when you hear that this item has to be backordered, it means you're fucked. often it's a smaller piece infrequently needed for a larger thing, but will be critical for your needs. is not being massively shipped to every convenient location near you, may have fallen out of favor over time. comes from like one place far away, and often takes it's sweet time to travel, because the company seems to not care to expedite it. it's like they don't really care about selling it anymore.
The feeling of a dick up your ass from a presumably reputable, albeit asshole, company that doesn't care for the blue-collar working class. Depending on the demand for the product and their mood on that day, they can decide to postpone the back-order from a week to several months.
n. Not in stock but some more are coming; aka: you're going to keel over before they actually get it in stock because they have your money already and don't give a shit if you get the product.
something you bought online that is not in stock and you will have to wait months and months to receive your merchandise. you will be very pissed.
wow, the relapse website said my cephalic carnage shirt was in stock when i purchased it, but what i got was an email saying that they received my payment but the item is backordered. god this sucks ass.