I don't know if that still holds, but beside the obvious criteria, most obviously date of purchase, since those corona-caused supply shortages also type of keyboard, specific shippings sometimes were also being grouped by destination region. And whatever it was – although I suppose Fxtec really tried, it became clear quite soon that they couldn't really guarantee that shippings unfailingly follow date of purchase (it never was order number anyway, but in this case it is obvious that there must be many #3xxxx orders still open which were paid before any #48xxx order, too, mine being one of them, as I paid order #36xxx the day I placed it, if I remember correctly).
COVID has really screwed with things regarding shipping, I've done a lot of orders in the last few days (Including a Pro1, Order #55xxx) and yeah, some places you simply can't ship to/from at the moment for a reasonable cost. (eg. I've got some used PC parts coming, PhysX PPU from Texas? No problem. Radeon x1950Pro from England? Not an issue. A second x1950Pro from Germany? Fifty Euros to ship to Australia because we have to pay for premium shipping to get DHL to ship here.)
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the skipped over orders had something along those lines going on. It really should be communicated, though.
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COVID has really screwed with things regarding shipping, I've done a lot of orders in the last few days (Including a Pro1, Order #55xxx) and yeah, some places you simply can't ship to/from at the moment for a reasonable cost. (eg. I've got some used PC parts coming, PhysX PPU from Texas? No problem. Radeon x1950Pro from England? Not an issue. A second x1950Pro from Germany? Fifty Euros to ship to Australia because we have to pay for premium shipping to get DHL to ship here.)
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the skipped over orders had something along those lines going on. It really should be communicated, though.