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Picked up white 64gb wifi at "north Dallas" Target a few minutes ago... They even had a sign up saying they didn't have any. Gave electronics guy the DPCI and he went to the back and came back surprised that there was one there as they had been told none had come since day 1... Thanks to whoever set up the stock checker links!

PS - Addison location showed limited availability too but none showed on inventory checker machines...
 
Check it tonight after 10pm, and then again tomorrow morning ~6am or so for the model(s) you are looking for. Most locations seem to open at 8am, so getting there early/first at a location that says "Available" should give you the best chance.

Good luck!

Thanks for the continued assurance to you and LegalTender. Guess I shall try again later in the week. Kinda feel silly though to go back and see the same people and they....look it's you again. Don't give up, eh. Kinda embarrassing for an electronic item! Guess coz I've never done this before :)
 
got the 32gb black wifi at the Fullerton target this morning.

I was second in line. There was a couple behind me, I think they each got one. They only allow 1 per customer. I got there at around 8:45 and they still had 6 in stock. Good thing no one was lining up before 8 like some other stores.

to stinkyfriedtofu:

Just curious which Fullerton Target you are referring to (I believe there are three). I drove from the Greatland, on Malvern/Gilbert, which had sold out right at 8, to the Target on Orangethorpe/Harbor right around 8:30.

The guy told me they had absolutely none, that he was the one in charge of the iPad 2 deliveries and that they hadn't received any since launch. Just hoping I didn't get punked, and they realized after the fact that they did get some in. :(
 
Picked up white 64gb wifi at "north Dallas" Target a few minutes ago... They even had a sign up saying they didn't have any. Gave electronics guy the DPCI and he went to the back and came back surprised that there was one there as they had been told none had come since day 1... Thanks to whoever set up the stock checker links!

PS - Addison location showed limited availability too but none showed on inventory checker machines...

Any chance you'd mind PMing me the store in question? I've been checking north dallas inventory all morning and it's been "Out of Stock" across the board. Just curious if I'm looking in the wrong zipcode or if the inventory tracker is borked for me for some reason...
 
Picked up white 64gb wifi at "north Dallas" Target a few minutes ago... They even had a sign up saying they didn't have any. Gave electronics guy the DPCI and he went to the back and came back surprised that there was one there as they had been told none had come since day 1... Thanks to whoever set up the stock checker links!

PS - Addison location showed limited availability too but none showed on inventory checker machines...

what is DPCI ? it is any thing different then stock checker links?

thanks
 
here's the script i used, but you'll need php to run it and modify the zips you want to check

PHP:
<?php
class CurlRequest
{
    private $ch;
    /**
     * Init curl session
     *
     * $params = array('url' => '',
     *                    'host' => '',
     *                   'header' => '',
     *                   'method' => '',
     *                   'referer' => '',
     *                   'cookie' => '',
     *                   'post_fields' => '',
     *                    ['login' => '',]
     *                    ['password' => '',]     
     *                   'timeout' => 0
     *                   );
     */               
    public function init($params)
    {
        $this->ch = curl_init();
        $user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9';
        $header = array(
        "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5", "Accept-Language: ru-ru,ru;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3","Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7","Keep-Alive: 300");
        if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host'])      $header[]="Host: " . $params['host'];
        if (isset($params['header']) && $params['header']) $header[]=$params['header'];
       
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1 );
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_VERBOSE , 0 );
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HEADER , 1 );
       
        if ($params['method'] == "HEAD") @curl_setopt($this -> ch,CURLOPT_NOBODY,1);
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header );
        if ($params['referer'])    @curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_REFERER, $params['referer'] );
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
        if ($params['cookie'])    @curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_COOKIE, $params['cookie']);

        if ( $params['method'] == "POST" )
        {
            curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
            curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params['post_fields'] );
        }
        @curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_URL, $params['url']);
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );
        if (isset($params['login']) & isset($params['password']))
            @curl_setopt($this -> ch , CURLOPT_USERPWD,$params['login'].':'.$params['password']);
        @curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $params['timeout']);
    }
   
    /**
     * Make curl request
     *
     * @return array  'header','body','curl_error','http_code','last_url'
     */
    public function exec()
    {
        $response = curl_exec($this->ch);
        $error = curl_error($this->ch);
        $result = array( 'header' => '',
                         'body' => '',
                         'curl_error' => '',
                         'http_code' => '',
                         'last_url' => '');
        if ( $error != "" )
        {
            $result['curl_error'] = $error;
            return $result;
        }
       
        $header_size = curl_getinfo($this->ch,CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
        $result['header'] = substr($response, 0, $header_size);
        $result['body'] = substr( $response, $header_size );
        $result['http_code'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
        $result['last_url'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
        return $result;
    }
}


$curl = new CurlRequest();
$zip = array(90026, 90059, 90230, 91748, 90747, 91114, 92614, 92334,91770, 92840);
$dpci = array('057-10-1830', '057-10-1831', '057-10-1839', '057-10-1832', '057-10-1840', '057-10-1841');
$content = '<html>';
foreach($dpci as $ipad) {
	foreach($zip as $z) {
		try {           
			$params = array(
			'url' => 'http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/mobile_fiats_results.jsp?_DARGS=/site/en/spot/mobile_fiats.jsp',
			'host' => '',
			'header' => '',
			'method' => 'POST', // 'POST','HEAD'
			'referer' => '',
			'cookie' => '',
			'post_fields' => '_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&asin=&dpci='.$ipad.'&zipcode='.$z.'&city=&state=', // 'var1=value&var2=value
			'timeout' => 20
			);
		   
			$curl->init($params);
			$result = $curl->exec();
			if ($result['curl_error'])    throw new Exception($result['curl_error']);
			if ($result['http_code']!='200')    throw new Exception("HTTP Code = ".$result['http_code']);
			if (!$result['body'])        
				throw new Exception("Body of file is empty");
			$html = $result['body'];
			$d = new domDocument;
			@$d->loadHTML($html);
			
			$list = $d->getElementsByTagName('ul');
			$haystack = $list->item(1)->nodeValue;
			if(stripos($haystack, 'ava')) {
				$content .= '<h1>'.$ipad.' - '.$z.'</h1>';
				$content .= trim($haystack);
			}
			
		} catch (Exception $e) {
			echo $e->getMessage();
		}
	}
}

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
echo '<body>'.$content.'</body></html>';
//send output
//mail('your@gmail.com', 'target', $content, $headers);
 
Here's my experience:

Checked online this morning and my local target showed availability for the 64GB WiFi and AT&T models. Went to the store and was #3 in line. The 2 people ahead of me wanted the 3g models, I didn’t care which one I wanted.. Went straight to the electronics dept. and a target employee was waiting with 2 ipads in his hand. He said this is all we have to sell today - both were the 3g models which the 2 people ahead of me wanted... So I inquired about the wifi. the guy went on and on about how these are the only 2 they had and that he has been working here for 17years+ and is in charge of the electronics inventory, etc. etc.... wouldn’t even check the dpci for me.. so I went and found someone with a little scanner and had them look it up. sure enough it said they had 2 in stock. I asked if she could go check the stock room, but she refused and said if electronics said they didn’t have them, then they didn’t have them. I insisted that she check, so we went to the electronics department.
The guy saw me coming and was like, "didn’t I tell you already that we don’t have them", and was very rude about it. at this point I became extremely frustrated and went off on them. Mentioning that my dad was an exec at target finally got them to rethink how they were going to handle the situation. the guy finally went into the stock room, all the while bitching about how he was 1000% certain they didn’t have them. walked out 2 min later with 2 in hand and a very embarrassed face...

so just don’t give up if they are showing in stock in the store - they are somewhere inside...Target supposedly has one of the best inventory sytems in the country..
 
Here's my experience:

Checked online this morning and my local target showed availability for the 64GB WiFi and AT&T models. Went to the store and was #3 in line. The 2 people ahead of me wanted the 3g models, I didn’t care which one I wanted.. Went straight to the electronics dept. and a target employee was waiting with 2 ipads in his hand. He said this is all we have to sell today - both were the 3g models which the 2 people ahead of me wanted... So I inquired about the wifi. the guy went on and on about how these are the only 2 they had and that he has been working here for 17years+ and is in charge of the electronics inventory, etc. etc.... wouldn’t even check the dpci for me.. so I went and found someone with a little scanner and had them look it up. sure enough it said they had 2 in stock. I asked if she could go check the stock room, but she refused and said if electronics said they didn’t have them, then they didn’t have them. I insisted that she check, so we went to the electronics department.
The guy saw me coming and was like, "didn’t I tell you already that we don’t have them", and was very rude about it. at this point I became extremely frustrated and went off on them. Mentioning that my dad was an exec at target finally got them to rethink how they were going to handle the situation. the guy finally went into the stock room, all the while bitching about how he was 1000% certain they didn’t have them. walked out 2 min later with 2 in hand and a very embarrassed face...

so just don’t give up if they are showing in stock in the store - they are somewhere inside...Target supposedly has one of the best inventory sytems in the country..

ur dad doesn't work for Target right ? ;)
 
ur dad doesn't work for Target right ? ;)

nope, it was the only thing i could think of that would maybe work...and it did. Im pretty young and was wearing a suit (on way to work) so, i think that may have lead them to believe i was telling the truth.. i felt bad lying about that but they just didnt want to help me at all.
 
Here's my experience:

Checked online this morning and my local target showed availability for the 64GB WiFi and AT&T models. Went to the store and was #3 in line. The 2 people ahead of me wanted the 3g models, I didn’t care which one I wanted.. Went straight to the electronics dept. and a target employee was waiting with 2 ipads in his hand. He said this is all we have to sell today - both were the 3g models which the 2 people ahead of me wanted... So I inquired about the wifi. the guy went on and on about how these are the only 2 they had and that he has been working here for 17years+ and is in charge of the electronics inventory, etc. etc.... wouldn’t even check the dpci for me.. so I went and found someone with a little scanner and had them look it up. sure enough it said they had 2 in stock. I asked if she could go check the stock room, but she refused and said if electronics said they didn’t have them, then they didn’t have them. I insisted that she check, so we went to the electronics department.
The guy saw me coming and was like, "didn’t I tell you already that we don’t have them", and was very rude about it. at this point I became extremely frustrated and went off on them. Mentioning that my dad was an exec at target finally got them to rethink how they were going to handle the situation. the guy finally went into the stock room, all the while bitching about how he was 1000% certain they didn’t have them. walked out 2 min later with 2 in hand and a very embarrassed face...

so just don’t give up if they are showing in stock in the store - they are somewhere inside...Target supposedly has one of the best inventory sytems in the country..

That's rude and unprofessional. Did he at least apologize?
 
stinkyfriedtofu, the script doesn't seem to be working consistently. It works at times and at certain point it times out. I uploaded the php file to my webhost. Does it matter if the host is linux or windows?
 
Here's my experience:

Checked online this morning and my local target showed availability for the 64GB WiFi and AT&T models. Went to the store and was #3 in line. The 2 people ahead of me wanted the 3g models, I didn’t care which one I wanted.. Went straight to the electronics dept. and a target employee was waiting with 2 ipads in his hand. He said this is all we have to sell today - both were the 3g models which the 2 people ahead of me wanted... So I inquired about the wifi. the guy went on and on about how these are the only 2 they had and that he has been working here for 17years+ and is in charge of the electronics inventory, etc. etc.... wouldn’t even check the dpci for me.. so I went and found someone with a little scanner and had them look it up. sure enough it said they had 2 in stock. I asked if she could go check the stock room, but she refused and said if electronics said they didn’t have them, then they didn’t have them. I insisted that she check, so we went to the electronics department.
The guy saw me coming and was like, "didn’t I tell you already that we don’t have them", and was very rude about it. at this point I became extremely frustrated and went off on them. Mentioning that my dad was an exec at target finally got them to rethink how they were going to handle the situation. the guy finally went into the stock room, all the while bitching about how he was 1000% certain they didn’t have them. walked out 2 min later with 2 in hand and a very embarrassed face...

so just don’t give up if they are showing in stock in the store - they are somewhere inside...Target supposedly has one of the best inventory sytems in the country..

It's true but the system is still only as effective as the employees using it are competent. If I were you I'd have asked to see the manager. No Target employee should be refusing to check whether a product is in stock for you. If you ask they're supposed to physically check even if the system says there aren't any. If the system does say that they're in stock they're supposed to look until they find them. I would have filed a complaint if I were you.
 
Score a 32MB black wifi at Cypress Target this morning right at 8:05am (exactly what I wanted). Last one available.

Check the inventory tracker first thing in the morning, then be there right at opening in order to have a shot.
 
Thanks for the continued assurance to you and LegalTender. Guess I shall try again later in the week. Kinda feel silly though to go back and see the same people and they....look it's you again. Don't give up, eh. Kinda embarrassing for an electronic item! Guess coz I've never done this before :)

Something fishy here. So looks like they kept he iPads themselves once they realized there were only 1 or 2. :) right after I left the store inventory changed to out of stock. 15 min before it in stock and they say we have not sold any iPad since 1st day! Hmmmm

Btw, just pre-ordered Xoom wifi from Costco for a great price. Will compare the two tabs at home now when I get iPad. Xoom gets shipped on 4/1. Let's see when I get iPad. Apple online order comes home on 4/8. Unless I get lucky at Target. Not too hopeful though.
 
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Success this morning, 3/17/11! I have a Black, 32gb Wi-Fi new-in-box sitting on my office desk right now. Haven’t had time to open it and probably won’t until tonight, but from the box it looks like a Xoom tablet. It’s hard to tell since they decided to angle the picture. Hopefully it will perform at least half the tasks that the Xoom will. I’ll see if this thing can run Android Honeycomb, but if not I’ll just use it until the Xoom comes out. Hopefully I don’t brick it like the last two and end up using it to balance the legs on a wobbly table or as a coaster.

I’m kidding, stop typing that hate mail. I’ll save everyone a long story, but I will state that everything posted in this thread works (at least for me). The most important thing to do is check inventory the night before; this way when the stock-count changes you will be absolutely certain they have them inside. Also, I was able to verify that the inventory stocker updates within an hour of the sale.

I was there with Denny24 actually, as I’ll never forget the sweet poetic justice of watching a scalper get their credit card denied! The lady tried to buy up the last of their stock, which would have resulted in her getting two, me with one, and Denny24 with empty hands. If this situation is about to happen to you after you have waited, make sure to remind the Target employee that they have a one iPad per customer policy. I don’t know if the policy is nation-wide (the scalper looked at me in shock when I confirmed what the Target employee had said) but this Target apparently had this policy.
 
Without having to read through all the pages... What are people's experiences in regards to the accuracy of the online system vs. the in store system? Online my local Target says, "Limited Availability" for a 64GB White WiFi only, but in store it said Aisle = N/A, Stockroom = No.
 
Without having to read through all the pages... What are people's experiences in regards to the accuracy of the online system vs. the in store system? Online my local Target says, "Limited Availability" for a 64GB White WiFi only, but in store it said Aisle = N/A, Stockroom = No.

It seems to be the most accurate right before the store opens. Some stores have the online inventory updated within a few hours after selling the last in stock item, other seems (from anecdotal reports) to take longer.

Check early morning, get there before they open, bee-line for the electronics department, and provide them the DPCI for the model you wanted. Politely request they check the stockroom and double check the shelves as well.
 
Without having to read through all the pages... What are people's experiences in regards to the accuracy of the online system vs. the in store system? Online my local Target says, "Limited Availability" for a 64GB White WiFi only, but in store it said Aisle = N/A, Stockroom = No.

It takes up to an hour for the online stock to reflect actual sales. It is always possible that it will show as A or LA and sell within the time it takes for you to drive to that specific Target. The way that worked for me was I checked online at night, then checked again early the next morning. If it changes from OOS to A overnight, you will be certain it is in stock. Also, if you check in the morning before the store opens, there is no way it will get sold while the store is physically closed. Then you can further deduce that if you get to the store early, you may have a very high probability of securing one. Good luck!
 
Keep checking the Target site. I got lucky...

Here's what happened earlier today. Thanks to all who have posted on this thread.

9:30 AM- I read this thread, and check Target inventory in my area (no inventory anywhere within 150 miles)

10:30- Checked Target inventory again and see that inventory is now available the 32gb Black Wi-Fi (machine I wanted) at one of the stores in my area (Jackson MS). The term "Available" was now showing on the Target site. I get in the car and drive to Target.

11:00- Arrive at Target, but I'm told by the electronics clerk and the manager that on-line inventory is usually wrong and they don't have any new iPad 2's.

11:30. After tracking down the manager I explain the situation and have him put in the SKU # for the item that the Target site is showing (just for verification).

Here's where it get's a little strange... He tells me that there's no inventory available (I couldn't see his computer screen to verify, but something seemed a little strange). I then asked for his corporate office phone number, to tell them what an inconvenience this has been, and to inquire as to why their on-line inventory might be incorrect.

11:45- The guy has to go get the phone number for the corporate office, and when he returns informs me that he has just found three iPads (amazing!!!). Don't know if it's just a coincidence, but it was a little strange that they weren't showing up until I asked for the corporate office phone number.

12:00- Make purchase of two 32gb Black Wi-Fi's (only two available at this store), and one 16gb White AT&T. Wife was with me, so I don't know if 2 person limit is being enforced at Target.

12:10- I have someone check Target inventory on-line and it now shows "Not Available" for the 32gb Black Wi-fi (inventory never showed anything for the White 16gb AT&T.)

Bottom line...
Looks like on-line Target inventory is correct, so keep hitting the refresh button. Also, once sold out, it looks like the Target site updates pretty quickly.

Finally... During this process no one else came to the electronics department inquiring about having seen available inventory on the Target site. Hopefully your chances are pretty good if you see "Available" pop up, and you can get to a store quickly. DON'T LEAVE THE STORE UNTIL SPEAKING WITH A MANAGER if you see inventory available on the Target site, as this site is probably correct.

Thanks again to all the folks posting on this thread. I hope this helps,
 
Always have them check the item number at the cash register or with one of their hand scanners. That's normally accurate within a few minutes, unlike the website which can lag by an hour.

If both show they are in stock, they are there. You just need to get someone to figure out where they are.
 
for those people who where able to get iPad 2 at Target, did you encounter any backlight bleeding, dead/stuck pixels or any other problem?

Nope. I've actually bought two different models, at two different Targets, and both have no problem with backlight bleeding or dead/stuck pixels. Both work perfectly.
 
32GB Black (WiFi Only)

Is it just me, or this the most popular model? I notice this one particular model being mentioned the most within this thread (I've got one myself). And I've also noticed that Target has barely gotten any 16GB models. Wonder if Apple's trying to push us in that direction?
 
Any updates on how accurate these links are to store inventory? I'm unable to go tonight, but I called the one store in my area that said they had a 32GB black wi-fi available and the guy in electronics said they were sold out:confused:... unfortunately I can't find out for myself... I apologize if this is repetitive, just looking for updates!

These links are pretty accurate (at least for Target). I used the links for Target, and one store in my area showed "limited availability" for both a black and a white 32gb wifi only yesterday at about 10:30am. This store was on the very fringes of town, so makes sense they still had some. I called the store just to check before driving up, spoke to the guy in electronics and sure enough, they had 1 left of each. I asked him if he could hold, but he couldn't. I hopped in my car and drove up, arriving about 30 min later. When I got to electronics, they had several iPads in case. Found the guy handling the Electronics section and let him know I wanted the 32gb Black Wifi one. He said he just sold the last one 15 minutes ago. He did still have the White 32gb wifi one available and I saw it in the locked case. The other 6 ipads in the case? They were all iPad 1's, unfortunately. Ugh.

I thought long and hard about just taking the White 32gb Wifi iPad 2, but knew that ultimately I really wanted the White one, so I passed. When I got out to my car, I checked the target site again, and sure enough, the Black 32gb Wifi one had gone from "Limited Availability" down to "Unavailable", but the White one was still show as Limited Availability. So, the online inventory system for Target at least is pretty accurate and up-to-date.
 
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