For the frugal like me, can find it for around $500 elsewhere at least as of Wednesday, just can't recall where at the moment. Google is your friend.
$500 shipped? damn you should have bought a few.. I paid $450 for mine and regret not buying two.
If you could use that Google magic again, I'm sure us cavemen would appreciate your wisdom in a link to that sale. Even just the vendors name would be great.