After reading your reply, I tend to think you are right and it was just my slight frustration that my christmas present idea is now screwed. S0rry.
But just to clear up a few points....
By limited numbers, i was refering to the size of the order not the overall availability of the product.
and also I mis-read a post in the 10th group buy, so ignore the "(again)" comment it was factually incorrect.
and by "late to the tread" - I meant exactly that...late to see this particular thread. Not the previous 10. e.g. They go away for a few days and come back to see a GB has been and gone.