How Many Set Of 2013 ASE Westpoint Mint Have You Bought?

Maybe they did put in one of the first orders or they got an early ordering period so that remained technically true. Why they dont admit it I dont know. We all know you get special treatment being a large buyer and I completely expect them too. It really doesn't bother me at all, its makes perfect business sense to worry more about the 30k+ order more than the 150 dollar one.

Theyre just protecting their own interests and in some ways ours as well. They need those orders to assure that they make enough money to not only offset the costs of the series but to make money as well. If they shipped those sets last those sellers orders would get smaller over time as their market for them shrunk waiting for their orders. If it got to the point that they mint was no longer profiting off collectable items they would stop making them and wed just have circulating coinage.

Just like the mint the TPGs give those orders special preference as well in terms of how fast they get to them. Basically instead of having to wait in the line like everyone else those orders likely just jump to the front and the other modern orders are put on hold for a day or two. If you track the turn around times for getting things graded you can see times where theyre much slower than before because of the large numbers of large order coming in for new products.

We will likely see the enhanced one again, whether its next year or later down the line only the mint knows the answer to that. I like the variety personally with the RPs and the new enhanced and think the RP is the best looking of the ASEs. I'm fine if they want to do one every year, but if theyre going to do it every year Id rather see it as an individual coin rather than a set at some point. Unless they keep coming up with new ideas to keep both the set coins unique to the set just let me buy the RP without the stiff packaging premiums

I won't see the 2 sets I ordered from the mint until Sept. sometime, so I was glad to be able to get my first graded set from SilverTowne this early. I couldn't stop looking at the enhanced ASE last night.

I find all this back and forth about 1st in 1st out very interesting.

Last year for the 2012 set I ordered 12 sets on opening day at 12:20 I then ordered 1 set in my sisters name 13 minutes later. Come shipping day my sisters got shipped mine did not.

I called the mint to ask why 1st in 1st out didn't work and was told because "mine was a large order and required special handling"

I got mine 2 days behind my sisters even though hers took the slow route and mine was expressed

wif99 - that is kind of frustrating I can imagine. The logic that the bulk large orders of thousands is delaying the shipment to the smaller orders, is kind of defeated when you read the small orders get shipped first because of the special handling for larger orders...

I also not "beholding" to the idea 3rd party resellers are what keeps the mint in business. In fact, if they are all that are buying from the mint why bother with selling to the public and not just take it private and let them front the business... That would drive many of us out once and for all.

bryt - they must have just done that, mine is also updated to reflect 7/11 now. I've gone from 7/25 to 7/11 to 6/24 to 6/17 and now to 7/11 again... might have stopepd at 7/2 briefly along the journey. Oh well, I am sure they'll ship someday - it isn't like I missed ordering them this time around.

Got my OGP from the mint yesterday.
Not the greatest pics sorry

Chuck,

The answer to your question is "No."