I finally go through on the phoneline. According to the Mint rep the Baseball Gold coins did not actually sell out until early morning, 28 Mar 2014. So if your order was in before that you should get your coins.
Did not get a specific time, but if you placed an order sometime after early morning 28 Mar 2014 then your gold coin(s) order is on a waitlist & you will only receive them if someone else either cancels or ordered too many.
I wonder is the system happened to dump a bunch of orders. With how many orders were placed yesterday only a small percentage needed a gold to sell out considered a decent number of dealers likely ordered the 50 coin max.
I agree with Doug too the site was a mess after the wait room. The add to cart button didn't work for me most of the time and it took me 3 tries to get the checkout quantities right and the orders to go through.
I did see my second order showed up this morning though
I was going to wait until the 5oz Smokey Mountains came out to save on shipping but after yesterdays sellout hype I tried to login but forgot my password and the request new password wasn't sending.
I had to order as a "guest"
Hopefully my late last night order made it in before the "waiting list"
I'm surprised there aren't more comments on these coins. They seem to be winners to me. I can't wait to actually hold these coins in hand. It might be awhile :-)
I think both the silver and gold proofs are very very nice. The seams on the gold proof really are an added visual, and it is too bad they didn't do that with the silver coin as well.
I just checked to see if the shipping dates are stable and it appears my silver coins will be here in early April and my gold coins are holding steady with a June ship date.
I actually have no problem with a dealer getting several hundred coins.. so the 100 isn't a big deal. The problems I saw in the past stemmed primarily from dealers unloading truckloads of coins - and your novice coin collector sitting with nothing other than a shipment date that moved at a glacial pace or was moved out to even later dates. I liked the implementation of household limits, even if the average household is never going to buy 50 or 100 coins - it slowed the dealers down enough that we had a fighting chance to purchase these coins as well. I'm sure we will see dealers selling thousands - but - they will have had to battle with the rest of us to have gotten them.
I know there will be endless discussion about this, and one person's solution is another person's problem, but I feel a fairer method of distribution would be to allow only one coin per type per address for the first week, then increase the limit (if not sold out). Another problem I have is the timing of the initial release. I'm a schoolteacher and was fortunate in that the release date fell during my spring break. There are, however, lots of collectors WHO ACTUALLY HAVE TO WORK FOR A LIVING and can't be on the phone for two hours during working hours to place a coin order. Since most of it is done online, couldn't the release date be on a weekend? I guess if you wanted to be supremely fair it would be done on a lottery basis or without a production limit. Course with most commemorative releases this is not a problem because they don't sell out and predicting which ones will and which ones won't is difficult at best. Another area of speculation is whether this coin saw popularity due to the subject matter, or the unique "domed" nature of the coin. I'm betting on the latter.
howell... the problem with 1 coin a week per household is... there are actually businesses that survive reselling coins - and they wouldn't given your scenario. The mint also needs to have a little control over manufacture and that scenario would seem to run on for a long time with no real idea what it would need to produce. Also a weekend sale - would also drive up costs - for weekend staffing. As a collector - I prefer a finite resource. Whats the point of collecting if every coin made is sold to everyone that wanted it until everyone had it - not much interest in that scenario either.
The quantity is set by the law creating the coins - and generally speaking 50,000 gold coins was maybe a tad low - but probably about right. I think 400,000 silver will end up being ballpark close to the right number...and 750,000 clad is 650,000 more than anyone really needs.
Given the topic - which is a large draw in the US - and the domed shape... I think you had a mix of both in play.
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