Quote Originally Posted by Utnorris View Post
What's up with the prices on these? I thought MSRP was $229 for the G2, Newegg and various other places are selling them for over $300 for the 80Gb. How is this allowed by Intel? I cannot imagine anyone buying them at this price.
Theres a rumour going around that when newegg jumped its prices, Intel stopped shipping to newegg, and rotated all its shipments around that it gets its allocation last, but still with-in their contract period. Linked to that rumour is that because of the Intel SSD *direct to newegg* shipments have stopped temporaly, that newegg is currently getting their Intel SSD's from "grey" market sources(SSD's that are normally supposed to be sold only to OEM's such as HP for example) in 20-40 item allotments.

Who knows if the rumours are true, but in either case Intel, newegg, and others, haven't dealt with the whole G2 SSD situation very well, thats for sure.