That's a simplistic way to read the incomplete information. My take away from following the threads is that the distributors applied for an allocation and started taking deposits for machines on their application. When JJP came back with the actual allocations, there were less than the distributors had expected. May or may not be that people could order direct from JJP it affected the numbers, i suspect not.
More strange to me is that i have my name on the CE eoi list in Australia, and although i have heard someone say England is getting 9 machines, the aussie agent is not saying they have any at all, let alone publishing a list of who was in first.
JJP has gone so far as to vet all orders now to make sure that people are not ordering extra's by ordering from more than one source in order to sell their allocation(s) at a profit (and good on them).