Shipping is down to $ 112.50 for 2-day but that is still silly. I tried calling and getting them to do something more reasonable but they said they could not until it was fixed in their database. They said they would call me back later when that happened if I wanted but I decided to go ahead and make sure my order got in today so went with the free shipping. It will ship fed-ex ground from either PA or CA. If it's PA I'll get it overnight since I'm in NJ but I suspect it will ship from CA. They said that they had around 130 ready to ship and that there where around 50 left as of 2:30pm EST. They also told me that the retails stores would not be getting any for a couple of weeks. I too did not get a notice other than reading it here. I take that as a good thing since it likely helped me get one of the first batch
I've been lurking for a while but now that the thing is (finally) coming out I'm ready to participate and talk about the fun I'm sure we are all going to have with this new toy!
-Greg