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Good job by USMint on March of Dimes set ...
Despite a slow connection from home, I was able to quickly order the
special March of Dimes limited edition sets promptly at 9AM Pacific this morning. Previous attempts to order limited edition items have often required tens of minutes for the Mint website to painstakingly crunch through the webpages, but this time the time between clicking the "order" button and rendering the "checkout" page was only a few seconds. They seem to have removed the "quick checkout" option, so I had to reenter my credit card info again, but even that wuz quick. I wasted a few more seconds because I forgot to click the "Accept Terms" checkbox before clicking the "checkout", but I still got the "confirm" screen a minute or so after that. The "confirmation" email from the Mint hit my inbox at 9:09 AM, which I'm pretty sure is a record for this type of set. Either A) nobody gives a rat's hindquarters about Roosevelt dimes or B) the Mint actually has done a good job of modernizing its website for burst activity. Probably a combination of the two -- we'll know better when the sets sell out -- they are still available (though on "Back Order" now) at 9:40 AM, so it looks like the site wasn't overwhelmed selling the 75,000 sets available ... -- Ken Barr Numismatics * * * *email: P. O. Box 32541 * * * * * * website: *http://www.kenbarr.com San Jose, CA *95152 * * Coins, currency, exonumia, souvenir cards, etc. 408-272-3247 * NEXT SHOW: Santa Clara 04/17-19 |
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Good job by USMint on March of Dimes set ...
One can only hope Ken. I placed my order an hour after it became available and got the 'back ordered' response. Last year I ordered the Baseball Hall of Fame $5 proof gold commemorative, got the same response. After a few months and at least 3 messages from the mint of the delayed delivery time I got a message that I was shut out, a day after getting a new delivery date. SHM.
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Good job by USMint on March of Dimes set ...
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Jud wrote: One can only hope Ken. I placed my order an hour after it became available and got the 'back ordered' response. Last year I ordered the Baseball Hall of Fame $5 proof gold commemorative, got the same response. After a few months and at least 3 messages from the mint of the delayed delivery time I got a message that I was shut out, a day after getting a new delivery date. SHM. I just checked the order status on the Mint website and it says "shipped" with a tracking number. The USPS website says that "pre-shipment information has been uploaded to USPS", but it doesn't show a "received for shipment" scan yet. I'm still pretty enthused by USMint 2.0 -- it looks like I may have the sets in time for a local coin club meeting on Friday, less than five days after placing the order! Whoop de doo! FWIW, the "back order" status reportedly started showing up after about 20 minutes into the ordering period. No one seems to know when the 75,000 limit was reached, as the order processor seems to have discontinued the use of the "out of stock" status. [The Mint website still shows the sets as "back ordered" even though I'm fairly confident that orders placed today will never be filled ...] -- Ken Barr Numismatics * * * *email: P. O. Box 32541 * * * * * * website: *http://www.kenbarr.com San Jose, CA *95152 * * Coins, currency, exonumia, souvenir cards, etc. 408-272-3247 * NEXT SHOW: Santa Clara 04/17-19 |
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Good job by USMint on March of Dimes set ...
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Ken Barr wrote: In article , Jud wrote: [snip] I'm still pretty enthused by USMint 2.0 -- it looks like I may have the sets in time for a local coin club meeting on Friday, less than five days after placing the order! Whoop de doo! FWIW, the "back order" status reportedly started showing up after about 20 minutes into the ordering period. No one seems to know when the 75,000 limit was reached, as the order processor seems to have discontinued the use of the "out of stock" status. [The Mint website still shows the sets as "back ordered" even though I'm fairly confident that orders placed today will never be filled ...] Woo Hoo! USPS tracking showed the package delivered to my local P. O. just before midnight last night, so it was ready for pickup this morning. I stopped in to drop off some packages just before noon, and picked up the five March of Dimes sets ... Less than seventy-two hours between order and package-in-hand ... quite a change from past USMint performance! (But I still haven't received the "confirmation email" promised within 24 hours of Monday's order, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over that omission!) Completed sales on eBay show most sets selling for plus/minus $90 each in groups of five, and over $100 each as single sets. Thank you, U S Mint -- if I can flip three sets before the credit card bill arrives, I'll be making money on your dime (as well as your dimes!). Oh, yeah, the sets look pretty nice, too! -- Ken Barr Numismatics * * * *email: P. O. Box 32541 * * * * * * website: *http://www.kenbarr.com San Jose, CA *95152 * * Coins, currency, exonumia, souvenir cards, etc. 408-272-3247 * NEXT SHOW: Santa Clara 04/17-19 |
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