230th Flowing Hair medal

PNGento

Can someone explain how it is that when this release specified that there was a limit of 1 (ONE) per household, it is that there are so many major sellers with clearly many multiples. Does 1 per household only apply to simple folk, but not to large vendors? Would like to know how this works for my own education.

M4Madness

Major dealers were able to place large, early orders.

JimTyler

One for first 24 hours then limit lifted.

JBK

There are a couple existing threads on this medal that mention this.

NJCoin

@PNGento said:
Can someone explain how it is that when this release specified that there was a limit of 1 (ONE) per household, it is that there are so many major sellers with clearly many multiples. Does 1 per household only apply to simple folk, but not to large vendors? Would like to know how this works for my own education.

Yes. For most Mint issues, including this one, large dealers buy through a separate sales channel to avoid having them compete with retail purchasers. The HHL of 1 for the first 24 hours only applied to us mere mortals.

In the past, before the Mint implemented this system for anticipated hot issues like this one, the large dealers would employ literal armies of proxies to storm the website. Causing it to crash, and creating frustration for everyone.

This system is certainly more efficient, but inherently unfair when it involves lottery prizes, since the large purchasers were inherently guaranteed to receive a number of prizes, while the rest of us were limited to a 2.4% chance on our purchase of 1.

And now people are chasing scraps when they are released at 7:30 a.m. each morning, hoping it is fresh stock returned to inventory, when there is a chance it has already been picked over by someone, stripped of the winners.

jmlanzaf

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