Has anyone placed an order with Provantage or BLT Corp. using a debit card? Their prices are attractive, but the aforementioned issue with locking funds in debit card accounts makes me nervous. It can take days, even up to a week for those funds to be released. I am waiting to hear back from both outfits on their exact policies in that regard.

My usual strategy for ordering a soon-to-be-released gadget is to place orders with various e-tailers, leave only enough to cover the cost of one in my debit account and let whoever can ship first have my business. I then promptly cancel the other orders, of course