I haven't really been following the whole Commodore USA thing too much but whatever you think about the way they do business, you have to give them credit for a least getting a 'new' HW product produced and in punter's hands.
Except this Punter. (Isn't that a transfer protocol?)
I have read plenty of people who have gotten their 64X and VICs and the reviews have been mixed. As stated somewhere else, the magic was in the discovery at the time they originally existed. Anything else is just a boob job.