I agree about the $129.95 price being a bit high coming from our base price at Texas Instruments (USA) versus the price of the Nspire CX color (same price at Underwood Dist anyway). You may think that official Texas Instruments dealers make a killing on the school calculators but the opposite is true, most dealers are lucky to make 3-7% per unit in competition with eachother, the same goes for the Casio calculator market dealer prices. Which is all beneficial to the end-user, students, schools. Be very, very weary of those Ebay/Amazon 3rd Party Sellers like someone mentioned, make sure you are getting what you paid for! A good deal happening at Texas Instruments right now is the close-out of the Nspire Touchpad series calc, you can buy it there online for $55, we have it going for $54.95, schools have been jumping on this special like crazy with budget contraints etc. this is a good way for classrooms to advance their technology if they were only using the TI84+. I would suspect that TI will be dropping the price of the regular TI84+ Silver Edition, but don't be looking for a close-out price of this item just yet since there is no word yet on it going away. Someone mentioned being in Canada...we sold a TI84+ C Silver to Quebec province last week, total out the door for UPS Standard was $153.82, this didn't include the end-users taxes/duties though so I don't know how much they gouge you for those!! This seems like a forum where you have enjoyed the TI calculators of the past....the TI85, the TI86, TI89, TI92? These were great calcs, so many people disapointed when TI did away with them. No worries, the TI89T and the Voyage 200 are still current and going strong.

We were referred to your forum by a walk-in customer today who purchased the new TI84 + C Silver Calculator from us. First of all, great forum. Second, I am Suzanne from Underwood Distributing!  We have been a Texas Instruments educational dealer for 30 years, we are the only TI educational dealer in the state of Michigan. We only ship new product directly from Texas Instruments (USA), we never sell anything used/demo/2nd class. Our product comes in new and is shipped out the same way. Questions on this forum were discussing exactly who we were and how can we have this new calculator available already? We received our first initial shipment of 24pcs of this calculator a week ago, we filled our pre-order customers and now we have more stock of 12pcs arriving on Thursday and then continuing shipments relative to orders. I do see on the Texas Inst. educ site it still says "Spring 2013" but if you click on "Where to Purchase" it lists a whole list of educational dealers (including us) to purchase from. I cannot guarantee what dealers have stock because every dealer is separate and it all depends if they were able to get stock from this first wave of TI84 + C Silver Calculators that were available. You can always trust any of the dealers listed on the Texas Instrument Educational Site to provide you with new Texas Instruments calculators!