I work directly with Corporate, and they do have quite a stock of them...
I actually walked into a corporate store earlier just to verify it, because i work as an exclusive dealer, and they have roughly 6 per store, and all of my stores have at least 2 just in case. the same way some of the autorized dealers dont have any T-Mobile Wings....
no to be rude...but most authorized dealers really cant profit off of the 8800's and they do tell people that they are discontinued because the people that work there really dont know any different because of the fact that they sell pretty much everything.
I was told that they were discontinued by an authorized dealer about 2 weeks ago and i just orderd more, so I think before people shoot their mouths off to customers they should know the information they are releasing, because i played stupid trying to get the guy a job, and he screwed up almost every price plan, and had to pull out a brochure to try and explain the plans, and didnt even know if the blackberry was capable of internet.... those kinds of people should not be selling phones. oops...