I registered on 9/21 for the 360 camera, got an email on 10/31 saying my gift will ship the week of 11/19 or sooner. I received a shipped email today with tracking.
Try this to get the 1000 points. It worked for me, hope it's still active.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyNote8/comments/79wpx1/1000_bonus_points_in_spay_rewards_for_internet/
It's none now, the Bixby promotion ended on 11/1. I was lucky and got the max 10,000, I started on 9/6 and finished up a few days before the promotion ended.
You don't have to tap power off, you can just say power off again and it will shut down. It gives you the choice to tap power off or say it again to complete the shut down.
My phone with a Whitestone dome glass on it had a fall and cracked the protector. I removed it and the screen was perfect with no glue on the phone, the glue sticks to the protector.