Well... my argument was, that even IF I wait, what can I get more for 266$? I really doubt that Q9300 will have more value than a Q6600. Q9450 is going to be better than Q6600, even if it has a lower multiplier, no doubt about it. But it's price will also be ~20% higher (316 vs 266), and I don't think that the new processor will be 20% faster on average than a Q6600 (except in applications which use SSE4, but I don't have much use for those). Some said that the price of Q6600 is going to go down. I for one really don't see why it should. I think it would eclipse both Q9300 & Q9450 if it would. So my guess is that Q6600 is simply going to be discontinued.
And, even if Phenom is going to be better than Core 2, I think AMD will try to sell it for the highest price that it can, to make up for all it's losses in the last year; so I don't think that will affect Intel's prices.