I'm pretty sure that if you deffer (can't order now) that you don't lose your place.

For the person who was confused, the queue is not to recieve your player once ordered. The queue is to wait to be able to order, but they have only been taking orders when players were available to ship almost immediately.

They are supposed to run through the queue fairly quickly now. I think they expect to be through the queue of 16000 is about 2 months or less (of course they wont ship 16000 empegs, because of cases like yours).