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by berberous 3739 days ago
Check your spam folder or promotions tab. If you ordered within 5 minutes you almost certainly got the "1-3 weeks" email. Based on recent tweets from Palmer, the first pre-orders are targeted to start shipping Wednesday, so I assume cards will start getting charged by Tuesday or Wednesday.
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I went through their forums, I have an order number of 26xxxxx, apparently some people in this range have received the emails, but most haven't from the looks of it. Oh well, I guess I'll get it in a couple weeks :(
Are the order numbers serial? They can't have received 2.6 mil orders, right? :O
Some interesting reading on this sort of thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

The serials seem to have started at xxxxxxx23xxxxx. I'm not sure how serial they are after that, but that puts things on the high-end estimate at hundred of thousands, not millions.
They almost certainly aren't serial, for example, there seems to be a chunk of zeroes that are fixed removing at least a few digits.