Harddrive.com turns out to be in Texas, as am I, so I'd also be paying them state sales tax in addition to the premium they charge over Outpost.com. Also interesting, Outpost.com has raised their price by $10 relative to yesterday but is still listing "5-7 day availability". I called them on the phone about this, and it means, roughly, that they've ordered the equipment and the vendor (IBM) isn't promising them a ship date, but the vendor typically come through in under a week.

If I want, I can back out of the contract, but I'm going to give them another week to see if they're right. If I don't have the hard drive in hand next week, then I suck it up and pay the extra bucks to HardDrive.com.

*sigh*