The Passport was at U$ 500 only for a sale period in the US. The normal (sale) price is U$ 599. Full price would be U$699.-That's for the black version- If you did read it well, dejanh gave the value in CAD which points to Canada shop/location. And he bought the red one which is about U$100 more expensive. Hope that explains his reaction.
@ dejanh: You may have bought about a dozen of PP and have probably made similar number of complaint and/or enquiries for returning and exchanging for proper new products. Perhaps they messed it up getting confuse as your name appears as many different entries in their system. If this is true, it further explains how scre* up they are.