It's sold already... And about cutting the usb cable. I think it's different in each country, or it matters on the guy whos sitting behind the phone. When he took a look at my broken G, he was like "I'm not sure, if it's enough, gimme a sec, will ask... yes, my assistant says it's broken very well.". Simply, they wouldn't give me a new one if I would cut only the cable. But for example WarLock, he saw writing me about this and his G25 was broken a little too, or started to be broken... so he asked me about the thing a lot and tried to call the Logitech support in his country. Now he has also new G25 from Monday . Logitech rocks!