IPhone 6 Plus 128 Availability Updates (will be updating as I continue making contact with Verizon and Apple retailers)

Question

I figure I would compile a list of things I have heard from Verizon reps as well as Apple retailers for anyone curious
First Contact:  Verizon Wireless Preorder 9/12 for 6+ 128 Space Gray made at 12:17am PST at full-retail.  Small chat with representative about placing order.  "Deliver By: 9/19" throughout ordering and on confirmation page.  Email confirmation 1:52am, with delivery date changed to 10/7.
Second Contact:  Online Chat with Verizon rep about order.  Verizon rep confirms nothing more than what the email stated, and what the "Status Update" on the VZW Website provides (an infinite "your order is processing, no shipping date available").
Third Contact:  Direct message to Verizon rep.  Also completely useless.  Does not provide any more information regards shipment.
Fourth Contact:  Call up Verizon Customer Service.  Woman reiterates shipment date, but also adds that my order processed at 1:52am - the same time my email confirmation was sent.  So 2+2 means that whenever confirmation emails are received is when your order is processed.
Fifth Contact:   Call up Verizon Customer Service again.  Ask more about my shipment and why it would be that others who placed their orders for the exact copy of my phone after me, received tracking numbers before me.  Was told that it depends on which warehouse your order was sent to.  Some warehouses have more of certain phones than others.  Ask what the random number for my order location translated to geographically (city, state) and was told that as part of a non-disclosure agreement that information cannot be released.
Sixth Contact:  Call up local Verizon Wireless Retail Location.  Representative states that 6+ 128 models will not be available in store at all for 9/19.  Suggests that perhaps Best Buy will have the phone in stock on release day.
Seventh Contact: Call up Best Buy and manager was kind enough to explain that pre-orders made through Best Buy are actually pulling from the inventory from the store.  Also explains that 6+ models are not even able to be pre-ordered because of lack of supply via Apple and therefore will not be in store locations at all.
Eighth Contact:  Call up different Verizon Wireless Retail Location.  Representative explains that in-store locations will not know which models will be available in-store until the night before, because the shipments have not been made yet, much less fulfilled.
Ninth Contact: Call up ANOTHER Vzw Retail Location.  This was the most helpful representative of all.  This rep explains that no matter WHAT kind of shipment the corporate stores receive, these phones are reserved for people who upgrade/add a new line/etc, and will not be sold to people who opt for the month-to-month option for full retail.
Tenth Contact:  Call up another Best Buy location.  Rep doesn't know much of anything.
Eleventh Contact:  Call up Apple Store located inside of a mall (because I cannot feasibly wait in a line overnight; I have twin 18mos old sons, so an in-mall location seems like my best option).  Rep does not know what mall procedure will be as far as lining up.  Does not know quantity of phones coming, but does know that EVERY model will be available for purchase at first-come-first-serve.
Twelfth Contact:  Call up another in-mall Apple Store location.  No lines inside of mall (duh), and nearest entrance door will be opened prior to mall hours at 8am.  All models will be available for purchase in store in unknown quantities.  Check out process takes 15-20 minutes, including transfer of all information from one phone to the new phone.  If I do not want to wait in line in store, I can call the store location and make my order over the phone at 8am and pick it up in store later that day with my confirmation number and ID.
So that's that then.  I plan to try and get my hands on a phone this Friday by going to an indoor Apple location, and if I am successful I will be cancelling my Verizon order regardless if I get a tracking number by then or not (although I doubt I will).  I know that most VZW Reps are responding from prompts, but you think that the prompts would provide the same response for the same questions, or even that Verizon would have come out with an official statement regards this whole mess.  I guess that's asking for too much, though.
What's everybody else's plans and experiences?  Inspired or made aware of anything from my experiences?

Answer 1

Yeah, that's a possibility but after the responses from the Apple locations and the guarantee that my model will be available for purchase at FCFS, I don't think I'll have much to do with Verizon locations regards it all.
I think the reason you're receiving yours on Friday is you are east coast whereas I am west coast.  I think there was some truth to the Fifth Contact's response and that it also depends on the warehouse the order is coming from.  My warehouse is more than likely different than yours and probably has a larger demand/smaller supply than your warehouse.
I live in Southern California, and my county alone has 3.1M people.  The four surrounding counties have 10M people, 2.3M people, 2.1M people, and 3.2M people.  iPhone is king out here as far as phones, so I'm chalking it up to supply/demand in my warehouse, and that my order was processed much later than many others in my area.
I'll check back on my order tomorrow and Thursday, but unless I have a notice that shows it going out for delivery on Friday by being at my local FedEx facility, I'm going to an Apple store, getting a phone there, and cancelling my order with Verizon.