Also not received an email confirming my shares  - but not worried as friedcat did say he'd not finished them due to the hardware arriving.

Will be interesting to see how many BFL pre-orders get cancelled soon as ASICMINER starts mining - as when the chance to be first mining vanishes there's no real reason to pay the heavily inflated prices first batches of ASICs are being sold for (to cover development costs).  Am hoping friedcat announces target price-points before long - so as to try to grab some of the orders currently sitting with BFL etc.  As the mining should get back development costs, BitFountain should be able to come in at prices around 1/3 the GH/s per $ cost BFL are trying to charge and still make a nice profit if my rough calculations are right.