Your Real Opinion On What The RCM Produces

It hurts anything, as a whole, when "special" becomes the norm.

Variety is the spice of life is true. However, when you have 2,000 different flavors of ice cream to choose from, the time it takes to look through them all and make a decision can cause a person to say, "just forget it!"

Future collectors will have a wide variety to look back on so they can decide what they would like to collect. However, overwhelming is, well, overwhelming and cheapens the experience.

Making trinkets would seem to be a way of increasing the customer base to include people not interested specifically in coin. I wonder if the trinkets initially selling well are from coin collectors ordering the pieces or the general public is paying more attention to the RCM's products?

When I started collecting NCLT I bought the Canadian coins volume two Collector an Maple Leaf Issues book and went through it.
At the time I remember looking at the all the amazing looking coins hopping I could buy them for myself.
But I remember right from the beginning I knew I was going to stay away from the 50 cent coins as well as everything over a $4 face value, just way to expensive and way to many.
For the most part I have kept to this and I've managed to get more or less everything that was in that first book.
Since then I have continued to buy anything with a dollar face value and for some reason anything with a dinosaur on it.
But as a new collector now looking at all the NCLT that I would have to buy to complete a collection I believe I would just walk away as it would seem way to overwhelming and impossible.
Im Not even sure off the top of my head how many Dollar/Loon coins I have but I know I have one of everyone made and two of almost everyone made that have a different Queen on it because I didnt want to have to flip them over to see the different fronts

Counting them seems like a project for the next rainy weekend

All Mints appear to be on this bandwagon. Churn it out ASAP, never mind the theme or if it makes any sense.

WOW! I'm surprised by this poll's results!

As of tonight, 50% of responses indicate that the RCM has hit bottom. I must admit, I'm in this category... but I am shocked that 50% of voters are in the same boat.

This is not good. If we assume that this poll represents "avid" collectors (most people on this forum are die-hards / enjoy the hobby enough to talk about it), a number like this has to worry the RCM: 50% of the customers that spend the most, are the longest-term customers, and speak the loudest aren't happy.

If I had half of my customers heading to forums and speaking negatively about my organization's performance, I would clean house and/or RAPIDLY sell my business!

They lost me when they went Hollywood. May as well be the Tuvalu mint for all that most of the RCM NCLT coins have to say about Canada or her history. That said, some of my fave RCM coins have been recent ones - the 2015 100th anniversary of In Flanders Fields enameled being my favourite RCM issue ever. So I guess I complain about the RCM the same way the two old ladies complain about the food in the diner - "this food is greasy and undercooked and practically inedible!" "Yes, and such small portions, too."

And milkspots. Don't forget that they're second to none when it comes to milkspots.

1. Too expensive
2. Mintage too high (get those numbers low and people will get excited again)
3. Get a new creative director (bland, unimaginative, repetitive right now)

I will then concede that they are second to none.