As it is now, orders are automatically in the processing category as soon as they're placed which doesn't really make sense. In my experience, a lot of vendors are marking things as shipped even many days before they really ship them out because there is no other way to communicate that the order is received and in progress.
Today a vendor cancelled and refunded an order that he marked shipped 5 days ago. I was pretty pissed off because he really wasted my time having me thinking it'd be here any day now when I could have been ordering something else.
SQUUUUUWK