Just to clarify a few points:
1. What resellers do/do-not accept pre-orders for any product is outside of the control of Team Xodus. If they choose to put up pre-orders, that's their call. If they choose not to, again, it's nothing to do with us. We cannot make decisions on behalf of the reseller.
2. The adapter is ready, here, now, and will be in the hands of the customers (you) as soon as possible. Keep in mind that they basically need to go from factory to warehousing to distribution to the resellers, to be repackaged as their pre-orders are processed, and then re-shipped out to you..... This is not an overnight process and, again, is not in Team Xodus' hands. We are doing our best to hurry things along, but you have to understand that after production begins, and we make the product announcement, everything is left up to the supply chain..... and it's not a short chain.
3. The adapter WILL be compatible with x3. The adapter pictured is what is shipped with the S.P.ICE package, and does not have the full set of pogos, as it is obviously intended for use with the ICE that it's shipped with. Individual adapters will have the full set of pogos (notice the holes for them on the adapter!) for X3 compatability.
Have I missed any other issues which need to be addressed?
--Artifex