Blizzard had to cancel some people's orders for The Burning Crusade Collector's Edition due to lack of supply to meet the mass demand. Of course, having 11 million players now, I can see how this might have happened. Of course, I'm going to stick with my paranoid theory that the slimy marketing bastards are just hoarding warehouses full of CE's, may they burn in hell.
I got this info from reading some other message boards of people bemoaning their Blizzard-imposed canceled orders.
I really hope at some point they will make more CE's available to WoW players.
I placed an order for my CE last week from DVDBoxOffice (Canaduh), no fuss, no muss. A couple of days ago, though, I get an email from them saying that there may be a delay and it is recommended to change my order to a regular copy. ***** that. I'll wait, dammit.
Besides, I'm already getting a regular edition that I pre-ordered from EB a while back. If DVDBoxOffice decides to cancel my CE order on me like Blizzard did to some folks, I'll be vexed. But not vexed enough to camp in front of a store waiting until midnight on the 15th to try to score a CE (if they're even available after preorders). I will simply add another notation in my Book of Grudges as I drink my Guinness...fervently looking forward to the release of Warhammer Online.