Bought mine online and got confirmation email at 3:31am (est ) September 20th.
I live in Florida.
Ordered an iPhone 32gb champagne, AT&T.
-STILL PROCESSING ITEMS-
It had said delivery est. date oct.8th-11th while I was purchasing,
Now it just says shipping in October. (Vague)
I'm in that boat. Exact same order confirmation time (64gb gold), was 7-10 days while going through the checkout process and slipped to "October" by the time checkout was complete. Sounds like other colors (gray at least) are shipping from that time period, but I imagine the line for Gold is a bit (or a lot) longer.
My order is still "processing", and kind of expect it to be for another 5-7 days at least.