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I wonder if 100,000 will be the mintage limit.....

@NJCoin said:

@all_that_glitters said:
Just got off the phone with the Mint. They are being incredibly shady and tightlipped with information on this. Everything discussed led me to believe the remaining 4500 will be available soon. I'm very disappointed with the US Mint today.

Just why did ANYTHING discussed lead you to believe the remaining 4500 would be available soon? I've been railing about them being opaque and shady all along, and most people replying have simply had no issue with it, as long as they don't make more than the maximum.

Just what did you read, see or hear in that discussion that led you to believe they would make 5800 available on the web at release, have them sell out and go Unavailable in a few hours, have whatever you thought would "be available soon" not made available right then and there, on a Back Order basis or otherwise, have them not show up the next day, have the HHL lifted the next day, and have them not show up in the few days thereafter, but actually show up at some random point in the future?

That potential point came and went Thursday afternoon. Sorry you didn't get the memo, or failed to understand the discussion. Those who did jumped on these when they briefly popped up Friday and Saturday morning.

They are now very happy that people like you believed the maximum number the Mint published, and took it on faith that they would make that number if they could sell that number, and would not intentionally mislead you for no apparent reason. Because the fact that you, and thousands others like you, are now shut out makes their purchases more valuable. Which is all most people care about.

Pro tip -- in the future, don't waste your time on "the phone with the Mint." You are not speaking with a production manager on the factory floor, or a senior official in Washington, DC.

You are talking to a low wage call center employee, who is neither shady nor tight lipped. They tell you what they know -- nothing. They are there only to take orders or to deal with issues related to already placed orders. Not to give you insights on production levels.

You use a lot of words to say absolutely nothing.

@txhousa said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@all_that_glitters said:
Just got off the phone with the Mint. They are being incredibly shady and tightlipped with information on this. Everything discussed led me to believe the remaining 4500 will be available soon. I'm very disappointed with the US Mint today.

If you called CS, they don't have any inside information.

Agreed. They just read the script.

And if they go off script, you'll really get bad information. Lol

Ancient history now, but when I was on staff at the ANA (1978-1984) I was told by a fellow employee that the ANA would never go back to Philadelphia because when it was there in 1976 the Convention Coordinator, Ruth Ann Brettell, thought that the drive into downtown from the airport was too ugly.

Coin collecting is a hobby. I golfed twenty years ago. Those rounds are completely worthless today. Should have put that money into the stock market I guess

@Cranium_Basher73 I’m in for both also, but check your dates 10/10 is Friday and 11/10 is Monday. Wouldn’t want to see you miss them