So you thought if you ordered 6 hours before one of the most anticipated phones to be released comes out you could have it that day?

Well maybe if you were with Sprint, they had a ton at the store and still had 3 left at the end of the day when my brother in law got his.

anywho...

next time you MUST have the latest thing try to plan ahead.

As for your "signifigant anecdotal evidence" unless it was a verizon employee reading you off a list of who ordered it when and when they got it I dont think you have much "evidence".