Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST

Notice the huge banner at the top of the Play Store now?

"Google Play is currently experiencing very high traffic. Nexus 4 is not sold out and will still be available for purchase. Please try again shortly. Thank you for your patience."

A banner at the top of the store now reads: "Google Play is currently experiencing very high traffic. Nexus 4 is not sold out and will still be available for purchase. Please try again shortly. Thank you for your patience."

Not sure whether "will still be available" means "today" or "one of these days"...

Update 14:05 PST now the banner is gone.

Curious question: They are not releasing this in Canada at the moment, but I can go through one of my US-based servers to add it to my cart. Assuming I ever get past the high-demand errors, does anyone know if I'll be allowed to ship it to Canada?

Keep in mind, both Canadian and US customers access the site via play.google.com. They are only determining your country based on IP (or something similar) and presenting a different experience.

finally secured my 16GB Nexus 4. Tips / steps I picked up from various posts in this story:

- If you see "Sold out", just refresh. I had to refresh many times at certain points just to see "Add to cart"

- Sometimes the "Add to cart" just fails, go back to the product page and try adding it again.

- Once you have the item in your cart, don't click on "cart" again, because your can (and probably will) lose it.

- Even though "Proceed" is grayed out, you can (and should!) click it again freely.

- Make sure to use firefox developer web console, firebug, or something similar for your browser, so you can hit "proceed" as soon as the series of 3 http requests has returned. they looked like this for me (I had to enable "Log" under "Network" for firefox web console):

  [16:03:00.085] POST https://play.google.com/xhr/ce [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 70ms]
  [16:03:00.085] POST https://play.google.com/store/checkoutcart [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 450ms]
  [16:03:00.538] POST https://play.google.com/xhr/ce [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 59ms]

- You will see "Due to high traffic.." and "Oops! .." errors constantly. Don't give up :)