I wouldn’t be surprised Joe if some of your suspicions were correct.
Tom, Amazon doesn’t charge your credit card until your stuff ships, so no one who ordered and decides to cancel needs a refund. I cancelled my order. I would have kept it on as I just wanted to change the quantities I ordered (I had ordered some extra as gifts assuming they would be released when indicated), but Amazon didn’t want to let me change the quantities, so I just cancelled my order.