@jmlanzaf said:
I'm just going to throw this out there, if anyone knows. Is it possible that the Mint does NOT immediately book sales until payment clears or 15 days passes or some such nonsense?
possible I suppose. unknown tho. maybe 1 week for returns?
I say they see sales figures for other mint sets and decide to put the remaining back on sale for the duration.
perhaps they do a visual on the outside of the OGP, and anything without a crushed black box gets put back on sale. The rest are either reholdered or they fire up the presses again.
@jmlanzaf said:
I'm just going to throw this out there, if anyone knows. Is it possible that the Mint does NOT immediately book sales until payment clears or 15 days passes or some such nonsense?
possible I suppose. unknown tho. maybe 1 week for returns?
Sales are immediate. Otherwise the number wouldn't go down after the CC's have been declined.
31K sets seems an excessive number of returns. Should they have gotten that number, then it might take them this long to go through that number of returns. (I assume they would open each set to make sure the contents is there, and that would take quite a long time.)
Only thing to do now is wait for an explanation from the Mint. We'll get one sooner or later.
@BigA said:
I take the other side.....not worth the effort for a $30 set.
Done.....except for a few (less than 100) CC issues and returns
I agree. I am still suspicious of that huge gap in the product schedule between mid-October and the end of the year. I suspect there will be another mint product introduced.
But remember that producing 30K of these sets wouldn't be a problem. They're probably still making proof and silver proof sets, and production of these really aren't any different than those.
@jmlanzaf said:
What makes the LEAST sense is this week. How did they sell 7000 sets but only register 2000 sales? There CAN'T be that many returns at this point. We're outside of 30 days in the initial sale. How could more than half of last week's sales been offset by returns?
They went unavailable on Saturday right? So the snapshot of sales was Sunday, so they should have shown all 7000 sets being sold.....but I did think the number went down too fast...maybe they withdrew several thousand for some reason?
There's always room for a Silver Mickey Mouse Medal. Maybe even a Gold one. The Mint has GOT to know they'd sell a bunch. So when do those stoned Ponies put those out?
@FullStrike said:
There's always room for a Silver Mickey Mouse Medal. Maybe even a Gold one. The Mint has GOT to know they'd sell a bunch. So when do those stoned Ponies put those out?
You must be talking about the Perth Mint. They have the contract to do Mickey Mouse. (No seriously, they do.)
@jmlanzaf said:
What makes the LEAST sense is this week. How did they sell 7000 sets but only register 2000 sales? There CAN'T be that many returns at this point. We're outside of 30 days in the initial sale. How could more than half of last week's sales been offset by returns?
They went unavailable on Saturday right? So the snapshot of sales was Sunday, so they should have shown all 7000 sets being sold.....but I did think the number went down too fast...maybe they withdrew several thousand for some reason?
D2
No, nurmaler's posts showed steady sales of several hundred per day.
I'm amazed at how much interest surrounds this issue. Would seem to bode well for the long term in terms of its popularity.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
@grote15 said:
I'm amazed at how much interest surrounds this issue. Would seem to bode well for the long term in terms of its popularity.
That's a stretch imho! Three or four posters are responsible for this thread getting constantly bumped.
I was being partly facetious, but there's almost 2,000 posts already and this remains one of the most frequently viewed threads on the forum. Usually, these threads that discuss Mint products are done & gone within a couple of weeks of issue.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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they went backwards again?
D2
Don't quote me on that.
unless the inventory numbers posted here are wrong, this has no rational explanation. there cannot be 2k MORE sets """"destroyed(???)"""" in a week.
possible I suppose. unknown tho. maybe 1 week for returns?
However this sorts out, it's looking likely that final mintage will be under 200k.
known - no backorder
known - unavailable for past few days with none reappearing in the a.m.
what was on sale date?
didn't the 225th Gold American Liberty sell out? jk....
I'm sure some folks on here recall some other sell outs....
Don't quote me on that.
what was on sale date?> @jmlanzaf said:
that one 2017 C Set is good enough for me
12 days = 1 week + (9th - 4th)
looks like a week delay
but
we were figuring about 400 net sales per day ... that's 2,800 + for a week and that has returns factored in already.
concur, extremely.
32,000 / 400 = ~80 days assuming no waning interest and 400 holds up.
I take the other side.....not worth the effort for a $30 set.
Done.....except for a few (less than 100) CC issues and returns
Interesting
I say they see sales figures for other mint sets and decide to put the remaining back on sale for the duration.
perhaps they do a visual on the outside of the OGP, and anything without a crushed black box gets put back on sale. The rest are either reholdered or they fire up the presses again.
no way they have 30,000+ damaged sets.
For the record...
Sales are immediate. Otherwise the number wouldn't go down after the CC's have been declined.
31K sets seems an excessive number of returns. Should they have gotten that number, then it might take them this long to go through that number of returns. (I assume they would open each set to make sure the contents is there, and that would take quite a long time.)
Only thing to do now is wait for an explanation from the Mint. We'll get one sooner or later.
It's a russian Conspiracy
I agree. I am still suspicious of that huge gap in the product schedule between mid-October and the end of the year. I suspect there will be another mint product introduced.
But remember that producing 30K of these sets wouldn't be a problem. They're probably still making proof and silver proof sets, and production of these really aren't any different than those.
I don't think there is any chance they mint any more.
They went unavailable on Saturday right? So the snapshot of sales was Sunday, so they should have shown all 7000 sets being sold.....but I did think the number went down too fast...maybe they withdrew several thousand for some reason?
D2
Don't quote me on that.
There's always room for a Silver Mickey Mouse Medal. Maybe even a Gold one. The Mint has GOT to know they'd sell a bunch. So when do those stoned Ponies put those out?
You must be talking about the Perth Mint. They have the contract to do Mickey Mouse. (No seriously, they do.)
No, nurmaler's posts showed steady sales of several hundred per day.
I'm amazed at how much interest surrounds this issue. Would seem to bode well for the long term in terms of its popularity.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
That's a stretch imho! Three or four posters are responsible for this thread getting constantly bumped.
I was being partly facetious, but there's almost 2,000 posts already and this remains one of the most frequently viewed threads on the forum. Usually, these threads that discuss Mint products are done & gone within a couple of weeks of issue.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
who do you mean?
are you sure??
You mean something like this?
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