I'm new to these boards - please forgive me of the error of my ways.
I placed a pre-order on AT&T's Premier site at approximately 12:45pm CDT on the 15th, and received an e-mail order confirmation shortly after.
(I had to use the Premier site because I was upgrading an existing phone and our family gets service discounts via a FAN authorization.)
I also received a bank notification that AT&T had charged my card later on Wednesday, but that pending charge has since rolled off.
My Premier status still says Processing and the standard order status page says 1 on backorder. The weird thing is that I have two different order numbers - one on the Premier page and one on the standard order status page. The standard order status page says the order was entered on the 16th.
Who knows when I will receive it. Multiple people are saying they've contacted AT&T and they're saying the equivalent of "don't worry, your order is in and it'll arrive" - but we've heard so much from AT&T how can we possibly believe it all?
My big question is where AT&T is shipping them from. Apple is shipping them from the production plant overseas - but AT&T typically ships their phone orders from Ft Worth, TX.