I agree.. but they would of had to actually hire a real web dev crew to hash up some code to maintain two order flows. Nothing too hard; the 1-500 would retain their original place until 7 day toss out and all the others would of started at 501.
they didn't anticipate how anal everyone would be over this which is a mark against them for not really knowing their customer base

Hey, I'll be as anal as I want to be, jk. Lot of money at stake

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