New Coins - April Public Release - Venetian Glass Butterfly

I agree with Rockdaddy. At least Gatewest isn't a scam job like Colonial Acres....they pretend they don't know how many glass butterfly they are getting...but everything else from the release is for sale? No doubt they will not sell ANY at issue price. CROOKS.

Tristen1230
What has changed with this new release, it's been the same story for every hot coin over the last year or so, nothing new to see here. ðŸ'¹

Cameron,

I called the numbers on your website and got a recorded woman's voice indicating that you were not opened.

Gatewest Stamp & Coin Ltd.
1711 Corydon Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
R3N 0J9 CANADA
204-489-9112

For Payments by credit card:
Pay online!, or:
Within Canada: 1-800-565-2646

As for the butterfly; why not take on line orders? Get a decent system that tracks inventory...see colonial acres or canadian coins & currency if you need an example. Based on my experiences in more than a few industries, building software in-house is a fool's game and now you have what you have, which is subpar at best.

I too have spent a few thousand dollars with GW and have never heard of your discount program....am I to understand that whenever I do business with a on-line retailer, I should call them and ask if they have a discount program!? Seems to me that it would be in your best interest to inform your good customers that you offer a discount? As it is, I spend considerably more at CA because they do offer me a VIP discount. Your loss. But you're big enough that losing one customer doesn't matter, right? Wonder how many retailer have gone out of business with that kind of thinking!?

I will say, that I applaud your efforts to enforce limits. I suspect it has more to do with building a customer base than it does with nobility but either are valid pursuits. And I will also say that all of my dealings with GW have been good. My only complaint has been repeated here. Why charge before you ship? Virtually no retailers do this and it requires the customer to surrender some rights via your terms of sale. As you probably know, credit card companies discourage that practice and it creates a very difficult situation when the mint delays the release of new coins.

My only other complaint is your packing material. The pizza boxes are ok - sturdy etc - but the newsprint is terrible. It smells and the ink transfers to the coin packaging. It's really a distasteful experience opening a GW package.

In any case, I hope you continue to contribute to this forum and that you have thick skin.





Yes, the RCM does these surveys every year or two. The last one I took was in June and was concerned with themes for 2014 coins. Lots of 'anniversary' stuff again.

How do you make the distinction between Hot-Normal-Garbage. A lot of coins have been over hyped that should not have been classified as Hot. Then what happens when there are more Hot coins than Normal ones.

Actually I think most people would like two coins; one for themselves and one for flipping, sorry I mean for their mothers for mothers day.

Fine Silver Coin - Purple Coneflower with Venetian Glass Butterfly - Mintage: 100,000 (2013)

I've been suckered into buying some of these so called Hot coins in the past. I really don't see much difference in the temperature once I receive them.
Maybe its because by the time I received them they had cooled down.

Privy mark Silver Maple Leaf coins, some of which Gatewest had made for them.

Anyone can get a custom Privy Mark Maple Leaf, providing you order a minimum amount... I am surprised the hyenas here have not tried that trick yet - order a special privy mark maple leaf, destroy/melt all but 1000 of them and then try to sell them at outrageous prices.... maybe coughing up that much money up front is what separates the puppies from the big dogs... I am sure will we see it, in time - greed and human nature dictates it...