RIM selling Blackberry Playbook to employees for $99

It seems that RIM is doing something nice for their employees this festive season by allowing them to purchase the Blackberry Playbook at $99. This is $100 less than what RIM is currently offering in the market, and if you were wondering how does this affect you, well the good news is that RIM is allowing their employees to purchase up to 8 Blackberry Playbook tablets each.

What this means is that undoubtedly there will be a handful of enterprising RIM employees who will purchase the tablet at the specially offered price and start selling them slightly marked up on eBay and such. If that were to happen, we don’t expect these tablets to go beyond the $199 retail price which means that you should probably keep an eye out on eBay and similar sites if you’re looking for a bargain.

The $99 will be referring to the 16GB Blackberry Playbook, while the 32GB and 64GB models will go for $149 and $199 respectively.