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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sturmgrenadier, post: 1288747, member: 18711&quot;]<b>Questions about ordering</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I am only going to try ordering online. This may limit my chances of getting an order in, but I am not comfortable with ordering by phone, because I think there is too much room for error (credit card numbers juxtaposed/misrecorded, etc.) that might not be discovered until its&#039;s too late. Plus, how do you know that the order# they gave you is legitimately logged in the system? Do they send an order confirmation to your email address on record with them? I like ordering online, because you can clearly see the status of your order from the time you successfully place it by clicking the submit button.</p><p><br /></p><p>This may be a dumb question too, but what does the mint mean when it says orders placed before noon will not be honored. By definition, isn&#039;t there system only set up to take [legitimate] orders beginning at noon? Do we really have to worry about jumping the gun by filling our basket with the item and clicking submit too soon? Its a confusing statement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, when attempting to place an order online, how can one differentiate between whether the mint contractor&#039;s server has crashed (has come to a standstill due to being overwhelmed by traffic) and when it is just being slow (yet still processing orders in the order users have connected)? What I mean is how do you know when to give up on an ordering session (when the screen appears frozen or keeps saying &#039;connecting&#039; etc.) and to close your browser and reopen a new session? Or are you better off just sticking with the ordering session you have opened no matter how long ( 5 minutes? 15 minutes, a half hour?)? I guess an &#039;error&#039; message is a good sign that you need to open a new ordering session in a new browser window? Maybe some IT folks can chime in and enlighten some of us less technically savvy collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>One colleague of mine at work plans to call the 1-800-USA-MInt&nbsp; order number 10 to 15 minutes in advance and stall by asking many legitimate questions about other prodcuts (written down on a pad beforehand) until the noon opening. I wonder if such shenanigans will be tolerated?</p><p><br /></p><p>And as a final comment, I think this will be an extremely fast sell-out (within first 3 hours or so). The news reports about the Lincoln Chronicles Set selling out two years ago in about 30 hours is completely false. I attempted to place an online order during my lunch hour of the first day, failed due to the heavy traffic, came home at 4:30 PM and apparently made a successful online order (order# issued and appeared in my order history), and the next day it was canceled with a terse notice of &#039;product mintage reached&#039;. So don&#039;t go celebrating too soon even if you get an order confirmation, because the contractor&#039;s server is apparently &#039;stupid&#039;: it keeps taking orders well past the mintage limit and then axes excess ones. You&#039;ll have to wait a few days or so to know for sure that your order is truly going to be processed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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