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<p>[QUOTE="silvermex, post: 1292900, member: 21164"]some one posted this in another forum </p><p>''First, the mint's wait list was not implemented at 4:30, according to the mint, but rather in the range of 5:15-5:30. I can't personally attest to the truth of this, as I was dealing with rush hour traffic during this period of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, there have been massive amounts of cancelled orders for these sets. The mint rep was able to confirm that there were customers that, through mistake or mischief, had placed orders numbering into the hundreds of sets. With the exception of the first five sets, all of those were cancelled, and those cases in which wrongdoing was obvious had a good chance of losing all of their sets. Apparently, starting in approx. 2008, collector complaints led the mint to develop a significant analytical engine to find persons or companies that were attempting to circumvent order limits, and this engine has supposedly been very successful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though not a perfect measure, the mint rep communicated to me that a good guess for a cutoff time on the current wait list is about 7:15PM EST. If you got your order in before this time, according to the mint's call center, you should be in line to receive your order.''[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silvermex, post: 1292900, member: 21164"]some one posted this in another forum ''First, the mint's wait list was not implemented at 4:30, according to the mint, but rather in the range of 5:15-5:30. I can't personally attest to the truth of this, as I was dealing with rush hour traffic during this period of time. Second, there have been massive amounts of cancelled orders for these sets. The mint rep was able to confirm that there were customers that, through mistake or mischief, had placed orders numbering into the hundreds of sets. With the exception of the first five sets, all of those were cancelled, and those cases in which wrongdoing was obvious had a good chance of losing all of their sets. Apparently, starting in approx. 2008, collector complaints led the mint to develop a significant analytical engine to find persons or companies that were attempting to circumvent order limits, and this engine has supposedly been very successful. Though not a perfect measure, the mint rep communicated to me that a good guess for a cutoff time on the current wait list is about 7:15PM EST. If you got your order in before this time, according to the mint's call center, you should be in line to receive your order.''[/QUOTE]
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