Google’s Nexus 4 mobile device went on sale for about a minute or two yesterday in the U.S. before selling out.

It was a joke, I personally tried to add it to my cart and I did it the second the item was available for purchase and it timed out. It sold out in minutes, I have no clue how many Google was able to sell or how many they had in inventory to sell – but it didn’t seem like many.

A forum filled with complaints can be found in the Google Web Search Help forum, I am sure there are other threads there and other forums with complaints.

Here is one such complaint:

Right now if you want to order it, you cannot. It says sold out. It won’t even let you order it to be in a queue when the inventory comes in. So when will Google replenish and open up orders again? Who knows.

I seriously wonder how many devices Google had on hand.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.