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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 505103, member: 13650&quot;]Frankly, I&#039;ve got a different &#039;M&#039; word for it.&nbsp; I think they&#039;re being Marketed in the old, classic way.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; &quot;The 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin will be produced and orders fulfilled, <b>subject to gold blank availability</b>. To ensure the broadest and most fair product access, a <b>household order limit of one (1)</b> coin is currently in effect. The household order limit will be re-evaluated on a weekly basis and the United States Mint will either extend, adjust or remove the limit as needed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Are they being honest?&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp;&nbsp; To me it would appear they could be trying to create a stir and maybe even un-needed panic, playing on people&#039;s fears.&nbsp;&nbsp; Trying to move product.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; There&#039;s no way of knowing what they have or what their intentions are.&nbsp; But look at this board.&nbsp; It&#039;s lit up with people talking &#039;back order&#039; which is inciting panic and making people question whether or not they need to order one now too.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Let&#039;s face it.&nbsp; There&#039;s already &quot;X&quot; number of people who are going to buy one.&nbsp; They have these people&#039;s money locked in no matter what propaganda they put out.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the people on the fence....there&#039;s the people who need to be targeted.&nbsp; The people who may have otherwise waited.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So how do you nudge them over the fence?&nbsp;&nbsp; Create panic.&nbsp; Make it look like these will run out early and maybe not everybody will get one.&nbsp; &nbsp; All these people who may have waited and ended up not buying one down the road, now are buyers out of fear.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It costs them nothing to use this tactic.&nbsp; They can lift the order limit in April, May, July, whenever, and let all the bulk orders flood in then.&nbsp; Now is the chance to incite panic after last year&#039;s &quot;planchet&quot; shortage.&nbsp; Not bullion shortage.&nbsp; Planchet shortage.&nbsp;&nbsp; Which in this economic climate and for how long last years bullion products have been sold out, they should have been cranking out planchets like they never have before, in the past several months, in preparation for &#039;09.&nbsp; There&#039;s plenty of people to hire to work around the clock and obviously the profit is there for the taking.&nbsp;&nbsp; So I ask why should there be a planchet shortage again?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; People buying today took a 50/50 chance.&nbsp;&nbsp; Gold&#039;s either going to climb in the short term or dive.&nbsp; &nbsp; As my luck goes, as soon as I buy something, the price drops.&nbsp; As soon as I sell, it climbs.&nbsp; So I&#039;ll contently sit on the sidelines and see what this does throughout the year, as the price possibly changes *WEEKLY*.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2009 has 343 days left and there&#039;s no shortage of other coins to buy.&nbsp; &nbsp; We&#039;ll see how this pans out.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The long term value I think is there.&nbsp; Short term, I think it would be better to wait and see.&nbsp; Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; As an example, the DOW was cruising along in the 14,000s barely a year ago.&nbsp; It dropped to 11k and people were telling me to get in while it&#039;s low!&nbsp;&nbsp; Very few imagined we&#039;d see it settle back into the 7,000s to begin 09 (and probably getting worse).&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Some unforeseen thing could send gold plummeting just as easily.&nbsp; We&#039;re still riding on a peak, lets not forget.&nbsp;&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; With manipulation and less people buying jewelery and other gold luxury items for a while, gold could take a bad hit this year as supply increases and demand goes down.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; Did the main bullion investors get in, in 08?&nbsp; Or will more be flocking to it in 09?&nbsp; What if this stimulus package starts a recovery process in 09?&nbsp; What if the market starts creeping back up?&nbsp; People will panic!&nbsp; Large amounts of bullion will be unloaded to get cash back into the markets to catch the upswing, and gold could dive.&nbsp;&nbsp; Very volatile times we live in.&nbsp; I guess nothing would surprise me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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