I have an early Thursday morning Zoom session involving the UN and Vatican that brings together a unique group of global leaders where I am a presenter. My eyes were fixed on trying to get the new iPad in time to resolve some of the issues experienced in previous like Zoom sessions with my current iPad. Various posts on this forum + responses from CDW seemed to make the CDW imminent delivery believable.
Unfortunately, I cancelled an existing BB order because my office gives me grief when two such charges land in the same month and the CDW charge went through very quickly. In view of a promised date of 5/21, I worried about a point of no return notice from BB for whatever date. In the meantime, I noticed that even yesterday BB promised a 5/21 delivery for my configuration that had been ordered on 5/3 since I missed the only real opportunity for early delivery directly from Apple when doing a pre-order on 4/30.
I have gone through many of these rituals with Apple, but forsook my own guardrails due to the May 20 obsession. I do, however, feel justified in pointing to the misleading information from CDW.