Yes, folk Amazon did have Wii’s. Quite a few people have already thanked me.

If you went to the site around 5:16 PM, and saw no stock available, then you should have refreshed. Always stick around on a site and refresh. Sometimes my alerts can be faster than the Amazon site in going live. I will spare you the details, just stick around next time and REFRESH!

Also, if you were fortunate enough to get a Wii from Amazon, please unsubscribe from the alerts to open bandwidth for others.

Thank you,
Justin

Holy Comments! It will take me a while to go through these and moderate. There are a lot of dupes in here.

Yes, it was kind of bad with Newegg.com doing this, but it has been done before with other companies. They are just like any other company out there selling bundles. I showed $249.99 on the tracker and in the email, because that is what I saw there on the site. I will take down the price checking for Newegg.com to ensure that I am doing all I can on my end to not lead users into false hopes.

I would just like to state for the record that I have ordered from Newegg.com many times before for computer parts. I basically built my first PC ever from parts delivered by them over 4 years ago. They are a top-notch company for sure. Their customer service and delivery speed is well-known to be one of the best in the business.

In my eyes, they are right up there with Amazon. In fact, if I were Amazon, I might actually think about buying them to cover that end of the business where Amazon lacks.

Justin

All,

My server is under serious stress when it comes to sending emails. I may even limit the number of emails sent in the next few rounds as a result. In order to curb this going forward, all users that have received a Wii, please unsubscribe to aid in others receiving their emails faster. To unsubscribe from emails visit this page and follow the directions:
http://www.nowinstock.net/unsubscribeAlert.php

Thank you and others thank you as well!

Justin

As you can tell Sear’s does have stock showing.

But I think we are bringing the site down just like all my email sending is bringing my site down! Good luck to all!

Well, I am never sure how many are ever available, but it appears Toy R Us was showing stock available in the early morning hours EST. I got the text myself, woke up, and ran to the computer to enter the URL. Sure enough, the tracker was right. Some have already mentioned they got one, but a lot of you said you didn’t. Not much I can say here other than maybe it was a release of canceled orders from a few days back just as Sears usually does. I assume this cause it doesn’t sound like there were that many.

As you may have noticed, the mobile alerts for the Wii are a Beta test at this time. As I state on the Mobile Alerts sign up page, this means that alerts are limited to only a few stores. The only stores that get distributed over the mobile alerts airwaves are Amazon, Best Buy, and Circuit City. I removed Sears from this list when they had their stock issues. If they behave tomorrow, I may add them back.

Since I put the mobile alerts option live, I have accrued about 400+ people following the alerts. I like this and want it to continue. But, what I really want is one of the above stores to release some stock for one last test run. In the initial tests there were some people, including myself, that were not receiving every alert. This is not good, but something we may just have to deal with going forward. I tried to diagnos the problem, but there is no clear answer as to what is causing the issue. All I know is that it is not on my end as every alert is sent to my Twitter account just fine. I have opened a bug report with Twitter in hopes of getting some indication as to why this happens, but response has been lackluster at best.

Once the next alert goes out via mobile, I should get enough feedback from users to understand just how bad the situation is and will decide how to proceed accordingly. So all users that are subscribing to mobile alerts, on the next alert, please come back to the News section here to look for a poll or something so I can better understand how broad the problem really is.

As I am sure a lot of you have noticed, Walmart has been suffering from history anxiety and want their name to dominate my Recent History for the Wii tracker. No, seriously though, this is what I call Walmart Flux. They have the stock, but it just disappears for some unknown reason only to come back and show as in stock a minute or ten later. This happened last year as well, hence why I have already given it a name.

So what should you do? Hang out on the Walmart site and just continue to hit refresh every minute or so. If you do this for 20 minutes and still see no stock, look back at my Wii tracker to see if I saw any during that time. If not, you might want to give it a rest. If I did see stock while you were refreshing there, then you might want to go back and try again for a little while. This is the best I can do for you. I am sure Walmart Flux will continue throughout the holiday season and probably longer. Just another web site glitch we have to deal with just like Sears and their inventory issues.

Just letting all of you know that, yes, Sam’s Club did have Wii’s in stock. I am doing this so that all of you will trust the tracker. There has been some dissent sent my way from people saying that my tracker is crap. Trust me, if there is an error with one of my scripts, I will surely admit it and post the error here.

Screen shot from Sam’s Club showing stock was available:

And once more, hang in there! I know the frustration can be great.

From now on, I will try to post as often as I can to show all you the tracker does work, and you do not get too discouraged. CompUSA did have Wii’s this morning as the tracker showed. In fact, here is a screen shot of what my spiders picked up:

See where it says “Usually Ships In: 1 – 2 Business Days“. While it appears they did have a limited quantity as can be expected from CompUSA, at least they had some.

Hang in there, we will get you a Wii!

All, I just want to let you know that starting later today as soon as Sears fixes their site once again, I will be reactivating Sears once again. However, this time around I am going to cut back on the alert times for just Sears. I typically send out alerts every 4 hours until stock is diminished. Given that it usually takes Sears longer than that to fix their site, I am going to push their specific alerts back to approximately 12 hours. Hopefully they will be able to fix their site within this larger time frame. If it so happens that Sears can’t deal with that time frame, I may push it even further. Time will tell.

Also, it appears that stock is being shown as available every morning. As I stated in my comments on an earlier post, I feel this is related to canceled orders being reintroduced back into the system. I can not control this. It does appear that there are units available in the morning, just a VERY, VERY limited number. I am talking in the single digits. As result of this occurrence, expect that you will receive alerts every day for Sears. And, unless you are up ultra early EST or late PST and act Flash Gordon quick, you will more than likely not be able to get a Wii before the site starts displaying incorrect inventory information.

I am tired of dealing with Sears and do not want to remove it completely from the tracker. I think this new system will work out in the end.

Also, I have removed Sears from the Twitter Beta test as a result. We do not need mobile alerts early in the morning for this limited number of units. I will turn them back on if I feel Sears has corrected the situation to a certain degree.