Being an elite member means nothing. I was here the moment they dropped, and I spent an hour and 40 minutes fighting the site on the very last click to confirm my order well after my address/payment details, literally one button was the difference between getting the card and not, and for almost 2 hours it just crashed and failed constantly, and when it stopped crashing and finally took the click, they were gone and it removed it from my cart.
So don't think that being an elite member gains you anything, it doesn't... many of us didn't get a card and the server can't handle the load.