According to all the data that I was able to get from current Kindle owners, Amazon has not shipped any order placed for a Kindle after November 24th. From the data posted by owners at Kindle Korner Yahoo Group, the last owners to receive the Kindle got them on December 11th, so Amazon has not shipped a Kindle in more than 10 days! I contacted Amazon regarding this situation and all I got was the usual canned answer: They do not have any information about when more Kindles are going to be shipped.

It seems to me that Amazon was not enough prepared for this release and sellers at eBay are using this situation to have their units sold for more than 1000 dollars.