Well, I didn't want to just buy it because, honestly, I don't feel like it's worth $299, or even $199. It has a bigger screen, supposedly better keyboard, an audio jack and a good speaker phone (those last two I could really do well without), and I just don't see those features as being worth that much of my money. But if I can get it for say... $80-$100, then that's a different story...
By the way, we found a Verizon plan that's close enough to the one that we had before. In the end, we'll lose about 1500 minutes off of our plan (it's a 4000 minute plan; before we had 5500), but anyway, we don't even use more than 2500 minutes a month, so it works out in the end. So it looks like I'll be getting my TP2 soon, if they don't try to tell me that it's not in stock that is.