I cannot believe that I could have started the buying process at 1:00 PM EDT and likely purchased a coin rather easily. You know what would be really funny, though? That the first hour was sluggish solely due to DDOS attacks and the actual demand for this coin is minimal; that is, this coin is a bomb and the flippers get burned.
@53BKid said:
For everyone who claims this is the worst web experience ever, don't kid yourself. The U.S. Mint always sucks on new limited product offerings.
A press release with an apology from the Mint Director will be forthcoming later this week, explaining they're doing everything they can to address the issues.
But it will be just as bad on the next hot offering and every one after that as well.
I'm one of those that claims it was the worst experience ever. I definitely cannot claim to have been here forever, but this is definitely the worst time I've personally had. I don't know how to rate this beyond my experience, but being over an hour in and having 50k of them still remaining seems to indicate a huge problem. These aren't still around because people don't want to purchase them, but because nobody can purchase them. Consider how quickly most of the limited product offerings have sold out, it would at least indicate that many people were getting through easily enough on the prior ones.
Anyway, probably just splitting hairs. I completely agree they are always crazy
Check your bank accounts…looks like I had six go through with all the crashes but looks like they are reversing charges
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@53BKid said:
For everyone who claims this is the worst web experience ever, don't kid yourself. The U.S. Mint always sucks on new limited product offerings.
A press release with an apology from the Mint Director will be forthcoming later this week, explaining they're doing everything they can to address the issues.
But it will be just as bad on the next hot offering and every one after that as well.
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It won't be as bad going forward.
A lot of us Type 1 ASE collectors have had it with the Mint and will no longer be competing.
Also, I think they're bankrupt of new ideas for PM gimmicks.
@53BKid said:
For everyone who claims this is the worst web experience ever, don't kid yourself. The U.S. Mint always sucks on new limited product offerings.
A press release with an apology from the Mint Director will be forthcoming later this week, explaining they're doing everything they can to address the issues.
But it will be just as bad on the next hot offering and every one after that as well.
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It won't be as bad going forward.
A lot of us Type 1 ASE collectors have had it with the Mint and will no longer be competing.
Also, I think they're bankrupt of new ideas for PM gimmicks.
Agreed. I've stopped at the Type 1's, so I sincerely hope this is my last hurrah with ASE's.
@53BKid said:
For everyone who claims this is the worst web experience ever, don't kid yourself. The U.S. Mint always sucks on new limited product offerings.
A press release with an apology from the Mint Director will be forthcoming later this week, explaining they're doing everything they can to address the issues.
But it will be just as bad on the next hot offering and every one after that as well.
.
It won't be as bad going forward.
A lot of us Type 1 ASE collectors have had it with the Mint and will no longer be competing.
Also, I think they're bankrupt of new ideas for PM gimmicks.
It will be as bad as long as groups target these for flipping and commit to DDOS (Direct Denial of Service) attacks. Basically flooding the mints servers with thousands of requests per second on top of the high volume from buyers, in order to constantly bring the servers down.
The only way you can counter this is by basically being Amazon and having massive data centers all over the country to handle the insane traffic coming in.
Professional Numismatist. "It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
@Batman23 said:
An hour and a half in and there appear to be plenty left. Did everyone give up in the first half hour of hell or are these not as hot as we thought?
I grabbed two:
12:43 11504xxx
13:01 11520xxx
I think these are hot, but when thousands of people hit the website all at once, it doesn't lend itself to many orders being fulfilled in the first hour. It took me 48 minutes of bouncing around to get mine. My guess is that the initial crush has abated some and the website is handling orders faster now. I'd be very surprised to see this not sell out today.
So it took me around 20 minutes to get the first one. I apparently got the second one around 1:06. But my "ordering laptop" is not the computer where my mail goes. So I had no idea. I never got a "your order was successful!" message. At one point my cart DID empty out, and that was probably it. But I ran to the email computer and didn't see anything. I also got weird stuff where it removed my payment info and replaced that part of the cart with "your payment information is not valid for this product" but it would STILL let me check out, although it would error at that point.
FINALLY I started getting "you've exceeded your household limit" messages at 1:20 and then I saw the second email.
I was on the phone with a buddy who was also trying to order, and getting the same kinds of issues. He got his around 1pm as well.
I received a confirming email with order number at 12:42 ET.....So, I guess I got one. Had a couple of confusing starts and stops, but I guess it went through eventually. Surprise, surprise...Cheers, RickO
It won't be as bad going forward.
A lot of us Type 1 ASE collectors have had it with the Mint and will no longer be competing.
Also, I think they're bankrupt of new ideas for PM gimmicks.
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Not quite don't forget these!!! one more W Type 1 (for the label makers)
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I cannot believe that I could have started the buying process at 1:00 PM EDT and likely purchased a coin rather easily. You know what would be really funny, though? That the first hour was sluggish solely due to DDOS attacks and the actual demand for this coin is minimal; that is, this coin is a bomb and the flippers get burned.
Yeah I saw you were struggling hard, glad you didn't give up!
Thank u!!!!!
Less than 60,000 sold in the first hour... what a looser!
That is a neat thing you found there.
How do you know this?
Took me about 60 seconds from start to finish . We'll see how that works out.
I had two brothers just get theirs as well- after 1:00 eastern
How do you say that, I calculate at least 110k orders from 12:11 to 5 minutes ago.
I might be wrong.
Might as well put one in the bag since its soo much fun... breakfast club
I'm one of those that claims it was the worst experience ever. I definitely cannot claim to have been here forever, but this is definitely the worst time I've personally had. I don't know how to rate this beyond my experience, but being over an hour in and having 50k of them still remaining seems to indicate a huge problem. These aren't still around because people don't want to purchase them, but because nobody can purchase them. Consider how quickly most of the limited product offerings have sold out, it would at least indicate that many people were getting through easily enough on the prior ones.
Anyway, probably just splitting hairs. I completely agree they are always crazy
Check your bank accounts…looks like I had six go through with all the crashes but looks like they are reversing charges
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41,300 as of 1:25
Two orders finally. Terrible experience.
I place one more order by mistake, the site state "exceed HHL...".
Holy S!!@, finally my brother and I got it, 1 hour after going on sale
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It won't be as bad going forward.
A lot of us Type 1 ASE collectors have had it with the Mint and will no longer be competing.
Also, I think they're bankrupt of new ideas for PM gimmicks.
I think my ordeal getting last year's privy mark ASE was just a bit worse than this, but not by much.
An hour and a half in and there appear to be plenty left. Did everyone give up in the first half hour of hell or are these not as hot as we thought?
I grabbed two:
12:43 11504xxx
13:01 11520xxx
My wife had her CC hit 3 times with only 2 refunds, leaving one charged. Looks like the Mint is doing something correct!
Agreed. I've stopped at the Type 1's, so I sincerely hope this is my last hurrah with ASE's.
This may have been difficult or even unpleasant, but it did avoid a fast sell out and allowed more people access to try and purchase one.
It will be as bad as long as groups target these for flipping and commit to DDOS (Direct Denial of Service) attacks. Basically flooding the mints servers with thousands of requests per second on top of the high volume from buyers, in order to constantly bring the servers down.
The only way you can counter this is by basically being Amazon and having massive data centers all over the country to handle the insane traffic coming in.
Professional Numismatist. "It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
"hhl LIMIT REACHED" BUT HAVE NO ORDER IN EMAIL OR ORDER HISTORY
Just for kicks tried for another set and was in and out.
USM11620***
I think these are hot, but when thousands of people hit the website all at once, it doesn't lend itself to many orders being fulfilled in the first hour. It took me 48 minutes of bouncing around to get mine. My guess is that the initial crush has abated some and the website is handling orders faster now. I'd be very surprised to see this not sell out today.
So it took me around 20 minutes to get the first one. I apparently got the second one around 1:06. But my "ordering laptop" is not the computer where my mail goes. So I had no idea. I never got a "your order was successful!" message. At one point my cart DID empty out, and that was probably it. But I ran to the email computer and didn't see anything. I also got weird stuff where it removed my payment info and replaced that part of the cart with "your payment information is not valid for this product" but it would STILL let me check out, although it would error at that point.
FINALLY I started getting "you've exceeded your household limit" messages at 1:20 and then I saw the second email.
I was on the phone with a buddy who was also trying to order, and getting the same kinds of issues. He got his around 1pm as well.
Finally got one at 1:17 There has to be a better way...
did you use the same mint account??
No.
I received a confirming email with order number at 12:42 ET.....So, I guess I got one. Had a couple of confusing starts and stops, but I guess it went through eventually. Surprise, surprise...Cheers, RickO
1:28p Not much trouble, slow but I stayed with it.
USM11613xxx
28,170 left as of 1:38
mine still says HHL reached but no email and no order number
So did anyone see a ship date? I wonder if the mint will be able to get these out this year, lol.
How do you know this? Thank you.
Just got another one on my phone and my father's address and CC. Unbelievable. USM11639xxx. Went right through.
Does your bag show empty? If so, you might be good. Also check your CC or bank account for a ping.
Look at the HTML by using the browsers inspect function.
@MsMorrisine check your spam
check the page html. find 'availableCount' within
Wow!!! Wonder it will even sell out today
The mint did a great job with the household limit of 1. Everyone complaining really shouldn’t be IMO.
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Not quite don't forget these!!! one more W Type 1 (for the label makers)
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they will, they're selling about 1000 a minute.
Down to 22,000 available.
Still up.
20,875 at 1:45
I tried 8 or 9 times I might have 8 or 9 orders stacked up lets see if they ship them all out!
righty tighy, lefty loosy