I was sure amazed how quickly they pulled them from NewEgg. It made it appear like it was some major recall because the drives were defective, rather than just letting them sell out of them. There are some to be had in Europe and Taiwan, IIRC, but unless they are rebadged at CompUSA like Norwood or some brands like that, we're out of luck. Quite sad too, as I took a long time to 'bite' on buying a BenQ, and when I did, I got a 1640 and loved it (still do, and hope it works well for many years). Right now, there appears to be no 'close replacement' for it in terms of quality scanning and Solidburn results I got on my burns.