I pre-ordered two 64GB versions at 4:30am pacific time through Sprint's website. It went smoothly, but I had to make other changes. I have a family plan currently through them with three lines already, and none of them are upgrade eligible for close to a year now. So I added two lines so I could get the subsidized price on the iphones (2 64GBs adds up) and changed the plan to the Everything Data plan. Went through checkout and noticed that my credit card had been successfully "charged". I knew I was in the clear then. Well, I never got a confirmation email until 1pm which said my order was on hold and to call in to validate. So after work that evening I called them and had to go through a bunch of security questions and then I was told everything was validated and that I should be getting a new confirmation email. The lady I was talking to was clearly brand new at her job and you could hear someone else on the line helping her through the process which didn't make me feel like everything was ok like they said it was. Sure enough, today I check the sprint.com/myorder and it still states that I need validation. It looks like this - Image
So I call again and got someone to recheck my order. He said that my order got "stuck in the system" (whatever that means) but that everything is validated and good to go. He also mentioned that because of the massive amounts of iphone orders they have been processing, that it may take until monday or tuesday before I see that my order has actually been processed online and until then, it will state that my order needs validation. So if anyone else is seeing the "validation" message on their order status even after its been validated, then that is why. He told me my order will still ship on the 14th, so here's to waiting.
Just an update, they cancelled my original order # and issued a new order # for me. It looks like this now,

Everything is looking smooth and its comforting knowing Sprint ironed everything out. All others out there with validation issues should be seeing their orders in the processing stage soon.