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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2406744, member: 1892&quot;]This isn&#039;t like some big show coming to town where you hire in a bunch of extra manpower for the night. You either have the bandwidth and computing capacity, or you don&#039;t, and if you only need that capacity once or twice a year there is absolutely no business reason to maintain (it ain&#039;t cheap) that capacity the other 363 days. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the proof is in the pudding - they managed to sell out rather quickly. They obviously had enough capacity to do the job. That&#039;s what I find so amusing - everybody carping about not getting their orders, failing to avail themselves of fat profits on the secondary market....the Mint managed exactly what they&#039;d planned. They don&#039;t know who bought the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the big guys only make the big bucks if you little guys are willing to pay them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say, though, I agree with softmentor that a &quot;2 per household&quot; limit would have prevented much of the angst. I almost have to wonder if they were factoring the limitations of their system into the purchase limit, knowing it was going to be a quick sellout.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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