So, my wife and I pre-ordered two Note 8's on 09/01. Up until earlier today, saw "pre-order shipping 09/13-09/15." I got a text from my credit card company, Barclay Bank, that they denied transaction due to possible fraud alert. This is literally the first time I have ever had a potential fraud alert. Within two minutes I called Barclay bank, and told them this is a legitimate order. They cleared teh block, and told me that I would need to contact T-Mobile to re-attempt. I call T-Mobile and talk with a lady and she saw the denied charge. I explain it was the bank who blocked it, and has since removed the block. The Te-Mobile girl had me re-read my credit card info. I specifically asked if this would impact our order, and not put us at the end of the order queue (keep in mind it had only been max 15 minutes from the denied transaction until I had proactively re-verified with her that my bank was good to go.) Somewhere this afternoon, now my order shows "Order status: Backordered
Estimated to ship: 10/03/2017-10/17/2017." I get it, that they need paying customers, however am not very happy with basically being automated to the back of the line with no grace of at least a few minutes to clear up something that could happen to anyone at their banks discretion.