As many other members, I'd appreciate an opportunity to order with cheap no-bidding model as well. But, lets wait a few more weeks - as soon as some known clowns spamming all the internet with their offers to buy a pendingdelete domains develop scripts to automatically pre-order everything with pheenix - it will be the "end of the game". Common domainers would be unable to order anything reasonable. Furthermore, with limited resources (the resources are never unlimited), and without an ability to dynamically allocate the resources based on number of preorders - domain quality, pheenix will become the 2nd godaddy in sense of dropcatching.
I hate to say this, but, pheenix management, please, switch to auction model ASAP.
Do we need another auction service? Yes, we do. If it has ethics. No whois spamming. No publishing of most active preorders lists - should respect members intellectual property. No halvarez. Just to name a few points...