So here's the rub: I preordered at Sam's Club on the 4th, got an email saying I'm on the waitlist. I call today and they say they have no record of me preordering. Great. I go in and show them my confirmation email and they put a post-it note with my name on one of the Note 7 boxes. (She opened it up to show me it was Silver and I almost grabbed it and ran. So beautiful).
I set an appointment to come in and activate tomorrow morning at 11am. She said it's mine as long as someone who's on their preorder "list" (which I should be on but I'm not) doesn't call in to claim it. There are 4 of them, so all 4 would have to be claimed for me to get bumped off. It's dumb, yes, because I preordered so long ago and for whatever reason I'm not on the list, but she was very nice and helpful, and I have my fingers crossed that 4 out of the 15 on her list don't call back to confirm they're coming in tomorrow. If they do, I'm screwed, because I canceled my Best Buy preorder.
Good news is that out of the 15 on the list, she said around 5 were for AT&T and 5 for Verizon. So really, the 5 left on the list are for Sprint.