I know lots of us pre-ordered David's album on Amazon. Just wanted to give you all a heads-up, if you haven't already received their email, that you will need to re-confirm your order in the next 4 weeks or so or they will automatically cancel your order!

Yes, and you are good to warn everyone, BLake. But isn't that a silly set-up? Pre-order an album that hasn't been written yet, okay, that makes sense, but then Amazon applies the same rules to it as to existing music, that's where I go, "huh?"

Guess I'll have to keep an eye on my pre-order of "Paper Soldiers", then - that doesn't come out until September of 2009!

Very silly set-up, davidisdevine. Makes absolutely no sense to me. But the #s are important to David and his team (and hey! I want an ACTUAL CD of that baby), so I'll play Amazon's silly game. lol....

Yo, T.C.! Where ya been? Nice to see you.

Can you shed light on this for me? Do i need to wait for their email ( haven't received any yet) or go straight to amazon.com and reconfirm my order? THanks a lot

Edna

I just clicked the link in the email they sent, but I'm on the phone with amazon right now and will report back.

All for David and making sure his preorder #s stay healthy & accurate!

Edit: Amazon Customer Service says:

1. You will get a request to confirm your pre-order *one month* from the date you placed the order.
2. Click the "Confirm" link in that email.
3. OR you can call Amazon customer service to confirm it at any time. (I used the push to talk feature, and it was EASY! Unfortunately, there is nothing proactively to confirm it online.)

Think it's really important that we confirm the orders if we really want the CDs. The record company looks at these numbers, and it's a huge indicator to future opportunity for David. So, let's support David and confirm those orders that we really want to happen! The upside of pre-orders is . . . just like with Harry Potter . . . they should arrive on your doorstep the day of release. So, no schlepping out to the stores and making time to do so on that magical Tuesday. It should just arrive.

Thanks for staying positive and supporting David.

I, for one, am NOT re-ordering the album! Numbers be damned!..I am totally fed up with every provider of items which the public desperately wants, limiting their production so that they turn us into hungry animals. I will have David's album when it comes out and when it is readily available.

If he and idol want the numbers up, then he and they can just create and release whatever compilation of stuff they have RIGHT NOW! None of us care how perfect his first album is. We just want his stuff. Heck, he could just talk and create an album of conversation and we'd buy it! I know that isn't what he wants to do, but part of his charisma is his relationship with those of us who put him where he is. If he becomes some pompous artisan who strives for perfection and tosses all that we consider sacred into file 13, he'll be tossing our wishes there as well.

When did you receive this email? I haven't received any notification from Amazon.

One month from order date. Customer Service says that is when the system automatically kicks them out.

I just got the email yesterday, so I went to the site and re-confirmed.

I thought it was kind of stupid too, they let me pre-order it, then they want to cancel it. Arghhh!

This is weird. Didn't I already pay for it? Why would they cancel an order that I already paid for?

Hmmm . . . On amazon, I think it bills when shipped. I pre-ordered and didn't get charged.

Oh, and I did ask if we'd keep getting these confirms every month until Oct/Nov, and they said "probably not" but couldn't guarantee it. With a long lead-time like this, we may yet get more . . . lovely. Good to know.

I like that you always have a unique viewpoint. I may not have the same viewpoint (hence my use of the word "unique") but I will defend to the death your right to have yours!

Why, Thanks David'sDevine! Do you have a clue who this is? (hint, GravyGirl1)

It really is insane but that is how Amazon operates. You can order an album months in advance and assuming that the release date (whatever that may end up being doesn't change) for one reason or another, you may not end up getting the CD by the release date. You may actually end up receiving it 2-3 days after the release date. Sometimes if you are lucky, you will get it the day before the release date. Amazon is fickle like that. LOL I would almost rather pre-order from Wal-Mart when the time gets a little closer when we get a firm idea of when the actual date will be.

The last two pre-order I got from Amazon I received a full week before the date so I will happily re-order. David's album will drop whenever he is ready for it to and I for one am quite happy to wait until he is satisfied with it. I have plenty of other diversions to keep me going.

I haven't received an e-mail yet but when it comes I will happily re-confirm. One click of the mouse is not going to kill me. It sounds like random Amazon stuff and remember the album doesn't come out for five more months anyway.

I didn't pre-order it because I don't know where I'll be living when it's released.

I don't mind waiting; it'll get here when it gets here.

Okay... I ordered mine less than one month ago so that's why I didn't receive the email (yet). I checked online in my Amazon account and it is still listed as an open order for me.

I just checked and I ordered mine on May 30th so I guess I'll get the email tomorrow. I have no problem, though, confirming my order -- I'm sure they just want to make sure that all those initial orders were legit and not just people trying to run up the numbers. I don't think it was any kind of conspiracy to make us jump through hoops or try to keep us from buying the CD.

I got my email this morning and did what I needed to do to let them know I was still interested in keeping the order. It is no big deal. It is just a system put in place by Amazon for any kind of order that has been in their system a certain amount of time. The reason it is important to preorder this CD is to keep the buzz up. That fact that so many CDs have been preordered looks great for him.

And, to answer someone's question...you haven't paid for it yet.

Jeannine

I received my email from Amazon as well and just went up on the order and reconfirmed that I still wanted the CD.

I didn't receive an email, but when I logged in to their website, I saw what you are talking about. Thanks for the heads up. One thing I don't get, even through the price of the CD has dropped to $9.99, when I reconfirmed it the price was still listed as $18.99

If I lived in the US I don't think I would bother with the pre-order since the CD should be readily available in many stores as soon as it is released. Amazon.com takes forever to ship things here to me, I may have to wait upwards of a month before I actually receive the CD. I know I wouldn't be able to wait that long, so I expect I will be paying twice (downloading the songs off ITunes while waiting for the CD to arrive). Kind of sucks!

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Send them an email to their customer service. They will change it.

Hey guys ... I wouldn't order or purchase direct from Wal-Mart just yet. Here's why: if the album contains any degree of salaciousness or profanity, Wal-Mart has a policy where they will sell an edited alternate G-rated version provided by the record company, or not offer it for sale. Case in point: my adult daughter and I purchased Justin Timberlake's FutureSexLoveSounds the day it was released while we were traveling in Arizona, even though I'd already pre-ordered it for her on amazon. The version we bought at Wal-Mart was heavily edited, and ruined the experience for us listening to the CD for the first time, and there was no notice on the packaged product to tell us it was an edited version. I wrote Jive records, I believe that is his label, and never received a reply back. So, I just don't purchase recorded music from Wal-Mart. Ever again.

I used to work for amazon for like 5 years as a member of infrastructure here in Seattle, and you're right, sometimes they will ship out the release in advance of the sale date, sometimes they won't. I know with print media (the Harry Potter series) they will try to ship the exceptionally popular pre-orders so that they ensure customers have them in their hands the date of release, AS LONG AS THE DISTRIBUTOR GETS PRODUCT TO THE WAREHOUSE ON TIME TO DO THAT.

However, I believe the final pre-order numbers will likely be a deciding factor on whether they ship product early, that and plus whether the distributor gets the product to their warehouses early enough to ship out and have in customer's hands on the date of release.

Generally speaking, it's not typically up to amazon to decide to ship early, other than pre-sale numbers, but rather the distributor and the record company. They have to be sure product is available to ship early.