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<p>[QUOTE="Virginian, post: 4993403, member: 27579"]Is the mint a private company or an organ of our elected government? That kind of changes things for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do business with a number of other web based operations of government agencies, and they are almost uniformly a disaster at one level or another, with antequated technology, etc. I literally never see these sorts of things when I do business with a private company that actually has to compete in the marketplace with others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not at ALL convinced it would cost one red cent more for the US mint to have competently constructed a website compared to whatever it cost to produce the piece of garbage that they have now. It would just have required someone competent in charge of a government agency who actually gave a fig enough to have some pride in what they're doing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I know this is a profit operation . . . then maybe they should just privatize the whole thing. It was a disgrace on a ton of different levels. No excuse. If you run your business this way . . . good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Virginian, post: 4993403, member: 27579"]Is the mint a private company or an organ of our elected government? That kind of changes things for me. I do business with a number of other web based operations of government agencies, and they are almost uniformly a disaster at one level or another, with antequated technology, etc. I literally never see these sorts of things when I do business with a private company that actually has to compete in the marketplace with others. I'm not at ALL convinced it would cost one red cent more for the US mint to have competently constructed a website compared to whatever it cost to produce the piece of garbage that they have now. It would just have required someone competent in charge of a government agency who actually gave a fig enough to have some pride in what they're doing. Yes, I know this is a profit operation . . . then maybe they should just privatize the whole thing. It was a disgrace on a ton of different levels. No excuse. If you run your business this way . . . good luck.[/QUOTE]
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