I was going to order from Amazon, but saw the "shipping December 3rd" message. So I just happened to look on Best Buy's website and it showed "Available now". I was thinking, that can't be right, so called the store to confirm it and sure enough they had it.
I drove down there and they had piles of boxes available. Picked up a 16GB Fire HD 8.9 for myself. What a stark difference to the fiasco that Google launches are. Haha.