V75 GOLD Eagle - If You Tried Did You Get It?

I'm just curious how many people here tried and were able to get a V75 GOLD Eagle.

I tried and tried, got all the banned screens and was not even able to get to add it to my cart before it was sold out at 12:08 PM.

8 Minutes. Wow. That's crazy!

Was anyone here able to get it?

Admittedly I was going to flip the Gold V75 if I got it because it is not in my budget. But I got an email from JM Bullion offering to buy it from me for $950 more than the price and that seemed like a lot of money for a simple transaction. So much for that.

 

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I tried the gold first and was able to get one in my cart and get to checkout with it. However the site forgot my stored data, and I was frustrated to enter all of my information time after time, until the coin was no longer available. I have my dark suspicions about why some dealers got theirs and I did not, but who really knows?

 

I'm sorry you weren't able to get it. Can I ask what your suspicions are?

 

nothing concrete, however once a coin is in my cart, and I am ready to pay, and the mint already has my payment data, how can a coin be removed from my cart?

 

Same here! I had set up my account to accept 1-button Paypal payment and had the gold coin in my cart, but when it came time to pay the USMint site "forgot" all my info! Even my credit card info. By the time I entered the info manually the gold coin was removed from my cart. Later on when I tried to buy a cheap $1 coin, the auto Paypal payment mechanism mysteriously came back! Pathetic!

 

Same thing happened to me...snapped right out of my cart while I was pressing the complete button!!!

 

The coin was taken from your cart? That would have been preferable to me. I also made it to checkout with the gold V25. Same result with oops, error, blocked, had to enter CC info manually, etc. The coin remained in my cart.

I finally gave up and moved on to the silver V75. My problem started after the same problems encountered with the silver. The gold was still in the cart and wouldn't let me checkout until I removed it. So I removed it and the problems with oops, error, resurfaced. It might have been an easier checkout if the unavailable gold was automatically removed like it was for you guys.

 

Sorry, I should clarify. Like you the gold coin was still in the cart but it said that it was no longer available. I had to remove it also to try to get the silver coin, which I didn't get either because of web site problems. And there were 70,000 of the silver coins. Horrible experience with the US Mint site...

 

My experience was similar to others above. I was able to put the gold eagle in my cart, but by the time it recognized my card info, it was “no longer available”. I did manage to get an ASE, though. It was 12:25 by the time I had finally checked out.
You’d think the US Mint would lease some extra capacity for events like this, but then again, we are talking about the extremely efficient US government here.

 

I was logged in at 11:50, then got bumped out around 11:58 with an "Oops, something went wrong message." I tried many times to log back in each time getting the same "oops" message. I finally got back in at 12:10 or so and found the Gold V75 was no longer available. I tried to access the Silver V75 screen several times each time getting the "oops" message but with patience and discovering that if I clicked the back button and waited, I could get the prior page. I did finally manage to get the Silver V75 into my cart, but had to click back and wait several times to complete the purchase. Frustratingly annoying. There must be a better way to conduct such sales.

 

The only thing more annoying was to get the silver V75 in your cart and get pretty far through the check out process several times including to the last step over an hour and 45 minutes, on 3 different devices at two different locations and STILL not be able to get one.
I'd be curious to know how some get through and some don't. It must be a refresh getting through at the right nano second to continue the process but when it crashes again for the next step, how do you ever get through it?

 

I was able to get the gold V75 into my bag 4 times, even made it to the place order page. Prompt came up that said processing order, don't click on any buttons. And then it just said the infamous " OOPS" message! 4 effin times. Thoroughly disgusted with in US MINT!

 

I skipped the headache and misery by not even trying. LOL

 

It pleases me greatly that you weren't able to get one.

 

Wow.

 

Had the gold In my cart all the way to this screen and like others got kicked off the site....
Did manage to get silver and the confirmation but still processing and hasn’t shipped yet per their site..

 

There is something badly wrong with all of this. It’ll take something like the General Services Administration to find out what. All we will ever get from the Mint are mouthfuls of worthless excuses.

 

Similar story for me-I put the Gold coin in my cart at 12:00:01 - and got bumped out out shortly thereafter. I went through a set of "Are you a human being" checkboxes and questions - I finally gave up at 12:15, and didn't bother with the silver coin - huge hassle!

I received an offer from Pinehurst Coins that they would give me $6,000.00 for the gold coin if I contacted them by 4:00 with a receipt. That would have been pretty sweet. They offered $400.00 for the silver coins.

Maybe the mint should outsource its sales platform to Amazon. Just saying ...

 

Wife and I tried to get a gold. Were signed in 10 min prior, waiting patiently...as soon as 12:00 hit, website crashed. Once we were able to load the pages we were logged out of our accounts and hit with the endless gauntlet of CAPTCHA boat/bike pages...and then the IP bans for having to refresh the pages once they hung. Wife got as far as having one in her shopping bag, I never even got the gold page to load again after noon hit.

Pivoted to the silver. Had same problems until we'd both given up (assumed that they'd both sold out.) Saw someone on a thread somewhere say they were just able to snag one - then my dad called saying he was able to get one for me, so we tried again.

Eventually were able to pick up three of the silver, so it wasn't a total loss...but man, we really wanted to get at least one of the gold pieces.

Maybe it would be better for the CAPTCHA gauntlet to start...you know...like a half hour before the sale starts. Or ten minutes...because if the point is to prove you're a real human and not a bot...maybe give actual humans a chance to do it ONCE and stay logged in.

Tinfoil Hat Time: Couldn't help myself speculating that the CAPTCHA gauntlet was something designed to keep us regular folk busy while more valuable customers completed their orders.

 

Those CAPTCHA images totally sucked. You shouldn't have to guess whether there is a part of a bicycle there, and is that ENOUGH of a bicycle to say, "yes, there's a bicycle" or not or . . . maybe (?) that's actually a motor scooter. I would really like to find the dude who prepared those images and kick him hard in the nuts so he can feel what he did to a lot of other folks.