area code 84604 and its a 64GB AT&T. I don't know python at all so i have no idea how to fix it.
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Yeah. I just entered two zip codes that show Available and Limited Availability and ran the problem. I'm not getting any emails?
Could you post the results you are getting so I can compare? Also maybe the OP of the script could jump in and loan a helping hand.
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hmmm maybe i need to set up 6 diff scripts for the 3 diff models and 2 zip codes i want to search. Or, I can just keep running this one till I get an error message and then i know there is something and I can run all the DPCI's and zips manual to find out which it is. haha
I don't think it has any problem checking the multiple DPCI's or zips. I think the problem is when it comes to reporting the true outcomes for multiple.
I don't think it has any problem checking the multiple DPCI's or zips. I think the problem is when it comes to reporting the true outcomes for multiple.
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I went there tonight cuz I can't believe they have them available and need to check it out myself. The system shows they have 3 AT&T White 32GB and 1 AT&T Black 64GB on the floor. Staff tried locating them at the stock room but no success.
Someone must have hid those somewhere in the store.
Is that why the pages aren't coming up?
I have spent the last four days checking and rechecking all the Target's within 50 miles, and I have been to approx 6 targets, 4 of which had incorrect inventory online. It would say one thing, and get there and it would be another. I did check stock numbers in store and they all said NONE but the inventory said all day long limited supply. Very strange.
I've spent two days in line at apple for hours only to find no shipment, no ipads. Ugh!!
What's a girl gotta do to find an iPad? Oh, wait, don't answer that. lol
Thanks for letting me vent. I have truly appreciated those who spent time to post all these links and your stories about your experiences.
I have spent the last four days checking and rechecking all the Target's within 50 miles, and I have been to approx 6 targets, 4 of which had incorrect inventory online. It would say one thing, and get there and it would be another. I did check stock numbers in store and they all said NONE but the inventory said all day long limited supply. Very strange.
I've spent two days in line at apple for hours only to find no shipment, no ipads. Ugh!!
What's a girl gotta do to find an iPad? Oh, wait, don't answer that. lol
Thanks for letting me vent. I have truly appreciated those who spent time to post all these links and your stories about your experiences.
Just goes to show that somebody can be smart enough to create a neat script .... and yet dumb enough to effectively launch a DDoS against the very site we wanted to be able to access. Apparently, no thought whatsoever was put into the probability that a script like this would completely hammer and knock it offline. A mobile site is generally designed to be a lightweight, low bandwidth site, that doesn't get a large number of queries.
The OP should take the script offline. At this point, we'll be lucky if we can ever check new item inventory like this again in the near future.
The OP should take the script offline. At this point, we'll be lucky if we can ever check new item inventory like this again in the near future.
There's no proof of this. Sites go down all the time. Target's site typically goes down during the weekend at various intervals for product page updates that align with the weekly circular sales. While it's generally true that mobile sites are designed to be lightweight to reduce HTTP requests which in turn results in faster load times for mobile devices, but they are in no way designed to get low queries. In fact, the majority of mobile sites are designed to be as accessible as possible. Most mobile sites are optimized using a combination of CSS and Javascript, so the number of queries it receives doesn't much matter. What's more likely is that the site was pulled because it wasn't intended for the general public (based on a couple of posts ealier in the thread), and a spike in traffic alerted Target's IT operations to this. A simple log check will review a ton of referrals from Macrumors, and I'm sure Target's IT team noticed this.
Uhhh....well by that logic the extra traffic still caused it. It would be extra traffic from the script that caused the spike that the IT guys spotted.
Q.E.D.
Colonol Mustard in the Kitchen with the Script.
I rest my case.
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It really annoys me that, not only has apple not made any sort of official statement on the nature of their shipments, if there's any supply issues, or instated any system for checking stock in your area, but retailers are also blocking attempts. It's really very frustrating. I understand the whole supply and demand thing, and that apple wants there to be buzz in the media about people struggling to get one to increase the hype, etc. etc. but the low amount of stock and high demand is enough. There is absolutely zero reason to keep consumers in the dark like they are it's poor customer service and it doesn't do them anymore good marketing-wise.
Seeing that a store near you has stock doesn't give you any unfair advantage over anybody else, doesn't automatically mean you'll get one, doesn't mean that all of a sudden they'll be easy to get. All it would do is save people gas money, keep people from annoying horrible service reps with phone calls to the store that often provide misinformation anyway, and save people the trouble of getting up early and waiting in a line for hours only to find that it was all for nothing. By not having any kind of stock info they're just adding unnecessary inconvenience. And, I know they don't MAKE you, you don't have to even buy the ****ing thing if you don't want to, but it's not like it would take a lot of their time and resources to alleviate these issues, just as a common courtesy to their customers. And, if you wanna look at it from a business stand point, it would be great PR, they would get even more press, and people would be very grateful.
Even just a press release saying "hey, we know supplies are limited right now, here's why, here's what we're doing, here's an ETA on when things may normalize, etc. etc." something to that effect, something to let their customers and their fans know that they, at least, are somewhat sympathetic, it's just common courtesy. I mean, this is a company that supposedly prides itself on customer service, it's their top priority. People need to go back and watch the 1997 Macworld expo.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple products, they make great stuff, and they really light a fire under the asses of other tech companies, which is a good thing. And I understand that stock and limited and demand is high. But no company should make things harder for consumers than they already are. IN FACT they should be doing everything in their power to make things go as smoothly as possible, and that's everything from the consumers experience in the store, to the quality of the product itself, and COMMUNICATION is a very key part of that, and it's one thing Apple has failed at for this launch.
Seeing that a store near you has stock doesn't give you any unfair advantage over anybody else, doesn't automatically mean you'll get one, doesn't mean that all of a sudden they'll be easy to get. All it would do is save people gas money, keep people from annoying horrible service reps with phone calls to the store that often provide misinformation anyway, and save people the trouble of getting up early and waiting in a line for hours only to find that it was all for nothing. By not having any kind of stock info they're just adding unnecessary inconvenience. And, I know they don't MAKE you, you don't have to even buy the ****ing thing if you don't want to, but it's not like it would take a lot of their time and resources to alleviate these issues, just as a common courtesy to their customers. And, if you wanna look at it from a business stand point, it would be great PR, they would get even more press, and people would be very grateful.
Even just a press release saying "hey, we know supplies are limited right now, here's why, here's what we're doing, here's an ETA on when things may normalize, etc. etc." something to that effect, something to let their customers and their fans know that they, at least, are somewhat sympathetic, it's just common courtesy. I mean, this is a company that supposedly prides itself on customer service, it's their top priority. People need to go back and watch the 1997 Macworld expo.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple products, they make great stuff, and they really light a fire under the asses of other tech companies, which is a good thing. And I understand that stock and limited and demand is high. But no company should make things harder for consumers than they already are. IN FACT they should be doing everything in their power to make things go as smoothly as possible, and that's everything from the consumers experience in the store, to the quality of the product itself, and COMMUNICATION is a very key part of that, and it's one thing Apple has failed at for this launch.
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Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
For what it's worth this happened last night at about 3 am eastern time, the site went down and then came back up. I think it's maintenance. Seems like a few hundred users (tops) on MR that are actually running a script for a few kb of data every 20 minutes is not a very detrimental DDOS for a corporate website the size of target.
For what it's worth this happened last night at about 3 am eastern time, the site went down and then came back up. I think it's maintenance. Seems like a few hundred users (tops) on MR that are actually running a script for a few kb of data every 20 minutes is not a very detrimental DDOS for a corporate website the size of target.
While you may very well be correct about the downtime being for maintenance, I think you might underestimate the scale of the problem. When showing up at a Southern California Target at 7am to wait after the tracker indicated stock, I arrived to find about 10 people in front of me, including two elderly ladies who could take us back to the civil war if their ages were added. If even the most unlikely method is discovered, it will be disseminated.
Thus it would not surprise me if the number of people running this (or a similar) script exceeds a few hundred users on MR, and could potentially cause an effective DDoS to Target's mobile site.
It is back up and working but please stop using these scripts. You are just drawing a lot of attention and abuse to Target's inventory search and I would not be surprised if the scripts are causing them problems. So, just stop, it's stupid and a bit overboard to have these scripts running nonstop tracking all models.
Nothing here either. Burbank still shows as AVAILABLE for 32GB White 3G but the black 64GB 3G one is now OOS. Someone must have saved enough money to buy them or the ebay listing is sold
Anyone on east coast has any luck today?
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There are 64gb wifi showing in Charlotte at the SE store. So the search does work.
There are 64gb wifi showing in Charlotte at the SE store. So the search does work.