I'm on the westcoast where you would think that they are widely available, but they are not, my local gamestops have nothing in stock except non bundle 1tb slims on 5.50, and after the initial batch of days of play systems were sold out in stores and online they had a second sale and sold the remaining ones within hours.
so gamestop literally has no systems in my area or online that are under 5.50 because they are also updating on used systems to latest firmware now. There policy has gotten so strict the most stores wont even let you see the system in its box untill after you paid for it, they literally took a picture of the box to show me instead of letting me see there systems, and have to squint just to see the model number.