Who knows really. You would think that after opening the sale twice they (Google) would understand the really high demand for the device and create more devices but as already said, people that ordered the device in the beginning of December got backorder of 2 months almost so there is no way to know what's going on.
I'm seeing more people on Craigslist coming down on their prices to example $400 firm for a 16gb which actually isn't too bad considering what one costs via the Play Store after tax and shipping.
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