Got and iPhone X, Space Gray, 256GB. Ordered at 2:50 EST, confirmation Email received at 2:55 EST.
This was the best iPhone pre-order experience I have ever had, I have always ordered on the Verizon website. Been Pre-ordering since the iPhone 5. It is usually so slow and crashy. The 5 and 6 I managed to get on launch day. Last year for the 7+ JB 256 it took 30 min to get the order in and then was pushed back a month. This time I had 3 different browsers open and the Verizon App. I was trying them all none stop starting at 2:20am EST. IE I had logged in and was trying the splash page clicking the order now button (would just keep saying come back at 3:01), from Firefox I was logged out and click the order button from the start (this would let me choose the phone configuration but then would kick me back and say come back at 3:01), The app was showing a countdown on the feed the whole time, I was also trying from the device and shop tab in the App starting an upgrade but would always kick back to 3:01, from Chrome I logged in and kept choosing upgrade device and choosing the iPhone X. At first it was kicking me back then at around 2:50 EST it let me add it to the cart while the other methods were still not working. It was a quick smooth process. Took me less than 3 min to complete. I got my confirmation email right after at 2:55 EST before the apple site had even come back up. This was the first pre-order I got lucky and got in before the rush and did not have to fight a laggy crashing site.