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Valued Member
United States
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They knew traffic would be there yet here is the message: The United States Mint is performing system maintenance. During this time period you will not be able to use the website. To place an order please call 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). Sorry for the inconvenience.Now this is at 1:00 1 hour after Gold Buffalo was to be available. Yeah, right, try to call it. They need new IT People.... Typical government bumbling..... MM  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I agree.
Time and time again down through the years, I have had to give up on internet ordering and pick up the telephone.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I gave up on thw website. I just purchased one. Press option 0 on the phone to talk to an operator....sometimes it is busy, sometimes it says they are unable to take your call.....I finaly got through after a hour of straight redial
She said they are going fast......
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1626 Posts |
Sorry....The 24K Buffalo...
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Valued Member
 United States
397 Posts |
1:20 I got all the way to Place order, and the website crashed.... Ridiculous |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I did get my order in before they started mainanence but I had to keep hitting refresh to get it to load, jdheyne was having the same problems and posted a thread on it also
Edited by Bryan1315
06/22/2006 2:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do not think they are performing system maintenance. More than likely their servers cannot handle the traffic.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
they are back up now and they are saying the coin is on backorder now and will not be available until 7/13/06 so they sold out fast, well not exactly a sell out but they depleted their stock fast
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06/22/2006 2:16 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Would gold be devalued if these coins were produced in the masses like cents? There seems to be a big demand and not enough of these to go around. Maybe the mint should produce enough coins to meet demand so all collectors can have one.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I dont think they are sold out yet. I see the following message:
In order to ensure the broadest and most fair access to United States Mint products, a limit of 10 units per order and per household is in effect. Accordingly, all orders for American Buffalo Gold Proof One Ounce Coins will go immediately into a backorder status to ensure compliance with this policy. This quality assurance process should not impact the estimated delivery time. The United States Mint may reevaluate this limit and either adjust or remove it at any time.
Seeing you can still add one to your shopping cart, it looks like they did not sell the 300,000 limit yet
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06/22/2006 2:22 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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What makes me mad is that I pay taxes for this kind of sorry service. Typical of our government services today..... Just that simple. MM Edited by morganman
06/22/2006 2:22 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with you morganman....All the taxes we pay, they should have super sonic servers to handle this traffic
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New Member
United States
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Well I am a reborn coin collector. As a kid I loved it but most of what I thought was great, was not lol.
However, I have grabbed a couple things from the US Mint that I think have value. My over the top, have I gone crazy target, was this Buffalo gold coin.
I wasn't going to go for it but then they lowered the price and for $165 difference after shipping, I would rather have the proof.
But what a pain...2.5 hours trying to get through on phone and web. I finally got an order in via the web but it says backordered. I read the previous post of them doing this to cut down on some over agressive buyers, but it has me worried.
I look in my account and it says backordered, expected to ship 7/13/2006. Order status: suspended.
Anyone who got their order in earlier, have the same message? I would be so ticked if I missed out on this coin. I have been watching and waiting since they announced it's release.
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06/22/2006 2:50 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If they would produce enough of these they wouldn't have to worry about aggressive buyers and hoarders and they'd make a stuffload of money at the same time!
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New Member
United States
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I just was able to place my order after spending the first hour trying to get through by both computer and phone. It reminded me of trying to buy concert tickets. At least I was able to get through finally. I figured it would be sold out by the time I got through.
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Posted 06/22/2006 1:20 pm
