Hi

It was the most complicated way possible of doing something simple.

I preorder things from Amazon all the time.  I just place my order, when the item becomes available they ship it and bill my credit card.

My guess is that this was done this way to get some money into the company ahead of the release.  

I don't think it's strictly legal to charge for something before it can be shipped, so to get around that they sell the Coupon for $79.99.

You aren't purchasing the software you are purchasing a credit, like a gift certificate.

This allowed them to get an influx of cash in a hurry, why else go through all of this.

If they has actually sent out all the e-mails the morning of release it would have helped a lot, the e-mail I got from support cleared it all up in a minute, but I never got one until I asked.

Mike

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