yes that was my assumption as well. I think people that spent more money on ndc.com got priority as far as access codes go. I even mention that to the tech obviously he wouldn't verify that but I said I would like to purchase more often on nike.com but these last couple years it's been very troublesome and at times impossible. but there's really nothing that I'm looking forward to in this next month, maybe the Jordan 4 lasers partly because the Jordan 4 is my favorite silhouette, so whatever. not the first time I've been dicked over by the system