The way I personally do it... once I hit that order button it is placed in the order tab whether or not the money has been taken out or not. Like for example today I pre-ordered Mutant X: The Complete Series... it don;t come out till October... but I have it in my ordered tab already... as it is ordered.

In my opinion it don;t have to be paid for to be ordered.

I'm with Pete and North on this. If I'm only thinking of buying a DVD, it will go in my wish list. But if I've actually placed an order, even for a prerelease, then it will go into my Ordered List. Even though the Vendor has not yet charged me for it, I've already adjusted my budget to account for the expense.

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I'm torn as to whether I should put them in the Wish List tab (as they haven't been officially purchased yet - the vendor posts the charge when they ship) or in the Ordered tab.

All orders are only charged for when they ship. So if you don't use ordered tab for orders (not yet paid) what would you use that tab for?

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It's completely up to you - there is no right or wrong way of doing it.

100% agree; FWIW for pre-orders I move them to ordered but set the 'purchase date' to the release date rather than the date I ordered them, so that I know in which order (and about when) my orders will arrive.
When the order is sent (or arrived if I didn't check earlier) I change the date to the day it was sent out, as that's when I consider them 'mine' even if they're in the post.

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If you upload your collection, the DVD's on the ordered tab are listed in your collection. Since they are only ordered, I don't have them yet, and I don't feel they should be in my online collection.

Though they do appear in your collection only under the ordered tab, not under owned. FWIW even titles in the wishlist are considered 'in your collection' for purposes of voting as well, so it's up to you to use common sense when voting on titles you don't yet actually have in your possession... if you see an update saying somthing you can't check or are not sure of just vote neutral. If you see one that puts up better covers for example it's easy to see if they're correct and an improvement so I feel happy to vote (though each to their own!).
Of course this facility is absolutely vital for pre-release titles otherwise nobody would be able to download any of these (and instead you get the annoying situation of lots of people updating the profile with massively overlapping data when it's released, often exacerbated by the fact they don't check what else has been contributed before they contribute themseleves sometimes because they can't since thre is no pre-release profile to check against.)

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Quoting cvermeylen:

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If you upload your collection, the DVD's on the ordered tab are listed in your collection. Since they are only ordered, I don't have them yet, and I don't feel they should be in my online collection.

Though they do appear in your collection only under the ordered tab, not under owned.

They also appear under the "All" tab, but not under "Owned."

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Then when I receive the DVD I use the Add_DVD tab to move the profile from ordered to owned by UPC, assuring that I have the profile by UPC that matches by DVD, sometimes a title may have more than one UPC. If this is the case I then copy my personal data to the correct profile and remove the incorrect profile.
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why not just update the UPC number if the correct number is different and then refresh the profile?

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I use the ordered tab this way also, but I have 1 issue with it. If you upload your collection, the DVD's on the ordered tab are listed in your collection. Since they are only ordered, I don't have them yet, and I don't feel they should be in my online collection.

Just go to My Profiler -> Online Colection and uncheck the Show in Public Listing | Ordered box.
Remember that as long as you are logged in, you may see more than others that check your collection.