Noticed Awaiting Stock Coins; Back In Stock Often

Or maybe a lot of dealer cancel orders.

elk is right about not making the whole mintage. Even for the specimen sets they just make them as they need them until the max mintage is filled. So what is awaiting stock now could be available in 6 months from now. I noticed this with the 2013 specimen sets. They were awaiting stock at the begging for a while and then at the end of the year they had a whole bunch....must of made more.

For some reason, whenever a coin is "awaiting stock" the mint reps on the phone tell you that the item is sold out, then later on suddenly it comes back, from my experience the examples have been the Empress coin, the eagle subscriptions, the coloured nanaboozhoo coin, and the 2014 50cent roll, while on the other hand things like the glass frog went awaiting stock and never came back into stock. So why not just say "SOLD OUT" for those. Also I noticed that such as the first royal visit coin, I got an email saying 75% sold out, and then on their website it says now 77% I think. That coin was never awaiting stock, while on the other hand the Empress one, before it was released to public, the night before I called in to place my order as it was awaiting stock online, they said they have a few remaining and will be sold out by tmrw, yet its still back in stock 10 days later. For some reason it makes me think that if a coin goes awaiting stock is that to try to get it while I can somehow, and I think the mint is doing something to increase sales by making people think that item will be sold out, which means theres higher demand.