Any News On 25th Anniversary ASE Set?

Once again, for those of you who are concerned about the changing ship date on your Track Order page, relax. This is SOP at the mint. That date was set at two weeks (totally arbitrary, nothing do do with any real expectation, it is just a number they use) and it will increment daily (not always every day and not at any particular time of day). It has absolutely zero meaning. In essence it is a place holder. When it changes to "in stock and reserved" and the status changes from HOLD to in process, this is the point when your order is actually confirmed and will soon be shipping (it may still be several days or even a week before it actually ships). The charge on your CC will usually appear during this phase but again the CC charge may precede shipment by several days. Even once it changes to "your order was shipped on ..." and a UPS tracking number is available, clicking on it may result in UPS stating that the number is not valid or the shipment cannot be found. Once again, relax, this is also SOP at the mint. They might put your shipment into this state on Friday night, after the last UPS pick up, and your coins might not actually reach UPS until Monday. Once UPS actually has your package and tracking information is available, your coins will arrive the next business day. This year so far for me, I have a disproportionate number of orders actually ship on Friday, so overnight means Monday. Considering the volume of orders taken Thursday, it may take PBGS well over one week from the day the first coins ship to they ship the last ones. It is also possible that they put the hold on your CC so early that is expires before they get around to shipping. They have dome this before, most notably with the UHRDE. Often when this happens, and with overnight shipment, your CC might not be charged for real until after you have coins in hand. Please resist the temptation to cancel your credit card if this happens. I am kidding but this actually did happen to one guy on the UHRDE, he became so frustrated that the charge came and went after all of the other things that had happened that he cancelled his card because the mint would not cancel his order at that point and the coin shipped anyway. He was not trying to get the coin for free and he refused the package so it returned to PBGS. Bottom line, don't panic unless your order gets cancelled and then raise heck if that happens. There have been erroneous cancellations in the past. I recommend taking a screenshot of your Track Order pages so that if something does go wrong, you have a way to prove the details of your order in time to get it reinstated. It is very unlikely that this would happen but on a sold out item, better safe than sorry. Much of this silliness and its effect on customer satisfaction could be avoided if PBGS would follow the mint FAQs and industry standards and only charge the CC (and make that an actual charge and not a hold) the day they actually ship.

looks like mine may be shipping on the 13th

I got the following e-mail from the mint this morning:



My heart leapt into my throat when I read the "We regret to inform you..." bit, but after reading the entire message it looks like everything is all right.

I've just received similar message from U.S. Mint, no need to worry, S.O.P. I've quite not seen anything like this in a very long time, regarding the sale of the American Silver Eagle 25th Anniversary five coin set.

i also got this email. It had me puzzeled also

Well, yeah -- I know that now. My point was that the second line of text is not what I wanted to be seeing first thing Monday morning...