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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2212154, member: 27832&quot;]I don&#039;t think it&#039;s the website, I think it&#039;s the sales policy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember how bad things were on the website before the recent upgrade, and how much more smoothly the sales went after the upgrade? It <i>was</i> a big improvement.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the Mint is just working very hard to find a sale policy (mintage levels, household limits) that will maximize the spike of demand when a sale starts, overwhelming even a well-engineered site.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming that most demand is from bulk buyers (and those who hope to flip to the bulk buyers), a household limit of 2 instead of 5 just means there will be 2.5 times as many individual order attempts, meaning 2.5 times the load. If they&#039;d limited it to one per household, it would&#039;ve been even worse. If they&#039;d limited it to 10 or 50, the site would&#039;ve been much more responsive (but the sellout would&#039;ve happened a bit faster).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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