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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1290727, member: 29751&quot;]I don&#039;t quite get your logic.&nbsp; Are you suggesting that systems should be able to handle normal traffic, not abnormal traffic?&nbsp; If that&#039;s the case, let me make 2 analogies as to how this makes no sense to me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose you pay for cable that includes an extra add-on for a sporting channel.&nbsp; Let&#039;s say that channel works every day of the year except for the day the Super Bowl is airing, because there is &quot;just too much demand&quot; on the system that day.&nbsp; Is that excusable?</p><p><br /></p><p>Another more serious analogy.&nbsp; Suppose you work for the <span style="color: #ff0000">Corps</span> of Engineers.&nbsp; You are building a new dam.&nbsp; It will hold back the flood except for the most extreme of cases.&nbsp; You don&#039;t build the dam for the &quot;average&quot; flood risk, you build it for the maximum expectation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long story short, it&#039;s bad business.&nbsp; The percentage of the days in a year that a system is down is not a relevant statistic.&nbsp; The relevant statistic is what percentage of your yearly income you are putting in jeopardy by having insufficient systems.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of the mint, they obviously don&#039;t care about customer service or their marketing image.&nbsp; The same money-hungry prospectors will continue to buy their overpriced bullion and try to flip a profit on eBay or elsewhere.&nbsp; Anyway, I hope this all fizzles soon...it&#039;s a distraction from collecting coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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