I have a Vive on order, but I don't see any delays.
HTC said Vive would start shipping/arriving on April 5 and it did. Every day since then they have been shipping orders to customers. HTC never promised folks a specific day they would receive their order. The order confirmation E-mail either says your Vive will ship in April or May.
If HTC ships all the April orders by April 30th, they will be on schedule. Too many impatient customers assumed that 100% of the April shipments would happen the week of April 5th, which is not what HTC said.
Dan, is that you?
HTC started processing a bunch of people around midnight in the 31st March - including me and some others on here. This would be in line with the them shipping in time to arrive on 5th April. But many orders were blocked by the banks, likely because of the way digital river presented them.
On Saturday morning HTC sent out an email letting those people know there was a problem and to talk to your bank so the charge wouldn't be blocked again - they would resubmit soon. Literally a few minutes after that email, they sent another email informing everyone affected that their order was cancelled. Again their fault.
The affected people had to try and get brought to HTC support and get their orders reinstated. We were reassured that we would not lose our place in the queue. This was Saturday for me.
I haven't heard anything since. I haven't heard anyone that had their order wrongly cancelled receive their vive yet - or even shipping info.
So not only have we clearly lost our place in the queue (we were literally processing 8 days ago), we have no idea when they will finally ship and HTC are not able to give us any information either. At this point it seems clear that any units that may have been allocated to us were probably shipped out to PayPal orders - which is another fuck up as no credit card orders at all seemed to ship for a couple of days.
Technically they didn't promise anything but even a tiny bit of reading would give you enough context to understand that we aren't just whining because we thought they'd all arrive in Tuesday, were whining because we've been led up the garden path repeatedly with no end in sight.
(Doesn't help that many of us are in a similar situation with the oculus rift too. Perfect storm of shit at the moment)