usmints website crashed right at noon.
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Youd expect theyd be ready for the demand...
nope.
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More Than It's Chopped Up To Be
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WOW. My account gets un-logged in right at noon.
I try to log back in and it says "not available - refresh" ... and then my account gets locked.
Minor Variety Trade dollar's with chop marks set:
More Than It's Chopped Up To Be
What a mess, 10 minutes of trying so far
Refreshed 50 times, finally saw that my saved info was incorrect, and, I think, successful ay 9:09
glad it is not just me, and that I did not presale
Just had to stick with it. I went through the "refresh" drill 20 or 30 times until it finally charged my card and showed a confirmation number at 12:11.
Its making me type all my info again but crashes before I can finish...
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why do I have to enter credit card information .... if I have a saved card ?
Minor Variety Trade dollar's with chop marks set:
More Than It's Chopped Up To Be
The USMint needs to pay/hire better computer science people. This is unnecessary / blatantly incompetent. Government. heh.
Minor Variety Trade dollar's with chop marks set:
More Than It's Chopped Up To Be
f*cked
Loves me some shiny!
annnnd sold out.
Minor Variety Trade dollar's with chop marks set:
More Than It's Chopped Up To Be
got to checkout, but at 9:18, no longer a valid product
Well, that was fun.........NOT
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Yeah. Never got through the entire checkout. All gone. What a frenzy.
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Tried for 20 minutes to check out, now the product is no longer available. What a joke.
We all had a snowball's chance in hell.
Same thing here. Kept giving me errors at final place order screen and never let me order
Swing and a miss for me too.
All backed up and jacked up.
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Got one. Refreshed 30 times finally went through
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Finally added a junk item to try another way to my cart. Finally got to my cart at 12:19 ..... but of course the Eagle was not available.
What a load of stuff. Shut out by OOPS THERE WAS A PROBLEM.
Five swings and three outs
you think noon is bad? It crashed at 8 AM here
Epic fail
My brother had no luck- locked him out of account incorrect password notice kept coming up- he buys alot from the mint. I got in and it kept crashing on payment info like others too- got to entering my ccv code twice and crashed, kept refreshing and looks like I finally got one- got a confirm number anyways! Had to be right at the end around 12:15
I got an order confirmation. Will they cancel the order on me if too many orders from other people went through?
I had one in my cart, confirmed shipping and billing, oops an error, refresh, item not available.
But if it was in my cart.....
Why was PayPal not an option for payment? Showed credit card only.
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epic fail and total waste of time. what a pisser
Hey, if it's any consolation they have lots of other junk you can order.
At checkout a half dozen times and kept knocking me off until the message of no longer available. I'm canceling my subscriptions. Done with the mint!!!!
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As I said on another thread, the extremely low announced mintage was bound to attract hordes of flippers and collectors to this website all at the same time. The Mint's website got a free stress test and volume test today, courtesy of its customers …. and failed.
The website (and the Mint's director) today got the hammering they so richly deserved.
This says it all.
That's my fear too.
Not really sure if the mint cares that the website can’t handle the traffic. Coins all sold. People will do it again next flipping opportunity. It also creates a hype for the items and a sort of random lottery of purchases. Who knows if the last order was fulfilled by the first visitor or if the first with an item in the cart was shut out because of internet quality.
If the website could actually take the orders without crashing the sellout would be in seconds not minutes and people would still miss out.
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It would be some small consolation if the mint director was out of a job by tomorrow morning.
have also posted this on another thread
So here is my sad tale:
I called a customer rep 10 minutes before coin went on sale. I also had the mint web site active on my computer. The CSR immediately tried to place the order for me when the coin became available but her site went down when she was trying to place the order. She was never able to place my order! I was able to place my order into my cart on line but when I tried to make payment for the order, the "oops something went wrong" message came up. I keep hitting the refresh button and after 5 times after it refreshed, it would still would not complete my order. Then the dreaded "Item is no longer available" popped up and sank my boat. The CSR also received this message as she was still on the phone with me in hopes that I could complete my purchase on line. Left a negative feedback on their survey form. The CSR has put me on a " Waiting list" for any purchase that does not "sell". She asked me if I had an email alert prior to the coins going on sale. I told her no. It came in later at 12:38 ET. oh well.
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Coin in cart at 12 noon , played the refresh game for 18 minutes and item in cart magically converted to sold out/invalid.
I figured this would happen. What will eBay sellers who counted on this do now?
Glad this is over.
Sooooooo glad I gave up on such idiocy.
No they will not cancel due to quantity sold to others. They always go unavailable with coins left. Once they figure out what actually sold (valid orders). This item will reappear for sale.
Actually, if they oversold it, they will cancel orders. Hasn't happened in a while, but the system was definitely overmatched today.
I also wouldn't expect to see too many reappear. Most reappearances are canceled orders. With a HHL of 1, you have to cancel a lot of orders to get more than a handful appear one morning at 7:30
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The phone lines were just as bad....tried and tried....got through after 13:00....all gone. Cheers, RickO
Pretty much nailed it. And there'd still be a bunch of unhappy people.
Had friends and family try, 6 online 4 by phone, no luck. I finally got through at 12:14 and the rep told me that they aren't taking any orders for the 19XE.
Crash would seem to be an understatment. according to a mint salesman the coin was sold out within three minutes. They admitted that it was a Mint Server crash and that the mint will be addressing the issue, he had no information on how, or when.
Is three minutes a new record for the Mint?
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