Late yesterday evening, OneCall was the first to release inventory of the new Canon Rebel T3i Kit. Yes, Kit only of course. I am sure the Body only units will take some time. With the Kits coming in at $899, this camera doesn’t seem like it is going to be anywhere near as hot as the T2i was. The upgrades from the T2i model are few, but the LCD size increase is nice, however, the remote flash is almost forgettable at this level. This begs the question… where does this leave the Canon 60D? Aside from a slight increase in FPS when shooting continuous mode, with the 60D at 5.3 frames per second (fps) and the T3i at 3.7 fps, there are no real differences between the two cameras. For $100 more your get a nearly 2 more frames of capture per second! Is the 60D being phased out or replaced? I guess only time will tell.

If by the time you come across this post all stock at OneCall is gone, then be sure to check out our Rebel T3i In Stock Tracker. Register for a FREE account and add items to your account for free in stock notifications!

This post is a little off the sites intent, but I myself am a bit of a tool nut. I have developed a script that lets me know when certain items are in stock and more importantly at a stellar price. Someday this script/app will hopefully become available for all to help save  a few bucks.

At any rate, here is the deal. While watching the DeWALT DC827KL 18-Volt 1/4-inch Lithium Ion Impact Driver Kit with NANO Technology over at Amazon, I noticed that it was at its all-time low price of $279! If you have been waiting to purchase an impact driver for a good deal, then this might just be your one shot to get in on this item for quite some time to come. the average price for this impact driver is $300-330, so you are saving approximately $20-50 if you buy today. Head over to Amazon and check it out for yourself.

The much anticipated, Photokina 2010 show-stealing, Fujifilm X100 available for pre-order once again! It was a while back on February 8th when pre-orders for the X100 were first available, but they quickly disappeared. Wait no more, you can place your pre-order once again to ensure your place in line for this super-hot camera. Place your pre-order at Amazon now.

Free In Stock Notifications

If by chance you come upon this post after the pre-orders have been removed, don’t fret. Just register with NowInStock.net, add the Fujifilm X100 to your items, and we will alert you whenever we see the X100 in stock or available for pre-order again. It is a FREE service. If you would like to see what the current status of inventory on the X100 is, then venture over to our Fujifilm In Stock Tracker.

If you are one of the many looking to purchase the Nikon D7000 Body, then you are in luck. At the time of writing this post, Amazon has the D7000 Body In Stock! To enhance this event even more, you can get some serious lens savings if you purchase the D7000 from Amazon along with select lenses. You can save up to $400 on select lenses. Visit this page to see all of the lens combo savings opportunities and get the proper Amazon promo codes.

Deal Expired.

If you are interested in getting your hands on an Android Tablet, it appears that Archos and Amazon want to clear some space from their virtual shelves with a stellar Android table deal today. Today the Gold Box Deal of the Day is the Archos 5 – 500GB Android tablet with a 4.8″ TFT LCD touch screen. With massive space, this tablet is sure to store enough of your videos and music. And today, this Archos 5 tablet can be had for only $239! Purchase this tablet from Amazon now.

If you are interested in waiting, or looking for the latest Android tablets, then make sure to visit our Android Tablet tracker. We are sure you will something hot and edgy there to appease your needs. Don’t forget, if the tablet in the tracker is out of stock, then make sure to sign up for our FREE in stock alerts!

If you are one of the thousands looking to find a new Nintendo 3DS, well you have a little more longer to wait. The official release date of the 3DS is March 27th, 2011 in USA/North America. Until then, you do have the option to pre-order the 3DS. At NowInStock.net, we are tracking a variety of retailers already taking pre-orders. To place a pre-order now, head over to the Nintendo 3DS Tracker.

If you are one of those that would prefer to wait and pick up their system once the 3DS officially releases, then you have the option to sign up for our FREE in stock alerts. Once we see stock available for purchase at the retailers we track and you have selected, we will send you an email alerting you.  To receive the FREE in stock alerts, register for a free account, then add the Nintendo 3DS items you want alerted on. That’s it. We are currently tracking Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. If stock becomes hard to find after launch, we will add more retailers. To see our current list of retailers, visit the 3DS tracker.

Word on the street is Nintendo 3DS is highly anticipated, and pre-ordering may be the wisest option. However, given that the launch date is at the end of March and not near Christmas, inventory MIGHT hang around. Unfortunately, only time will reveal the popularity of  the 3DS.

Wow! We went from a near barren virtual shelf to a packed shelf with 24 consecutive hours of Kienct being in stock at Amazon. If anyone out there is still having trouble finding a Kinect in stock, then they aren’t looking in the right places… ughhhmm… NowInStock.net! The next question becomes… will this last major shipment to Amazon be the last for some time, or will the item be everywhere you look after the holidays. I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft to have planned it this way to build hype during the holiday season, but a few things speak to me to contradict such a scheme.

One, the Kinect has been receiving pretty decent reviews. Everywhere I look, I am seeing 4-5 stars for ratings. Granted this could be Xbox 360 fanboys, but it should equate out to be less than than 4-5 stars if there was truly something wrong with the device. Even fanboys can’t push ratings whenever a device is flawed.

Two, Micrsoft has sold a lot of Kinects. According to reports, they have sold over a million units within the first 10 days alone. That is a hefty amount of devices to be shelling out, especially for a $150 item.

Third is the amount of money spent in producing Kinect. We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars spent, and why would Microsoft shun anyone from trying to buy the unit. They have a lot of money that needs to be recouped in order to break even. If each unit reportedly costs $56 dollars to make, and they are selling the unit for $150, then they are well on their way to already being profitable.

If you are one those out there still looking for Kinect, check out our Kinect Tracker. If stock isn’t available, then sign up for our FREE in stock alerts. We will try our hardest to help you find one fast. Better than driving around town looking.

Well this holiday season is turning out to be one that will put some smiles a lot of little faces out there. Amazon just released a new stock of Microsoft Kinect’s about an hour ago. If you are still looking for Kinect, then head over to our Kinect In Stock Tracker and see if stock is still available. If not, then register for the FREE in stock alerts, and we will notify you when the items you want alerted on come in stock.

Kinect Tracker

As stated in the opening, Kinects this season still remain somewhat elusive, but the inventory still keeps flowing in weekly. This season has been really kind to the users of NowInStock.net and we hope to continue the trend going forward to help put more smiles on those little faces this season. If you know anyone still looking for a Kinect, make sure you send them to NowInStock.net and the Kinect Tracker. Also tell them to sign up for the FREE alerts!

New Android Tablet Tracker

This past weekend we added a new Android™ Tablet In Stock Tracker. The much anticipated ARCHOS 101 tablet has been a little elusive not to mention the barrage of other Android tablets coming down the pipes. If you are interested in picking up any of these new ARCHOS tablets, then make sure you sign up for the FREE alerts. Also, if there are any other hard-to-find Android tablets out there we are not tracking, then by all means send in your suggestions.

Contacting NowInStock.net – Contact form down for past week

No, we weren’t ignoring you! In an effort to fight our in stock alert emails from getting denied by SPAM filters, we made a few changes to our server last week. As a result of these changes, we found out our contact form suffered an error which we were unaware of. So, if you tried to contact us in the past week via our contact form, we didn’t get your message unfortunately. Please resend any messages you might have sent, we want to hear what you have to say!

Wow, I was wrong… in the weekly update I was thinking this Friday would be the next day the Kinect stock would arrive. It is Wednesday and we have stock available already! Now we just more of those 250GB Xbox Kinect Bundles to show up.

If you are still looking for a Microsoft Kinect, then make sure to head over to the Kinect In Stock Tracker to see if stock is still available. If stock is no longer available, then make sure to sign up for the FREE in stock alerts. Stock will more than likely be available next week at the current rate we are seeing.

I must also commend Amazon on their new purchase policy regards to hot items. They are really cracking down on resellers. While I know NowInStock.net has reseller subscribers, this was never the intention of creating the site. It was to help regular consumers acquire the hot items without overpaying. Plus, for NowInStock.net to identify resellers would require the gathering of more personal information which is never a good thing. As a result, we always felt the power to control these resellers was the retailers themselves. This time around their purchase policy seems to really affect the resellers ability to purchase multiple units and hence inventory is lasting longer. Now all of you can get your Kinects in a more timely manner at a respectable price.

Time for the weekly tracker updates so all of our users remain informed.

Tracker Updates

This past week we had some serious stock arrive. Thank you to all of those users that have subscribed and continue to promote NowInStock.net. We try our damnedest to make sure that everyone of our subscribers gets what they are looking for in a timely manner, but of course this is also dictated by the retailers and their inventories.

Kinect Tracker

As suspected last week, Kinect stock is diminishing rapidly… even the Kinect bundles are going fast. This past Friday though, we saw a really nice unbundled Kinect offering from Amazon and really hope this trend continues this Friday. Why this Friday… well from our collected data, it appears that there is another shipment expected to arrive from Microsoft to the Amazon warehouses this Friday. Last week, the 250GB Xbox Kinect Bundle was available for preorder from Amazon with an expected shipment on December 11th, then another shipment was noted a day later for release on December 12th. From this, we could infer that sometime later this week we can expect some form of shipment from Microsoft… could there be more Kinects on the same truck? Remember this is pure speculation, only Amazon and Microsoft know when the next set of Kinects are expected to arrive, heck I bet Amazon doesn’t even know, hence why there are not pre-orders for the Kinect. If you are still looking for a Kinect, then be sure to visit our Kinect In Stock Tracker and sign up for the FREE in stock alerts.

Xbox 360 Tracker

If you read the above Kinect update, then you will see that there was some pre-order action going on last week for the 250GB Kinect Bundles at Amazon. Also, we had a stellar inventory of 4GB Kinect Bundles being offered from Amazon, that sold out in a slow enough manner that allowed a lot of you to get your hands on one. We hope this trend continues with a little more solid offerings on the 250GB Kinect Bundles instead of just pre-orders. If you are one of the subscribers in the market for a 250GB Kinect Bundle, please remember you will need to be really fast. This is the particularly hot model and inventory will fly off the virtual shelves. Visit the Xbox 360 Tracker for current stock statuses.

Nikon D7000 Tracker

The Nikon D7000 Body continues to elude us. While supplies of the Nikon D7000 Kit continue to remain in stock a variety of online retailers. While earlier this morning no one had stock of even the Kits, Best Buy was sure to replenish its stock by this afternoon. Kits from OneCall and Vann’s seem to have be cleaned out, but may return soon as well. But where are those Body Only D7000’s everyone wants? Looking for a Nikon D7000, then visit the tracker.

Monster High and Lalaloopsy Trackers

Both of these toys continue to have high demand with extremely low inventories. We think a lot of the retailers are pushing more inventory to their brick and mortar stores rather than to their online stores. Visit each respective tracker and sign up for FREE alerts: Monster High Tracker & Lalaloopsy Tracker

New Trackers

NVIDIA GTX 580 Tracker Launched

This morning we added a new tracker for the NVIDIA GTX 580. Inventory on the latest release of video cards from NVIDIA seems to be holding up well compared to last year’s GTX 480 release. While there is a stock available from across the many lines of video cards manufacturers, stock is still limited and there is a chance with the holidays that it will all vanish. It is clear that last years limited supply was truly dependent on the the release of DirectX 11. This year the GTX 580 cards are just upgrades to those initial 480 cards. We added the tracker just to make sure we had our bases covered in case the card demand starts to out strip inventories.

Side Notes

B&H Photo Tracking Live

B&H Photo tracking is live once again. You can Custom Track the items you want from B&H or Amazon, or select B&H from any of the other trackers where they are featured.

Till next week, hang in there, NowInStock.net will help you get one!