If BFL doesn't pull some sneaky plan to have "commenced shipments" in 4 days (so Black Friday orders can't be refunded), their refund turns allow them to "put the pre-order for purchase". What if their own Eclipse pool was to take all such orders? Easy way to ramp up their own mining operations at the expense of all the poor customers who stayed with them through every single set back.
Would a company with the morals demonstrated by BFL do such a thing?
They did that to protect their PayPal account last time. This time they won't do anything too obvious remember Sonny V. hangs on a thread for going back to jail. There seems to be only one direction BFL is headed in and that is ruin.