Decided to register because of how helpful this thread has been.
Long story short: Don't bother calling, drive to the store and ask!
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After reading this thread fully last week I noticed that my BestBuy store had the listing "In Store Only," so I decided to stop by after work. I had called multiple times over the period of that week and eventually someone told me that if I timed it right, I could pick one up if someone did not pick up their reserve after 48 hours had passed.
When I walked up to customer service, I asked if I could go ahead and purchase an Ipad2 that I had called about earlier and a representative told me that they were releasing them after 4pm that day if the reserved copies weren't picked up. She was clueless to what I was talking about but said she'd go try and find out for me. After 10 mins of her running around asking people she came back and told me that all their managers were in a meeting if I could hold on a few more minutes. Then another girl came out of the back and she asked her and she was like "no, we are out." But I waited anyways just in case and she got the manger she was looking for.
So the manager came up and I told him what I told him and he kinda pondered it a moment then said "hold on one second let me go check stock." So then he goes off into the "Fire Control Room" (lol) where I guess they were hiding their stock. Maybe they were worried about employee theft? I don't know, anyways, he comes back out and says, well we have a few back there but they are supposed to go to the next person on the list. So I said "The girl on the phone didn't tell me that. Could i maybe get on the list then? I'm pregnant (I am lol) and it's hard for me to keep trying every day to see if there is a free one around." He said, he understood my situation but couldn't put me on the list. Then he said "Wait one second let me check again."
So I wait some more. He comes out with a big long printed out list of names, there must have been 20 pages there, I'm not kidding, of reservations, and he starts going through it. Now about 30 minutes has passed and I'm starting to think "well if you don't have one, just tell me so I can go lol."
But he goes into the fire room one more time and then stays in there for another 15 mins. At this point I'm calling my husband because I'm so late from my drive home from work. But then he returns with a single box in his hand! I hear a random employee stop him "Hey are you really going to sell that to her?" And he said "Yeah, I am. " LOL!
So he finally walks up to me and says "How about a white 32g wifi?" and I'm like Absolutely!
So there is my Ipad2 story. I wish you all the best of luck in acquiring one yourself!
My only issue now is that I have to get another one for a family member! I don't think I'll be so lucky twice!
