KHON2 first reported on Tuesday that a certain brand of firecrackers will not be available when sales started on Oahu.

Sure enough, when firecracker sales started Wednesday morning, we found people on the hunt to find some.

Those lucky firecrackers didn’t bring that much luck to some shoppers Wednesday.

With permits in hand, many went shopping for firecrackers to ring in the New Year.

Their first stop was Don Quijote in Honolulu.

Just before the morning was over, customers we spoke to say the popular string firecrackers are sold out.

“I think my friend he went early this morning to Pearl City and they sold out at like 6:30, so he got all the strings and I just came in to make use of all these permits,” said Darin Chee.

“All the long strings were gone and so I said wait we called you this morning and you said there was going to be some but there wasn’t any,” said Lani Kaleiki.

“They get only small little packs. What am I going to do with my permit? I buy 5 for nothing,” said Craig Wano.

We checked a smaller retailer, and the owner tells us they ran out of the popular string firecrackers too.

“We have shipment delays just like Don Quijote. It’s stuck at the dock and hopefully, we could get in before New Year,” said Danny Au of Bo Wah Trading in Chinatown. “We try to time it 2 to 3 weeks, but sometimes the shipment delay we cannot control it.”

Aaron Pitt bought 16 permits this year, but no firecrackers yet.

“I’ve probably been to five different Times on the island. I’ve been to 2 different Don Quijotes,” said Pitt.

“Hopefully we get next shipment before Friday so just check back,” said Au.

We’ve checked with Foodland, Longs Drugs, and Times Supermarket about their firecracker inventory.

A spokeswoman from Times tells us 50-percent of their stores that sell firecrackers are sold out.

As for Don Quijote, it’s website now says the company is anticipating a new delivery of firecrackers to arrive between Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon.