[NickPollard]

Interestingly, when I was in San Francisco I had to look in 3-4 different stores before I found one with Xooms in stock, the others had all sound out apart from the display unit.

I guess SF is a fairly large outlier when it comes to tech products though.

Personally I'm very happy with mine; the browser is definitely rather buggy right now but that's it - apart from that the software is great.

[shaggyfrog]

A store can sell out of anything if it only had a half dozen in stock to begin with. This is especially the case if the store doesn't have an agreement with the supplier to return any unsold stock after N days. (This kind of free lunch hedging is probably how most units were shipped, if this 25k units-sold floor is true.)