5 Ounce America The Beautiful National Park Silver Quarters

So we are still just waiting for info about how to have them shipped right? All I have received is that one "confirmation" that they have my silver. It doesn't appear to say anything on it about shipping (as far as I know, we wait until that other company sends a letter about shipping?)

sounds hte the morale of this story should be: this was too much of a pain to deal with again.

Gettysburg and Glacier arrived today. Look good. Will examine closer tonight. Brief first look...MS69 PL/DMPL.

I just got my first five from fidelitrade and other then one they look flawless I am very happy. Now the question is how do I store them in their air-tites?

I still haven't heard from the people that hold the coins...although it has been like 2 or 3 weeks since I got a call and mail from prudential saying that got my money...which was a month ot so after I sent it to them...

After reading about the PB orders etc I am starting to wonder if these folks even have computers and I hope folks get what they ordered.

Has anyone here got their coins back yet?

FWIW -- Back in the 90's I used to work in a position where we had to move securities. Part of it was manual and part was automated and even back then we could have it moved in 2 weeks start to finish from A to B. The 2 weeks included checks clearing, changing titles / ownership, mailing etc.

I think it depends on whether they approached this little exercise in red tape as a way to gain new customers, or just as an aggravation that they're more or less obligated to do to maintain a reputation as a "complete" bullion dealer.

It should be obvious that some of the AP saw the writing on the wall, and didn't bother with them at all, and at least one who did the 2010s has dropped out since.

There's no way you can go through all the paperwork for a new account for a 25 ounce silver bullion sale, especially if the type of customer it attracts is unlikely to buy other stuff from you. Add the aggravation of having to cross-check every order over a period of weeks against every other order to prevent duplication, and you have a selling nightmare, compounded by the orders you have to return because you will almost certainly sell out.

It was like when the "death of Superman" comic came out. There wasn't a dealer in the country who ordered enough, plus it got fantastic general press coverage.

No matter what you did, you were wrong. If you didn't order enough (normal sales were 3-5 copies, our initial order was 20, when the dust settled, we sold over 500), you "should have known better". If you limited them to pre-orders or regular customers, you were "unfair" (even though 99% of the new people who wanted this issue would never buy anything else.)

If you priced them for $20-100, as some dealers did, you were a ripoff. If you sold them at cover price, you should have limited them one to a customer.

We decided the fairest way was once orders were filled for those who let us know in advance, anyone wanting a copy could get it at cover price, but had to buy $20 worth of other comics, new or used. Actual collectors had no problem with this, but of course the 50 people lined up outside on release date who only wanted to pay $2.50 for a comic they could later sell to put their kid through college were mad that we would take care of them as "good customers" (who we never saw before or since).

Received my Gettysburg and Glacier pucks today from APMEX. Look great to me!