"The Apple Retail Store likely has your iPhone 3G in stock. You can check the most up-to-date availability right here. Shipments of iPhone 3G arrive most days and availability is updated nightly."
3 stores in the US have some version of the 3G in stock; only one has the 16GB black.
Time to update the iPhone web site Steve. How about we change "likely" to "is unlikely".
Something doesn't seem quite right about this shortage. Either that or Apple has the hottest product in retail history. Un-f?cking-believable.