Gareee do you have anything actually constructive to add to this conversation besides your own baseless speculation? Go fanboy elsewhere, CAG is not a place for that.
If you will have 100$ at BB to 'seed' your purchase chain you should start there... otherwise you are already out 45$ cash at Amazon. However... keep in mind the RZ points take 35 days to convert to rewards certs.
I know they had the issues where if you preorder but then at pickup the store returns the preorder for $5 it screws up all the bonuses. You might check your account and if it doesn't show the 1000 pending points contact customer service.
So a little context. I have contacted EA 4 times over the past 3 weeks trying to cancel my Mass Effect 2 order.
Here is the transcript from my latest chat. Talk about awful CS!