woodruff considered purchasing a Veer smartphone in passing if a good deal popped up, but is glad he did not pick up the phone.

"At $100 or $150 they would be worth it as a developer's toy since I still like the OS. As it is now, with [Apple's] iCloud and iOS coming, and with it bringing many of the features I liked about webOS, and with the Macs already in the household, this made the most sense," Woodruff said in an e-mail interview.