225th Anniversary Enhanced Uncirculated Coin Set *Back in Stock*

Truthfully, I am disappointed that they sold them at the show. Especially since they were available there before they were on the Mint website.

I don't know if that constitutes catering to "dealers", but rather catering to the ANA. Both are reprehensible in my eyes, as I got shut out at the initial offering. But some might say that I am just bitter. My point is that if they aren't available until Noon, Tuesday, why were they available before Noon?

 

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They went on sale at the mint at 1200 EST. The show didn't open until 1500 EST.

 

oh... then I feel silly. I have never been to an ANA show that opened that late, but I guess it's the difference in time zone that I didn't consider.

 

They are still available from the mint. I got 4 at mint price. I hope that the big dealers get burnt for trying to hog them. If anyone wants them, go to the mint. Why would anyone pay a premium for a coin classified as "first release", "first strike" or any of the other arbitrary labels?

 

It seems a little weird to me that they're still available more than a week later. I think the real reason the Mint quit selling the sets is their website crashed in the first few minutes.

 

Still available, of late, as they well should be. 250 thousand plus shouldn't sell out in ten minutes. If it does, then the flippers and speculators be danged.......for want and greed.

 

I think there's 225,000 sets. You know, 225th anniversary.

 

The website has crashed before, so you may be right.

 

Indeed, but two weeks later? Still available.....

 

There are some very slow people out there. I see them selling for $39 and up on eBay, even today with the mint still offering them. Several hundred have been sold by my quick survey.

 

Got 1 of mine today. I'm glad I was able to buy one from the Mint. Big time kudos to my CT friends who gave me the heads up that they were available again.

 

Maybe somebody ordered 225,000 sets at the opening and their cc was rejected.

I'm still waiting for mine, which won't arrive until next Wednesday, according to the tracking info - slow, even for the mint!

I clicked the "remind me" button when they were unavailable, not expecting anything, but the next morning I got the email saying they were again available, and jumped on it. Who knew they'd still be available now. Strange...but, hey, those of us who didn't expect to get any without paying a premium were able to do so in the end

 

Had the reaction to these sets been more positive when people saw them, I believe that they'd have sold out a few days ago.

 

They probably planned to mark this as sold out in ten minutes regardless of sales so the HSN coinshow dealers can say, "This sold out in 10 minnnnnnutes!"

 

Had they been more popular they would have remained sold out on the first day. A handful probably would have been available the next day from rejected CCs but the large order cancellations wouldn't have happened. I'm betting a lot of people at Denver were saying "I waited in line for this?".

 

The Coin World story said that the 20,000 sets that came available did so because the transaction couldn't be completed. a.k.a. - declined credit card

Likely someone getting greedy that they got in, and if so, it serves them right

 

The US Mint still has these sets available at this time.

 

Letting it decline is also a clever way of getting out of the order without cancelling and angering the mint. If these had a strong aftermarket I bet they would have found a way to pay or they would have been snapped back up again

 

they were selling on eBay for twice issue and the prices didn't start dropping until the card got declined.

and no, the Mint doesn't ask you if you have another means of payment if your CC gets declined.

I don't understand your logic

 

Note that it doesn't say 20,000 were ALL that were returned... speculation in the press is that next Sunday's mint report (released Tuesday, the 15th) will show a further drop.

http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-co...-sales-of-enhanced-uncirculated-coin-set.html

Also the article says that sales at the show resumed on the 4th with 800 sets...