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<p>[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 7887170, member: 246"]There is a near zero chance that the mint site was hacked to allow more coins purchased than the household limit allows. Even if an order could be placed for more than allowed, it would be caught during billing and shipping. What is likely is that a person uses different addresses or possibly address variations to make multiple orders within the household limit. </p><p><br /></p><p>There have been complaints about bots, but no proof that they are in widespread use. The Mint uses Cloudflare that supposedly is able to weed out a significant percentage of bots. It's most likely dealers (and collectors) telling their friends to buy the low mintage coins and promising them a set profit. When the V75 coins were for sale, there were ads on Craigslist looking for people to try and buy them. Any time there is something that can be flipped for a profit there are non-collectors buying them for a quick profit. Homeless people were hired by dealers to wait in line to buy the gold JFK coins when they came out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 7887170, member: 246"]There is a near zero chance that the mint site was hacked to allow more coins purchased than the household limit allows. Even if an order could be placed for more than allowed, it would be caught during billing and shipping. What is likely is that a person uses different addresses or possibly address variations to make multiple orders within the household limit. There have been complaints about bots, but no proof that they are in widespread use. The Mint uses Cloudflare that supposedly is able to weed out a significant percentage of bots. It's most likely dealers (and collectors) telling their friends to buy the low mintage coins and promising them a set profit. When the V75 coins were for sale, there were ads on Craigslist looking for people to try and buy them. Any time there is something that can be flipped for a profit there are non-collectors buying them for a quick profit. Homeless people were hired by dealers to wait in line to buy the gold JFK coins when they came out.[/QUOTE]
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