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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 5138017, member: 73983&quot;]The solution to the problem is an obvious one.&nbsp; Pre-registration with a random lottery.&nbsp; When a new product is announced with a tight mintage limit, open up a pre-registration 2 weeks ahead of launch date.&nbsp; Then 2 days prior to launch, send an announcement to those who were randomly selected that they will be able to purchase that specific item on launch day.&nbsp; The selected individual will be given a Code that will need to be entered upon checkout.&nbsp; The code will only work if the name and shipping address match the pre-registration user information.&nbsp; The code will be active for two weeks after launch date.&nbsp; If the code is not used in that time, it will be deactivated and a new code created and randomly distributed to an individual that did not receive a code in the first round.&nbsp; You can also notify the US Mint that you have changed your mind about purchasing the item and surrender your code early.&nbsp; This would prevent the mad rush at 12:00 noon on launch day.&nbsp; Collectors will still get their equal chance to at purchasing the product as the flippers.&nbsp; Bots will be useless and won&#039;t bog down the site.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me this would be a much fairer way of distributing lower mintage high demand items.&nbsp; Even if they sped up the Mint&#039;s website to handle the higher traffic, it would only mean that the product would sell out faster, creating a greater rush.&nbsp; This system or something similar would eliminate that altogether.&nbsp; Household limits would be maintained and confirmation of those addresses would be able to be done prior to the distribution of the purchase codes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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