I scored a 5gb Mac version, in the box with cable, charger, software, ect. at 57th/B-Way during lunch today, for $150 with a two year warr. I've actually never seen one of these before, so I don't know what the difference is, but I guess it's the old version ipod. Hopefully it's not difficult to re-format this to work on a windoze pc. Too bad that Apple seems to have made this thing pretty bullet proof to prevent people from swapping out the hard drives for bigger ones.
Here's the long, arduous story for those who care. I went to crapusa this morning and everyone in the store said they didn't have any open box/clearance items. However, I eventually ran into someone who said that they did have a couple in the back, but that I'd have to return when the operations manager got in at noon. I schlepped back at lunch and the ops manager, who was basically a putz, pulled out the 5gb version and said he wanted $199 for it. I balked and said they were selling them at other crapusa stores for $99 in the box, and $49 straight out. He said no way, and then came down to $150 with a two year service plan. When he rang it up, they charged me $89 for the ipod and $69 for the two year, which is $158, so he had to ring it up all over again. I told him that I heard that the store in NY, on 5th ave, sold a two year plan for $29. He said no way. So in the end, I had to bend over, and got the the ipod for $89 but also had to buy the two year "crapusa pocket money" plan for $59. Grand total, $150. Now, it's a long shot, but I'm going to go to a different crapusa and see if I can return the service plan, thus bringing the price down to $89 for the ipod.