My 1/10th and 1/4 were shipped by first class rather than UPS. Did this happen to others? In the past 1st class would be about the same but thanks to De Joy, who knows.
I got free shipping, maybe that is why. I just remember the policy for years was any order over $300 gets bumped up to UPS but apparently only if you are paying the $5. It's not like I had the option to do that. It's either free or you pay $20 or whatever for the upgrade, which was not clear to me and did not apply with a silver order about half the size recently.
Ok, so I assume the mint will boost all gold and platinum coins to expedited shipping, well that's what it says. Two things I don't understand, if I get free budget shipping, but checked the expedited charge, do I have to pay? Another thing I don't get, why don't they send, let's say both my 1/2 and 1/10th in the same shipment? I assume this would cut down on loss in every area, I get this is a government ran business, but I would guess this is not that hard to accomplish.
@Peyroguy said:
Another thing I don't get, why don't they send, let's say both my 1/2 and 1/10th in the same shipment? I assume this would cut down on loss in every area, I get this is a government ran business, but I would guess this is not that hard to accomplish.
Are both coins on the same order? I actually prefer that they ship separately because some I might want graded (with first strike) and others not. To ensure I have that flexibility, I place on separate orders.
@Peyroguy said:
Ok, so I assume the mint will boost all gold and platinum coins to expedited shipping, well that's what it says. Two things I don't understand, if I get free budget shipping, but checked the expedited charge, do I have to pay? Another thing I don't get, why don't they send, let's say both my 1/2 and 1/10th in the same shipment? I assume this would cut down on loss in every area, I get this is a government ran business, but I would guess this is not that hard to accomplish.
You get free budget shipping, not free expedited shipping. Of course you have to pay.
They do ship things together if you order them together. If you ordered them separately, they don't group them.
Honestly, you DON'T necessarily want them shipping them together. One delayed item will delay everything.
you'd need to suggest that the buyer can select "group orders in 1 shipment" as having single items in single boxes is how you get them in for grading by different people.
Was able to put 1/2 ounce in my cart at 7:35 am. I see household limit restrictions have been lifted. So, I think I will not be able to get this coin again.
@JimTyler said:
Didn’t notice limits lifted would have changed my game plan
that red button flashes and i have a single track mind. Clickity-Click in a very specific order. minimizing keystrokes and mouse movements. It's fluid magic. Adjusting item count wasn't on the radar today.
I actually had 20 1/10 ounce in my cart but couldn't check out fast enough. I got to play that game where I keep dropping the amount, but the number available drops faster than I drop my order. LOL
I'm still not sure I want them. lmfao. It's possible the price drops faster than the Mint ships...
On a related note, I thought my 4 coin set shipped yesterday. But then when I actually opened the email later, it was actually the 2021-W silver eagles that I ordered on February 20th.
19 and 20 4 piece gold sets are available but not the 21. Seems this is the latest craze regarding gold and silver Eagles, sold out in an instant. No household limits, could be a handful of dealers with 75% of the total mintage.
@morgansforever said:
19 and 20 4 piece gold sets are available but not the 21. Seems this is the latest craze regarding gold and silver Eagles, sold out in an instant. No household limits, could be a handful of dealers with 75% of the total mintage.
2019 & 2020 are still around because no mintage limit. They’ll make em until they’re sick of making them
@morgansforever said:
19 and 20 4 piece gold sets are available but not the 21. Seems this is the latest craze regarding gold and silver Eagles, sold out in an instant. No household limits, could be a handful of dealers with 75% of the total mintage.
2019 & 2020 are still around because no mintage limit. They’ll make em until they’re sick of making them
Actually, they don't make them after the calendar turns. They'll keep selling them until they are out or want to melt the remaining inventory
@morgansforever said:
19 and 20 4 piece gold sets are available but not the 21. Seems this is the latest craze regarding gold and silver Eagles, sold out in an instant. No household limits, could be a handful of dealers with 75% of the total mintage.
The household limits were removed after 24 hours. This is the normal procedure for most releases. The perpetual HHL is more the exception.
Since they had sold more than 90% of the mintage before the HHL came off, it is nearly impossible for dealers to harness that many unless they bought them from flippers.
@Peyroguy said:
Ok, so I assume the mint will boost all gold and platinum coins to expedited shipping, well that's what it says. Two things I don't understand, if I get free budget shipping, but checked the expedited charge, do I have to pay? Another thing I don't get, why don't they send, let's say both my 1/2 and 1/10th in the same shipment? I assume this would cut down on loss in every area, I get this is a government ran business, but I would guess this is not that hard to accomplish.
You get free budget shipping, not free expedited shipping. Of course you have to pay.
They do ship things together if you order them together. If you ordered them separately, they don't group them.
Honestly, you DON'T necessarily want them shipping them together. One delayed item will delay everything.
Makes sense, but why do they list this if they don't bump budget shipping up to expedited
So I just talked to the customer service representative, now I can only assume she knows more than me about the shipping rules, but did say that anyone who buys gold will be automatically bumped up to expedited shipping. Know she says because of the need for signature and insurance that it would be done. I actually picked the expedited for my 1/10th, but mistakenly used the budget shipping for my 1/2. I guess we shall see, you would think they would want this because of the chance of packages getting stolen.
@Peyroguy said:
Ok, so I assume the mint will boost all gold and platinum coins to expedited shipping, well that's what it says. Two things I don't understand, if I get free budget shipping, but checked the expedited charge, do I have to pay? Another thing I don't get, why don't they send, let's say both my 1/2 and 1/10th in the same shipment? I assume this would cut down on loss in every area, I get this is a government ran business, but I would guess this is not that hard to accomplish.
You get free budget shipping, not free expedited shipping. Of course you have to pay.
They do ship things together if you order them together. If you ordered them separately, they don't group them.
Honestly, you DON'T necessarily want them shipping them together. One delayed item will delay everything.
Makes sense, but why do they list this if they don't bump budget shipping up to expedite
They will automatically bump up the economy shipping on packages over a certain amount. That's different than you selecting expedited shipping.
@Peyroguy said:
Ok, so I assume the mint will boost all gold and platinum coins to expedited shipping, well that's what it says. Two things I don't understand, if I get free budget shipping, but checked the expedited charge, do I have to pay? Another thing I don't get, why don't they send, let's say both my 1/2 and 1/10th in the same shipment? I assume this would cut down on loss in every area, I get this is a government ran business, but I would guess this is not that hard to accomplish.
You get free budget shipping, not free expedited shipping. Of course you have to pay.
They do ship things together if you order them together. If you ordered them separately, they don't group them.
Honestly, you DON'T necessarily want them shipping them together. One delayed item will delay everything.
Makes sense, but why do they list this if they don't bump budget shipping up to expedite
They will automatically bump up the economy shipping on packages over a certain amount. That's different than you selecting expedited shipping.
It's so clear on the website, but yet seems vague. To me, as long as my 1/2 is bumped up I'm good with that. I wish they would just use UPS all the time, never have delays like the usps does.
Got two in my bag, fumbled with my keyboard, because you only have 2 or 3 seconds tops to complete Mint transactions, bam NOT AVAILABLE!. At least I have 2 in my bag will try again tomorrow.
I was able to get 1Oz and 1/4oz this morning at exactly 0430 local time, the past couple of days the switch had been at :33, :34, or :35. It was pretty smooth and fast checkout this morning but supplies went fast.
@JimTyler said:
Everybody sleep through the time change ? I was 5 minutes late before it hit me, there was nothing. I wonder if it will be an hour later today.
Wow, so funny, I kept reminding everybody to change their clocks, and completely forgot to change mine!!!!
@JimTyler said:
Everybody sleep through the time change ? I was 5 minutes late before it hit me, there was nothing. I wonder if it will be an hour later today.
Computer clocks automatically update. Mint website is a programmed update.
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USM09312xxx shipped
USM09298xxx still processing. I am hopping it ships tomorrow.
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they may mark it shipped on sat or sunday but the actual shipper won't see it until monday
My 1/10th and 1/4 were shipped by first class rather than UPS. Did this happen to others? In the past 1st class would be about the same but thanks to De Joy, who knows.
we can only hope they do not make it a habit to send our stuff first class.
did you pay for UPS or were you expecting the free bump from $4.95? (I know they used to do free bumps without a problem)
I got free shipping, maybe that is why. I just remember the policy for years was any order over $300 gets bumped up to UPS but apparently only if you are paying the $5. It's not like I had the option to do that. It's either free or you pay $20 or whatever for the upgrade, which was not clear to me and did not apply with a silver order about half the size recently.
Ok, so I assume the mint will boost all gold and platinum coins to expedited shipping, well that's what it says. Two things I don't understand, if I get free budget shipping, but checked the expedited charge, do I have to pay? Another thing I don't get, why don't they send, let's say both my 1/2 and 1/10th in the same shipment? I assume this would cut down on loss in every area, I get this is a government ran business, but I would guess this is not that hard to accomplish.
yes
perhaps something to suggest to them
I paid extra for overnight shipping, but still processing for now. Hope to see my package sometime next week.
My Gold Type Set
Are both coins on the same order? I actually prefer that they ship separately because some I might want graded (with first strike) and others not. To ensure I have that flexibility, I place on separate orders.
You get free budget shipping, not free expedited shipping. Of course you have to pay.
They do ship things together if you order them together. If you ordered them separately, they don't group them.
Honestly, you DON'T necessarily want them shipping them together. One delayed item will delay everything.
you'd need to suggest that the buyer can select "group orders in 1 shipment" as having single items in single boxes is how you get them in for grading by different people.
didn't see any this morning at 7:30am EST ?
Got a 1/2 oz!
About 5 minutes late today got the 4 coin set.
flipped to on sale at 7:35 and got one! woohoo!!!
Was able to put 1/2 ounce in my cart at 7:35 am. I see household limit restrictions have been lifted. So, I think I will not be able to get this coin again.
Looks like everything gone in about two minutes.
I was able to pick up a 1 and 1/2 ounce coin today, pretty fast checkout.
this morning was probably the smoothest check out process in the past few years for me with the mint. lol
Didn’t notice limits lifted would have changed my game plan
that red button flashes and i have a single track mind. Clickity-Click in a very specific order. minimizing keystrokes and mouse movements. It's fluid magic. Adjusting item count wasn't on the radar today.
I saw it was lifted yesterday.
I got 5 quarter ounce.
I actually had 20 1/10 ounce in my cart but couldn't check out fast enough. I got to play that game where I keep dropping the amount, but the number available drops faster than I drop my order. LOL
I'm still not sure I want them. lmfao. It's possible the price drops faster than the Mint ships...
On a related note, I thought my 4 coin set shipped yesterday. But then when I actually opened the email later, it was actually the 2021-W silver eagles that I ordered on February 20th.
Got a 4 coin set today. Store opens @7:35
Had 4 coin set in cart...took it out and grabbed 1/4 oz....from what I could tell they all flipped today.
19 and 20 4 piece gold sets are available but not the 21. Seems this is the latest craze regarding gold and silver Eagles, sold out in an instant. No household limits, could be a handful of dealers with 75% of the total mintage.
2019 & 2020 are still around because no mintage limit. They’ll make em until they’re sick of making them
I got a text message at 9:09am saying that the 21EF (4 coin sets) aw available. Lol.
Actually, they don't make them after the calendar turns. They'll keep selling them until they are out or want to melt the remaining inventory
The household limits were removed after 24 hours. This is the normal procedure for most releases. The perpetual HHL is more the exception.
Since they had sold more than 90% of the mintage before the HHL came off, it is nearly impossible for dealers to harness that many unless they bought them from flippers.
@jmlanzaf I see, thought maybe there was no limit right out of the gate. Completely missed this one, may I'll try tomorrow.
Makes sense, but why do they list this if they don't bump budget shipping up to expedited
So I just talked to the customer service representative, now I can only assume she knows more than me about the shipping rules, but did say that anyone who buys gold will be automatically bumped up to expedited shipping. Know she says because of the need for signature and insurance that it would be done. I actually picked the expedited for my 1/10th, but mistakenly used the budget shipping for my 1/2. I guess we shall see, you would think they would want this because of the chance of packages getting stolen.
But, the PO isn't really utilizing signature requirements, so I don't know really what will happen, I shall find out though.
They will automatically bump up the economy shipping on packages over a certain amount. That's different than you selecting expedited shipping.
There was a household limit of one initially.
It's so clear on the website, but yet seems vague. To me, as long as my 1/2 is bumped up I'm good with that. I wish they would just use UPS all the time, never have delays like the usps does.
USM09321NNN....RECEIVED 1/4 OZ. AND 1/2 OZ. LET'S SEE THE PRICE ACTION OVER NEXT WEEK OR SO.
For my 2021 ASE orders, even though I chose the cheapest shipping, the 3-coin order was shipped via UPS, 2-coin order was shipped via USPS.
Everybody sleep through the time change ? I was 5 minutes late before it hit me, there was nothing. I wonder if it will be an hour later today.
nada
Got two in my bag, fumbled with my keyboard, because you only have 2 or 3 seconds tops to complete Mint transactions, bam NOT AVAILABLE!. At least I have 2 in my bag will try again tomorrow.
The mint slept in.
I was able to get 1Oz and 1/4oz this morning at exactly 0430 local time, the past couple of days the switch had been at :33, :34, or :35. It was pretty smooth and fast checkout this morning but supplies went fast.
I was able to snag a 1/10 oz at 7:30 am EST.
Any idea how many buyers meet that criteria and took advantage. I can’t imagine many moved that way but what do I know.
Wow, so funny, I kept reminding everybody to change their clocks, and completely forgot to change mine!!!!
Computer clocks automatically update. Mint website is a programmed update.