About iPhone 12 pre-order

If you pre-order in a 1 hour and 43 minutes from now, your order goes through including your payment information, you select store pickup, and you get a confirmation that it will be available on October 23, 2020, then there will be a phone there with your name on it. You may have to be in a line, but it will be one for people doing store pickups for held phones, yours won't be sold.

I guess you could go into the store and use one of their computers to log in and order it on line. Depending on where you are you should be able to select store pickup when you order it.