By the way, you can buy it from Fry's.com and do the instore pickup. They won't ship it though.
Madcatz really screwed up on the shortages on the joystick. I personally will not pick up a joystick for more than 40 bucks, even if it is made of the real arcade parts. The xbox360 controller really sucks but I manage to get over 500 wins on Online Ranked matches with it. As more people adopt to the crappy control pad, sales of the joystick might not be as high as they had made enough at launch. Especially in this crappy economy, who needs another peripheral...