New Superman Series

I must be one of the unlucky ones because I did NOT get a gold Superman coin through my rep even though I ordered promptly as soon as I got the email. I got placed on a waiting list instead. Its weird because other people got their orders confirmed by their reps. I must have a bad rep.
This whole fiasco is sure taking the shine off coin collecting for me.

I suppose every Rep has a limited quantity to sell.

And currently the $10 silver coin is also awaiting stock, anyone know if the mint made the entire mintage available or will it be in parts?

@Anjohl
Actually, there is more than 2,000 MC members, so it's impossible to even get one gold for every MC.
Having a low mintage coin is nice for collecting, but it also have the cons of being harder to get.

Besides a very few that I've heard, the hard limit of 1 per household was strictly enforced so there is no other way they can satisfy the most people.
I'm sorry for those whose rep wasn't able to get one, but this is part of the collecting game.

My message would be a lot different if many MC member were able to get 5-10 gold ones, but this isn't the case here, strict limit of 1 per.

With the disaster release of the BOC gold coins, there is probably 5 to 6 thousand MC members, and within the MC ranks there seems to be several levels of MC status.

The 2013 superman gold coin sold much slower in the beginning because it was available to Canada only. Many collectors think that there won't be enough demand in Canada for this coin, plus being 14K (which means tax required) made it less attractive so people just wait and see. Some people speculated that this "Canada Only" arrangement was part of the deal between the Mint and DC Comics.

But a few days after it's release to public, the Mint made it available to both US and Canada and the coin got sold out quickly from the Mint. And people started hunting it from dealers like GateWest or from ebay, and that's when the coin become "hot".

The 2nd superman gold coin was made available to both US and Canada right from the beginning, plus the "success" from the 1st coin, made it sold out so much faster.

I think they blew that one out of the water this time.

Members with reps got e-mails in the middle of the night. Within 8 hours, the coins were available on-line for all MC. Non-MC could call in and order. So not only did the MC w/ rep not get the usual day or so advance notice, regular MC got virtually no advance ordering period.

The only difference I see is that MC w/ reps got an e-mail earlier whereas others didn't.

But, and this is huge. MC w/ reps only had access to the allocation of their particular rep. So if the rep sold his allocation, you were put on a waiting list. Meanwhile, others were ordering on-line and/or calling in orders and getting confirmations. That tells me that having a rep was actually a disadvantage this time around. What a joke.

If this was a coin that I wanted and my rep put me on a waiting list while the coin was available on line, I would be extremely upset. I've never seen much of an advantage of ordering though him anyway (just as easy to do it on-line) but at least in the past it hasn't been a hindrance. A new bungling first for the RCM!

If I were a mint rep, I'd expect to see my job eliminated very soon since they are now redundant.

CC, I think you have stated very well what has happened with this latest Superguy release. It's clear taht there are many frustrated MC members today.

Also, your analysis of the hazards of depending on one's rep to get you that key coin is quite astute.

However, I really hope the reps don't lose their jobs.