I wanted to shed some light on the recent alerts that have gone out for Amazon for both the Wii and Wii Fit. These units have indeed been in stock, just not that many at a given time. These are most likely the result of canceled orders from Amazon or customer cancels. When the units are released back into the system, there are very few units in stock. As a result, my spiders pick up that stock, but by the time the majority of you get the alert and make it to the site, the stock is already gone and it looks like I am throwing errant alerts. This is not the case.

Every time I spider a page and see stock available, I store a cached snapshot of the page to ensure I am not throwing these errors. Below you can see the most recent cached snapshots for both the Wii and Wii Fit. Also, when it comes to the Wii, Target has been selling Wii’s through Amazon, but when they do, they only release about 5 or less at any given time. This was the cause a week or two back when Amazon Wii alerts were going nuts.

Wii cached page w/Target as seller from yesterday the 28th of August:

Wii Fit cached page from today the 29th of August:

Again, this is just part of the tracker business. Remember, you are using the trackers as a backup to normal Wii and Wii Fit hunting so limit your expectations, but at the same time remember we have been successful for thousands of people.

Hang in there, NowInStock.net will get you one!
Justin

I have just completed the addition of mobile TXT alerts for the Wii Fit Tracker via Twitter. To sign up for these alerts, please visit the Twitter Alerts page for all the instructions. For those of you already familiar Wii mobile alerts of the past, login to your Twitter account and follow “NISWiiFit” within Twitter to receive the alerts. Do not forget to “turn on” Device Enabled under your Following list.

For less internet savy people, Twitter is a web service/micro blogging platform I use to send out mobile alerts to users. By creating an account at Twitter, entering your mobile phone number, and following my Wii Fit account at Twitter (NISWiiFit) you will be able to receive TXT alerts whenever the Wii Fit becomes available. If this is your first time using Twitter, or need a refresher, please read ALL the instructions on the Twitter Alerts page.

PLEASE NOTE: Not all stores are set up to be alerted via mobile alerts. Only those marked within the tracker with a “()” after them will be sent via mobile alerts. This helps limit the number of messages you receive.

Yes, they did have Wii Fit in stock earlier this hour. It only last a few minutes, 7 or so to be near exact, but they did have stock. This was what I captured from my cache, click to enlarge the image:

As some of you may have already noticed from the grotesque notice at the top of each page, the Wii Fit Tracker is now live. I have added a decent amount of stores to the list. Nothing to extreme. These are all of the places that will give me a commission on sales of the units, so please use the links.

Since there is only one model at this time, which is White, I have labeled the models as White. (“A” for Creativity, huh?) I am not sure why they made a product that you put your feet on white other than the obvious being the console is white, but I can’t imagine this thing staying clean long. This based on the notion that kids will be playing outside in the yard only to come in and place their grassed-stained feet on it. Before long, I envision a mess. This is why i am recommending that you also pick up one of the Silicone Sleeves to help protect it. I see the Clear version is being released on June 12th, but the Pink and Blue are supposedly available. However, at Amazon it still says preorder regardless of which color you select. Go figure!

In closing, let’s get a Wii Fit for all of you! Visit the tracker and sign up to email alerts on the left.

Justin

Yes, you heard it correctly, Nintendo has decided they need to take one more step to further ensure that Wii Remote doesn’t fly out of your hand. Costing Nintendo a reported $18 Million dollars to ship these silicon jackets to all current Wii owners; I find this a small price to pay for potential future lawsuits. The “jacket”, as it is called, will aid people in keeping that slippery Wii Remote from flying out of your pizza-grease ladened hands and smashing your television or cracking someone in the head.

Order your free Wii Remote “Jackets” now before the rush begins. The jackets have already begun shipping in the latest hardware shipments, so some you may never even need to worry about this.

After failing straps at the initial release, Nintendo has taken it one step further with this move and shows what class they really do have.

Amazon is now taking preorders for the upcoming Wii Fit. Slated to arrive on January 1, 2008, it would be wise to get in line now by placing your order ASAP as the holiday season approaches. Once the holiday season heats up, I can guarantee you this is going to be one of the hottest Wii accessories of the year. Get your Wii Fit preorder now!

Also, we are tracking the Wii Fit within the Wii Accessories page.

Nintendo announced two new accessories coming out soon. Each of them are pretty cool too!

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Sorry about the errors on this, I have made the necessary adjustments and we should be good to go now.