Any News On 25th Anniversary ASE Set?

Oh -- false alarm. A little Google search turned up this tidbit:

I have seen the on hold thing happen every time I order one of the 5oz ATB's, especially with the first few releases. It's just the way they do things. It will take them 3 or 4 days to sort through today's mess then the status will change. Guess you can call today Black Thursday, it's just a crazy as the day after Thanksgiving. I spent 3 hours today and had good progress. I feel bad for those of you that were not as fortunate. Once I actually get a shipping confirmation will I believe it's going to be real..

Took me about 3 hours to get my 5 sets ordered. Tried the phone for 1/2 hour and gave up. I thought all was lost, but my order finally went through.

It's not just the "poor management" planning of the mint, it is the hopelessly antiquated system of routers and servers the mint has. Even they have admitted that this part of the order process needs to be updated. I think it was next to impossible to compete with the mass marketers, all of whom have instant redial phone banks and huge connected 4G networks with the latest hardware, and huge amounts of bandwidth. The casual collector with a single land based DSL line is going to be simply blown out of the water. Wonder if they might revise the order limits during the process? Only if there is a huge customer backlash or possibly an enormous back order list. For a lot of people, today could really be described as "Internet hell!"

Wow... sets are going for as high as $560 on ebay. Talk about a fast profit!

My plan was to be online right before 9am, but got delayed and didn't start trying until 9:20am. Could not get the site to come up, and finally found the phone number. I called for about 3 hours and never got through to anyone. Always a busy signal once I hit 1 after the call answered. I loaded Google Chrome based on someones suggestion and that worked much better. It took about 3 minutes between screens, but I eventually got my 5 sets. I spent more time than normal because my billing and shipping addresses are different and I had to make sure they were correct before submitting the order. I got an email confirmation and they show backordered, so I think I am good.

Sorry to hear so many people could not get through. I don't know how much additional bandwidth or whatever the Mint would have to add for these situations. But, since they sold our in 4 to 5 hours, I don't see them doing anything to change at this time. It's not like they have a lot of money laying around. Any money they get probably goes somewhere else to be spent.

I just logged in through Google Chrome (IE does not work) and I wnet to see if I could order a set and it says backordered on the page. If anyone still want's some, you might give it a try with Google Chrome. It does not say wait list on that one page, but I'm not going any further since I got 5 already. Just a FYI.