Hello all, this is Justin, the man behind the curtain over here at NowInStock.net. Aside from running NowInStock.net, I like to consider myself a professional shopper who is enamored with a great deal. And when I see deals, sometimes I like to use NowInStock.net as my forum to alert users and to aid in supporting NowInStock.net so it continues to remain FREE for all of you.

Father’s Day is coming up on June 17th, and while I am not father, I am old enough to love most of the items that other fathers typically enjoy or make them feel manly.

Currently, Amazon is running a Bosch-sponsored Sale Event where you can receive  $20 off of $100 or $40 off of $200+ with an order of Bosch items. When you add enough Bosch items to your cart, you will see the aforementioned savings reflected at the final checkout as Promotional Savings.

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We have just updated the “alarm” notification system on NowInStock.net. This is inclusive of the tracker alarms as well as Browser Alerts. The new implementation eliminates the need for Flash replacing it with HTML5 <audio>.

What does this mean?

It means that in order to have the alarms working, you must have an HTML5 based browser where the <audio> tag is supported. The good news is all modern and up-to-date browsers should support this including Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Chrome, Opera, and Safari. Also, all modern an up-to-date mobile browsers should work as well, including Firefox on Android, Browser on Android (2.3.5+), Safari on iOS (3.2+), and Blackberry (6.0+). This new implementation is gentler to processing needs as there is no longer a need for the Flash Player.

I Used to Hear Alarms, But No More… Please Help!

The bad news is for those of you still running legacy browsers. These include any browser prior to the above mentioned working browsers. We could have implement a joint approach to this using Flash for legacy browsers, however, you should be running the latest browsers for security purposes plus the fact that we prefer to make our site quick as possible eliminating any unnecessary scripts such as browser checking. In order to get the alarms working, just make sure to update your browsers to the latest versions available.

If you cannot upgrade to the most recent browser, such as IE9 because you are still running Windows XP, then you should use Google Chrome or Firefox instead. Or,you should check into acquiring a new PC. Review our Deals section.

If you have any further questions, please contact us.

Over the past 11 hours, since the official release of Diablo III, we have seen the elusive Collector’s Edition stock become available at two major retailers. Target had the first stock available at 12:00 AM EST, with a decent showing of inventory that lasted just under an hour. Then, GameStop, at 9:26 AM EST, showed its hand with a barrage of inventory that lasted just over a half hour before the listing was removed from their site.

If you are one of those still holding out for the Diablo III Collector’s Edition, things are looking up. For how long, no one really knows other than Blizzard. But we suspect more inventory might show up over the next few hours, or even days.

First, head over to our Diablo III Collector’s Edition Tracker and see if stock is available. If no stock is available, and you want to be alerted as soon as we see inventory in stock and available for purchase, then be sure to register with NowInStock.net to receive our FREE in stock alerts!

If you are unfamiliar with NowInStock.net, we are a completely FREE web service that tracks the availability of hard-to-find items, such as Diablo III Collector’s Edition. We monitor multiple retailer sites at once giving you a selection of retailers to choose from. Register for an account for FREE, add the items you want alerted on, and as soon as we see your items in stock and available for purchase, we alert you via email, TXT, desktop alerts, or browser alerts. We have helped tens of thousands of users get the items they want, and you could be next.

After a short two month break, B&H Photo in stock item tracking is now fully active once again. Be sure to check the trackers you are following to see if there are any B&H Photo items active that you are not subscribed to and add them to your list. Obviously, any camera items are being tracked, but B&H also sells tablets among other electronics. Hopefully we can keep tracking active for many, many months to come!

Here is a list of trackers where B&H Photo items were disabled, but are now active again:

• Nikon D800
• Nikon D4
• Canon 5D Mark III
• ASUS Transformer Prime

Following on the heals of the recently announced Nvidia GTX 680, Nvidia ups the ante a little further with the introduction of the GTX 690. With two chips on one board, these cards will be advantageous to those who like to keep their desktop boxes small, but packed with power. And with all new, hot items comes a new in stock tracker. We have just completed the setup of a new GTX 690 In Stock Tracker. Being a pre-release in stock tracker, ensure that when you subscribe to items you enable pre-order alerting. All items at launch are just preliminary/generalized items which will be replaced in the future with the first found product of the GTX 690 line at the specified retailer. GTX 690 release date is currently listed at May 3rd 2012.

Looking to get your hands on the latest Canon Rebel, well then we have got the deal for you. The Canon Rebel T3i Body is on sale at J&R for the very low price of $599.88 with FREE Shipping! Hurry this deal expires on March 4th, 2012. Don’t think this is a deal? Here are some other stores for you to compare prices with:

Adorama – $749.99
Amazon – $624.95
B&H Photo – $624.99

To take advantage of this deal, please click the following link: J&R – $599.88

UPDATE: The server transition is complete! All services are now active again. If you happen to notice anything that doesn’t look correct or isn’t functioning properly, please send us a note. We appreciate your patience during this transition.

We’re almost done! Going on 25 hours, but we are now getting somewhere. Hopefully everything will be finished this evening. Currently we are easing the spiders back into motion and working on the alerts side of things.

How long will it last?

Not sure. This is the first major transition we have had to make since 2007. If we could have avoided the move, we would have, but the server we are currently running on is just too old and a bit lacking in the memory department. Increasing the memory footprint should allow our spiders to run much more efficiently while handling larger volumes of traffic and email deliveries more smoothly. (Fingers crossed.)

There will be a warning header on the old server. This header will exist on the old server throughout the transition. When this header is gone, you will know you are now on the new server.

What does this impact?

During the transition, we will lock down all account and registration capabilities. This will ensure that any changes made will be made on the correct server. It is best to just come back tomorrow if you need to make account changes or register with NowInStock.net after the aforementioned time.

Also, during this transition, you might see incorrect stock data on the site depending on which server you are currently viewing. We will try to minimize this as much as possible.

In the end, we just hope everything goes smoothly. (Hands interlocked.)

Canadian Tracking is live once again for those you who may have missed it. To see what items we are currently tracking in Canada, visit the Canadian NowInStock section of the site, which can always be accessed via the flag in the upper right, or via the url NowInStock.net/ca/.

As always, I implore all Canadians to start making the site more useful by suggesting products to be tracked. I have a hard enough time monitoring the US for all the hard-to-find products out there, let alone the UK & Canada too. This site is driven by user suggestions, so start making some for those hard-to-find Canadian items.

This Holiday Season has proven to be one of the most rewarding in recent memory. We were able to help so many users get their LeapPad Explorers and other hot items. And, the amount of positive feedback and praise received was phenomenal. I would say this year was second only to the 2007-08 year when the Nintendo Wii was extremely hot.

With that said, I hope all subscribers that were able to achieve success, and even those that may have missed out, remember we will be here all year long for anything else you may have trouble finding, plus next year for the hot items of the 2012 holiday season. We have a lot on the plate as far as development goes and we are sure a lot of you will like these changes.

So until next time, NowInStock.net is wishing all a safe and Happy Holiday Season, hopefully with many children’s faces sporting wide smiles with help from NowInStock.net.

All LeapPad Explorer Subscribers who have orders in at Target

It has been reported to NowInStock.net that users who were able to order a LeapPad Explorer through Target, on or after December 9th (maybe earlier, not able to confirm), that your orders MAY be in jeopardy of not being delivered by Christmas.

Wendy, a user of the NowInStock.net who was able to place here order on December 9th, has informed me she received and email from Target yesterday (December 16th) “stating that I might not receive the Leappad until sometime in January.” Previously, I was reported by another user that had called Target, when she couldn’t order online, and she was told they were “800 behind in delivery.” This latest information from Wendy appears to confirm that Target is indeed having order fulfillment issues and has taken on more orders than they might be able to deliver on before Christmas. This is horrible news, and I am as disappointed with the situation as the unfortunate out there.

As a result, I am disabling all LeapPad Explorer tracking for Target. This in reality comes as no surprise. Ever since this past summer when Target took full control of their own website (Amazon used to run/manage their website), they have been plagued with issue after issue (This is well documented, just look at these results). And, it appears that taking on a massive amount of orders in a very short span of time is another one of those issues.

I ordered from Target, what should I do?

If you are one of the users who was able to place an order from Target on or after December 9th, and have not received any type of shipment notice or tracking number, I highly suggest you confirm your order is indeed shipping. Call Target and get a status on your order number.

If you turn out to be one of the unlucky ones, then don’t lose faith yet. This past week there has been a decent amount of inventory being offered up at a variety of online retailers. Amazon, TRU, and Walmart have all offered up large inventories of LeapPad Explorers which lasted longer than most runs in the past. And, since December 9th, we have added a few new TRU Bundles as well as LeapFrog Store Bundles. You need to make sure these items are added to your account so you can be alerted on them.

I also urge any subscriber to read the following note that will potentially increase your chances at getting that LeapPad Explorer:
http://www.nowinstock.net/itemtoohot.php

Visit the following link to verify your account has all the latest items added to it:
http://www.nowinstock.net/toys/leapfrog/setalerts.php

Hopefully over the course of the next 5 days the last bit of inventory will rear its head and those unfortunate ones will still be able to get their hands on a last minute LeapPad Explorer.

Good luck all!