lol did anybody on this list get theirs from amazon yet? seems krzy as newegg has had these in stock several times during this period
I think the difference is that Amazon allows sales of items it doesn't have in stock (so it is possible for a backorder queue to build up) and Newegg doesn't do that. So Amazon might have gotten multiple shipments in but if they're still working their way through their backorder queue then it will look to us like they've never gotten anything. While places like newegg will have stock pop up and disappear which is what we've been seeing.
My guess is that Amazon has received cards but they're still working through satisfying the preorders that showed up before ours. fiercedeity is the only one I see so far in this thread that has gotten a shipping confirmation but it was the Sapphire version. I think a lot of us went for the xfx version.
I feel like throwing in the towel and camping newegg for a $308 xfx 5850 but I know as soon as I do that I'll get an Amazon notification.