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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1965997, member: 66&quot;]Are you suggesting that the US Mint, when they are selling their special collector coins, is NOT a for profit company?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Would be a rather tacky thing to do when they have a whole section dedicated to other Mints from around the world and they are selling their products.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are you suggesting the ANA dictate to booth holders what they can and can not sell?</p><p><br /></p><p>And it could have been worse.&nbsp; Until the last few days they were planning for the line to form INSIDE the bourse floor, and to even announce at the last minute where the line should form at some random place on the floor.&nbsp; Could you see all those people crammed into the show floor milling about and then an announcement that &quot;The first 500 people to get to X can get tickets to buy a proof gold Kennedy</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They always have a boy scout coin collecting merit badge clinic on Saturday.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But if the Mint decides to go ahead and do one, how do you stop them?&nbsp; Break your contract with them and deny them their booth?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And potentially embroiled themselves in another lawsuit for breach of contract.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And you think that would stop them?&nbsp; I&#039;d sign it and then happily turn my coin over to the person paying me to stand in line.&nbsp; What&#039;s the mint going to do, track me down a year later and make me prove the coin is still in my collection?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry no new collectors allowed, you can only buy this exciting new coin if you have bought from us in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course all the buyers from those &quot;reprobates&quot; would be on the Mints customer database, so they could go ahead and pick up the coins and turn them over to their employers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, because if they had tried to enforce it this year they could potentially have been sued for breach of contract.&nbsp; But they CAN write it into the bourse contract for future shows.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Credentials to get into the show require filling out a card with a name and address and paying $6.&nbsp; Get a bunch of the cards fill them out with names and addresses, fake or real doesn&#039;t matter, and then pay the money.&nbsp; Receive the credentials.&nbsp; At many shows just a wristband that allows you access to the show floor.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The mints lawyers are very reluctant to touch any kind of a lottery.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the face of it this would seem to make the most sense, but the problem is you would need a lot more point of sale registers and you have a space problem.&nbsp; My understanding is they had two working registers (they did have three but one broke down) and it took 6 hours to ring up the sale of those 500 coins.&nbsp; That&#039;s 42 sales per register per hour or one sale every 80 seconds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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