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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7311784, member: 105098&quot;]I think most people are counting on these, being sold at silver prices in the long run, I don&#039;t think anyone is legitimately going to pay $150 or more on the secondary market for this set, much less the $105, it&#039;s just unrealistic pricing from the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>HOWEVER, Mintage can be a factor here. I just know better than to think the mint is going to make 100K of them or less and call it a day. It&#039;s possible, it&#039;s just unlikely. it&#039;s still sitting on &quot;none&quot; for mintage, product or ordering limits. something to keep an eye on I suppose, but i&#039;d wait it out, maybe it doesn&#039;t sell well at all and they come back to reality and they reduce the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Checking cumulative sales figures, </p><p>they sold 283,433 silver proof sets until Week ending Oct. 11th the price increase took effect oct. 13th, and their Dec. 27th sales number for this set was 313,376.</p><p>29,943 were sold after the price increase, darn near 10% of the sales pre-increase.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah by end of week 41, pre-price increase, they sold 283,433 and average of 6913 sets per week. from week 42 until week 52, they averaged 2722 a week sold.</p><p>A pretty dramatic reduction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Really depends on how they supply the coins, if they do big run and it sit on sets in a warehouse, or if they do a small run and stick the overflow on back order and mint to need for the rest as the backorder hits certain benchmarks to make a run worth the set up, of course cancelling orders for people also.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something to watch on how they handle it. I think a possibility exists they stay the course and make production adjustments it winds up at around 150K or less sold by the end of the year. I just know the marketers are gonna want their sets to sell for exorbitant prices regardless of how much the mint charges.</p><p><br /></p><p>All speculation of course with some data that&#039;s available, for all I know silver is about to blast through the stratosphere and the dollar tank and the treasury has already told them &quot;sell that silver high!&quot;, I doubt that&#039;s the case, but who knows until ya know really, hindsight is 20/20, foresight is myopic and fallible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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