I had an idea as to why the credit card payment stalled but the lady at Newark kept telling me to reply by e-mail.
Screw that after waiting on hold for an hour! I e-mailed Newark alright, I told them to cancel the order!
Anywho, since the lady at Newark didn't want to listen to me, let me tell EEVblog why I think the credit card payment went into "pending" status:
When I was checking out on Newark's website, I noticed as I typed my address, Newark's software started to do that "auto-fill" thing.
My address is "Dixie Trail" but Newark automatically abbreviated it to read "Dixie Trl."
It also added the four numbers after my Zip Code but without a hyphen (-) in-between.
Since I received a confirmation e-mail of the order from Newark, I imagined that all was good.
I believe these "abbreviations" throw up a flag with the banks!
Screw Newark!
Since time was getting short, and I wanted this analyzer by the weekend, I called Digi-Key by phone.
Digi-Key immediately pulled up my name on their computer, charged my credit card and I got instant approval.
I received an e-mail two-hours later from Digi-Key saying my order was shipped along with a tracking number