I know, but there's a group of 7 of us who want to sit together and only I recieved the letter today, none of them are 'long standing fans' and none have previously owned ST's.
Yep, I received a letter like this today, my name starts with a C so it's possibly alphabetical. I won't actually be buying one at the presentation as I will be buying on with my group of friends when they go on public sale, but I'll go to a presentation anyway to inspect!