U.S. Mint Website Suggestions

I could go for that, I've got thirteen different addresses I can use. And can set up accounts in other names for each of those addresses. I'll be OK as long as no address gets picked twice in the same drawing.

They probably already do something like that. But remember most of the recent gold commems have had total sales in the 10 - 20K range. So "market research would probably say to strike about 10K proofs and 5K uncs. Then they sold out the entire 50K authorization in one day. What they had were shipped immediately and now everyone is seeing constantly changing delivery dates while they try to catch up striking more. (And market research is c***shoot when you are selling somethin unlike anything else you have ever sold before.)

 

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Interesting ideas, though thse are product suggestions as opposed to website oriented.

I'm sure someone will quickly figure out a way to exploit the household limits rather than play according to the idea of the rules to ensure one unit per recipient and not someone just using proxies to get more than their fair share of the limited supply... if you review, I did work into my idea, a few lines after the part you quoted, "allow customers to place one order request per confirmed unique Mint customer account with email, billing and shipping addresses matching. Delivery would be enforced to the mailing address on the account and to who billing is verified to each customer." There are a lot of hurdles to jump to get that many unique accounts, addresses, billing and mailing addresses covered.

One of the problems that plagues the Mint trying to figure out fairer distribution of limited products is people's (customers) insistence (gluttony and greed) on taking more than the limit attempts to allow them.

The interest in baseball themes on a coin is far greater than WW2 Generals on coins, where the generation who remembers those icons is very senior and the demand for Girl Scouts coins, amongst a primarily male dominated hobby like coin collecting, pretty easy to expect lower demand. It's not a crap shoot if the Mint pays any attention and realizes that it's customers are gobbling up items that are "unlike anything else you have ever sold before"... I think of the recent Silver Eagle anniversary sets since 2006, the AGB Reverse Proof coins (amongst others), the UHR in 2009 and these are all coins with loyal followings, easy to identify demand and one of a kind offerings. Albeit, the Mint has tinkered with each of those coin releases differently, they should by now have some friggin' clue as to what to expect, and if they over-produce, they'll just melt and make new blanks from the units made in precious metals. They melted 2009 UHR coins and plenty of others left in inventory when they couldn't sell them all.