Maybe he was joking that Jack couldn't build anymore. Thus making the ones already built worth more?

You seem quite sure of yourself. The bottom line is there is an issue causing games not to be shipped. That is an immutable fact. Parts delays, manufacturing issues, assembly problems, hell a leaky roof. Either way, those are valid explainations. For the life of me, I am at a loss to understand why any of those valid reasons haven't been thrown out to explain the glitch in shipping. Its imperative to stay out in front of problems. Silence leaves people to to start assuming bad things. So why the silence for a month? In my line of work, silence never, never equals everything is going swimmingly. In fact it usualy means all hell is breaking loose. Sometimes the most obvious reason is the most inconvenient one.

...and this is coming from someone who just bought a woz yesterday.