If your store approves it (up to the manager), you can get them to process the backorder and apply the PCE at the same time. I did this with the inlaid Peyton. The backorder is a separate trans, and they have to select to apply PCE, so sometimes they won't for whatever reason....they don't know how to select it from the menu, or the store says their policy is not to do that. Some stores will PA and some won't too...but if you have to PA after the event, try to get them to write a note on the receipt in case they forget or the SA is not there when you go back for the adjustment. I asked for either/or (apply PCE now or PA later, but preferably do PCE now) for the inlaid, and the manager actually said no to writing the note on the receipt, but I could just "come back" for a PA at any time (yeah right, believing that one, LOL!). However, applying the PCE during the actual backorder was also ok by him. The latter was what I wanted anyway, so it was fine.

If I went to another store in my area, they would say PA only, and if I went to yet another store in my area, they would say no to PCE on backorders period, lol! So sometimes you just have to ask around or ask different people in the same store till you get a "yes". I actually told the SA what I preferred, but she had to ask for permission and said she had never seen how to apply the PCE before during the backorder...so you might have to show them.