Stopped by apple store in sugar land, tx (suburb of houston) this morning. Asked specialist to check if they have any mavics in stock or being unloaded. He said that he could see that propellers were being unloaded. He took my name and said he would hold and call me if they had one. 30 minutes later, received a call... they were holding the only mavic that just came in for me. i just got back home from picking it up.
one thing he told me was that if apple has less than 5 (five) of anything in store, inventory will show as unavailable.
i'm cancelling my best buy order.
Thanks to all regarding the apple store tip!