Quoted from johngravenews:spent cash on several NIBs
Please do not confuse pre-order with NIB. NIB is buying a pin that is built and sitting somewhere waiting for you to buy it. Your experience seems to be mainly pre-order. And yeah, pre-order sucks.
To keep your NIB experience a little better, wait a few months until the code is updated at least once, then buy.
Edit - OP is up to 58 downvotes in 8 hours. Gotta be some sort of record.