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Well, mine looks to be arriving earlier than my original shipping estimate, so no more having to worry about tracking down an AT&T model at a retail store. I'm happy. :)

PS: I have a green smart cover I don't need; if anyone wants one and is in the North OC/Brea/Fullerton/Anaheim area, it's yours for $40 (cheaper than the Apple store w/tax). PM me if interested.
 
Finally, I scored a white AT&T 64GB iPad 2 after three futile attempts, including one on launch day at Brea. Target Tracker was successful for me. Sunday morning (3/20) at around 2am, I noticed that the closest store to me was showing inventory, in this case, Orange/Tustin. I headed over immediately, with a chair, blanket, and original iPad for entertainment/reading material.

I waited 6 hours, during which time 50 or 60 cars drove right up to the Target, drivers stared (or in some cases, glared) at me, and drove away. When the manager arrived, I struck up a conversation, explaining my reason for camping out and my certainty that they had an iPad waiting. She said that they would have the iPad up front and waiting for me when the store opened at 8am.

At 7:55, this fat f_ck strides up next to me and doesn't say a word. When they open the doors, he shoves me out of the way with his shoulder and starts running towards the electronics section. The manager walks up to me and tells me that my iPad is waiting at the customer service desk. I purchase the iPad, and start walking out to my car. Fat bast_rd walks out of the Target looking seriously miffed. I look over at him and pull the iPad2 out of the bag and give it a triumphal shake.

I wish I could've caught his scowl on the iPad2 rear camera. Priceless!

HAHA awesome! Im sure he was a reseller. Good triumphed over evil hah :D
 
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Has anyone been to south coast lately? Thinking about going there in the morning, don't know if the lines are still crazy or not. Anyone know? Also were do you line up there, I'm assuming they won't let you in the mall prior to opening.
 
Has anyone been to south coast lately? Thinking about going there in the morning, don't know if the lines are still crazy or not. Anyone know? Also were do you line up there, I'm assuming they won't let you in the mall prior to opening.

Brother go to Fashion Island - forget the 'coast!
 
Brea Update

Made my first trip out to purchase an iPad. Got to the Brea Mall around 7:30am and line was around 35 people. By 9am there were over a 100, maybe 150 in line. I would say 1/3 of them were looking to resell (yes, I was profiling, pretty easy to figure out).

They started handing out tickets at 9am and by the time it got to me, all that were left were Verizon, maybe 5-10 of them. Not a good first try and may just have to wait for my April 26 scheduled delivery.
 
Moving up delivery dates- questions

Hi All- Thank you for posting your stories here. This is all very interesting.

My question is to those of us who are waiting for delivery from the Apple Store online. Has your date been moved up? How common is this? And how many days was the estimate moved forward.

Likewise, if your delivery date was moved back, I would be interested in how many days.

Thanks again,
 
That was easy

I looked up available Ipad2 (wifi + 64GB) for Target in the OC -- and the Target on the corner of Adams/Brookhurst said they were in stock - I raced down & they had 3:

1 wifi/Verizon (I think 16GB)
1 wifi/Att (I think 16GB)
1 wifi + 64GB

I bought the wifi/64GB
 
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Ipad2locator keeps saying stores have them and they don't. I think it takes a while for them to be removed from the store's inventory.
 
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Went to the Fullerton Best Buy. They had 32 and 64 Verizon models, but I don't need the 3G.

Stopped by Puente Hills Best Buy and picked up the only one they had, a black 16 wifi. Very happy.
 
update

Spoke to a buddy of mine that works at an Apple Store here in SoCal today and he told me that they're getting around 70 to 80 iPad 2's in a day - they tend to be sold out by around 11 AM each day

Good luck all!
 
Spoke to a buddy of mine that works at an Apple Store here in SoCal today and he told me that they're getting around 70 to 80 iPad 2's in a day - they tend to be sold out by around 11 AM each day

Good luck all!

Ok I'll bite... Which store in SoCal? Thanks!
 
yo he isnt gonna tell you because you might like hurt his friend or something for an ipad 2 its srs bsns bro!!!
 
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