03.21.2011 - so close.... but no ipad

I was checking the target websites to see if they had any ipads that had come in, fully expecting that the answer was no. Imagine my surprise when I saw that one store did show availability!  It was the San Jose westgate store, and when I called them up, they had run out of the 16gb model but still had two 64 gb models on-hand.  They wouldn't let me reserve it over the phone (naturally), so I braved the weather and got to the store in about 30 minutes.  When I got there, a man was just starting to pay for an ipad, I waited behind him.  When he left, the clerk asked what I needed help with, I pointed to the guy that just left, and she said 'that was the last one'.  They apparently only got 4 today after 3-4 days without any at all.  So the trip (5th) was again wasted.  Another 2 or even 1 minute earlier, and I would've gotten that ipad.  I checked a couple of other places (via website and phone), including Fremont and Walnut Creek which both indicated availability on the website.  Turns out both were out of stock already as well when I called.  The website was not real-time, it was several hours behind.  The Fremont Hub store said they had 20 today but won't know how many or when the next shipments would come.  The Walnut Creek store said the next shipment would be in 2 weeks.  I wonder why some stores know but some don't know when they would receive more...