Apple Thoughts: Verizon Pre-Orders Start February 3rd at 3am Eastern

"It appears that at least some existing Verizon customers will be spooning instant coffee directly into our mouths and shoving match embers between our finger webbing next Wednesday night: the Verizon iPhone preorders will begin at 3am EST on February 3rd."

And by pre-orders they mean to existing customers only. You will also have to have your My Verizon account all set up to take advantage of this limited offering, since they are only going to offer it to a certain undetermined number of existing customers for some reason. Seems odd, why not let all of your existing customers pre-order? Are they expecting to have server problems much like what Apple and AT&T have experienced in the past and hope to limit the damage? What are your thoughts?