depends on the store
I was wondering the same thing about Best Buy. The "redemption ticket" sounds like a good idea. I hope this in indeed how it will work so I can stop by before work, get a ticket, then pick it up after work.
Odds are they will play it down to the wire like the original iPad launch. Many best buy locations got their stock LATE Friday night - like 10-11pm. Some didn't even receive accessories or the display models until late on the launch day.
They only give out tickets for what they have in stock. Odds are - fedex will be instructed to deliver stock AFTER NOON - so they will only have it in-store a few hours in advance which will make it hard to give out tickets.
The validity of the tickets may vary by store. On wifi ipad launch day they gave us tickets that were only good for about an hour after they opened. Mainly because they had about 60 of them, and there were only 10 of us in line an hour before they opened.
While BestBuy is trying to play by
rules -- there are a lot of 'rebel' stores out there that will try to make their own rules (including their own return policies). Thus,
and BestBuy are probably going to closely control the 'product' to help ensure that the stores play by the rules (aka 5pm)...