People need to get over being butt hurt about watists. Be them “official” or otherwise. It would serve is right if Fractals response were “fine, no more waitlists. You can order it when we make it available in the store”.
Many manufacturers have done just that, doing away with wait list, deposits etc. They simply say when they have stock, they will list in their Reverb store, first come first served. Many have also raised the prices up to lessen the issue with people getting on a wait list for a rare pedal, buying it for $400 then flipping it for $800, to find someone who doesn't want to wait.
When it comes down to it, a wait list, like FAS is doing, really isn't doing them any favors, its more work on their end, and lets face it, if they had 500 units in stock, and they simply set the web store to take the first 500 orders, those would all sell just fine. Then you'd have folks hitting F5 every 20 minutes trying to catch the next time it says "in stock" and order all those.
Gets rid of "position on the list" threads etc. First come, first serve, be at the right place at the right time when it says in stock and you get one. If you missed out, you wait til they show up in stock again, maybe catching that shipment, or maybe that shipment is large enough that it remains in stock for a while. When I buy something a any other music retailer, if its out of stock, they say they can send me an email its back in stock, but they don't promise a place, "hold one" for me etc.
Who knows, maybe FAS will take your advise and say "no wait list next time"