March 2016 Releases

Presales have been around since at least 2012, when I started collecting. A seller has 30 days in which to ship the item. I would worry the buyer cancels, once they find it for cheaper.

Pre sales of nclt RCM coins took off with the 2013 glass butterfly sold by Karly Shannon. It opened the gates of controversy, as it was at least 2 weeks prior to official launch.

Just Wow, the Feb release was 3 days ago and now we have 2 pages on the March releases. No wonder new nclt coins drop so fast in prices, collectors have the attention span of a toddler. Drop todays coin, in pursuit of the next new toy.

Going to quarterly releases might fix this. I'm still thinking about the January coins! My son snagged my glow wolf, its on his desk now. This forced release pace is not health for the long term. I was thinking of a couple privy coins a couple weeks back, now new ones are released, I lost interest. Its impossible to keep up with this pace. Cheaper to enjoy others pics instead!

I call it ADOS - Attention Deficit, Oh! Shiny!

If a 10,000 mintage tanks the series, how can 12500 mintage help it any? Just pure greed on RCM behalf, but if we are stupid enough to keep buying.

There's always two way of looking st things. On the topic of greed, perhaps the Pysanka has something to do with increased mintages?

Look at it this way......your family is of Ukrainian ancestory and you've become aware of a RCM coin that's going to be minted to celebrate the 125th Anniverday of settlement of your descendants. You anxiously await the release of this coin on RCMs website....."awaiting order, awaiting order", then poof it's sold out! You know the selling price was $114.95 and there was to be 4,000 minted. So you check on ebay and what do you see but it's being listed for in and around $300! Wouldn't that make you wonder why the price of a coin especially minted by a Cdn Goverment Crown Corporation in honour of celebration of your Ancestry was being jacked up by private individuals, considering you were given absolutely NO opportunity to buy even one?

So while it might be considered greed by RCM to increase mintages, at least that enables all consumers to buy at issue price. It also shields RCM from public innuendo regarding who's pocket they are padding and having recently gone through a federal election, we surely know how the public frowns upon that.

For those new to this collecting frenzy, the monthly issues are relatively new. I think only 3 or 4 years now. Prior to that, it was quarterly, with the odd special occasion coin every so often. I preferred Quarterly.

Yes and consider the great public backlash to a similar situation, that of scalpers of Ticketmaster tickets. Ticketmaster is a US company but RCM is owned by our very own Canadain Government.

I am simply asking others to observe from the other side....that of the ordinary person who, if they want it bad enough, is forced to pay inflated prices immediately after NCLT is issued by RCM.

I rather have lower mintages like the 4000 and have a miss opportunity ever so often than having 10,000 and almost all issues be over produced, this egg has caused the buzz needed to liven up the hobby, but I still say wait six months this coin will most likely drift back to issue, it's a limited theme like xmas coins etc. There is almost no chance the glass snail will sell out and do well in the aftermarket, pay issue 149.00 and later get it for 100, that is what's happening the last few years with RCM NCLT. I have no problem with collectors who takes a chance and bought 10 or 100 of the eggs, and are rewarded for their risk.