Sent to vendor, waiting on product...

I logged into my freepay (refresher: the free iPod dudes) account just for fun to see if anything had changed. Seems my status has gone from 'processing' to 'Sent to vendor, waiting on product'. No idea what this means, but I guess they're implying they use a 3rd party vendor to actually send out the product and/or they get their iPods from a 3rd party vendor then they send them out to their 'customers' i.e. me. I can see why it's necessary to 'wait for product' especially given the worldwide shortage of iPods. I mean, it's so hard to find these things nowadays.