I've just been on the phone, to convert from standard delivery (their mistake when recreating the order) back to express delivery.

The operator checked what stage my order has reached, and then told me "To be honest, we don't have any in stock right now. There's not much point changing it to express delivery; it won't make that much difference. I can do it if you want to, but it won't start shipping until we've got more stock".

So I left it unchanged.

I asked "when will there be stock?", and she said "to be honest we don't know, but it should only be a few days".

That probably means everyone who's order is in the "has not yet shipped" state is going to be waiting a few more days before shipping starts.

*gulp* we won't even know if the card transactions will go through until then!

It appears the person who recreated my order yesterday (at the raised price) did not tell the truth when he told me there was stock ready to ship to me and my loss of queue position wouldn't matter... I wouldn't have gone ahead with the order if he'd told me the truth. Cheeky buggers.