If your company is a Sprint partner, you can pre-order through the EVP program (
LINK). I did this yesterday.
Regarding telesales, I can't speak from recent experience, but I can speak from what others encounted when the Palm 700p was released by Sprint. Many called telesales only to find out they didn't have it in their computers until later in the day.
My guess would be that it depends on when telesales actually has the option to sell it in their computers. Hopefully they learned from their previous mistakes.