Best Wii Tracker?

[Queasy]

My brother, in his infinite wisdom, has decided to wait until the last minute to get a Wii and is not going to pay eBay prices or buy a bundle. So, he asked me to help him out by giving him tips.

I told him his best shot was probably to go to his local Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, etc and talk with the clerks to find out when they are going to get a shipment in. I also suggested setting up topic alerts at Fatwallet and SlickDeals.

I almost got a Wii at Sears but lost it because it went out of stock while I was waiting for the shopping cart to load. Yippee.

Anyways, what's a good Wii Tracker site? I did a Google search and Wii Tracker sites are all over the place but I can't tell which one is accurate and some have broken links, etc etc. Example: One place called "iTrackr.com" said there was a Wii in-stock at a Wal-Mart near my house but it wasn't.

 

[BigJ]

For online, you're not going to be faster than forums for the most part.

Wiialerts isn't bad, but it was pretty slow compared to Slickdeals today. Almost 5 minutes later after the first forum posting.

If he's really diehard about getting a Wii, he could setup a custom tracker that sends txt messages and e-mails each time there's a change to specific fields on the page.

 

[thawolfman]

I had no problems with Wiialerts for amazon today...got the text probably 30-60sec after they went live on the site. (Verizon)

 

[goog40]

wiitracker.com and nowinstock.net are decent (you can subscribe to email or mobile alerts with nowinstock when specific stores get them in stock). But right now, even the crappy bundles are selling out in minutes, so you have to act quick. Also, iTrackr is out-of-date and useless. Probably the easiest place to order one online is from Wal-mart when they have the $677 bundle in stock. You can return everything you don't want for a refund, but you'll get stuck paying the shipping charges which are $40 so that your actual cost is about $290+tax.

Some stores supposedly will have them on the 16th and some Targets may have them on the 9th (it seems to be regional, because most Targets won't have them on the 9th AFAIK), but be prepared to line up early if you really want it.