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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 4997893, member: 77639&quot;]Likely the Mint will eventually institute a lottery system for limited issues.&nbsp; Folks could sign-in and get a lottery number assigned starting 2 weeks prior to sale deadline … one number per account.&nbsp; Then have one week after the deadline to check if they are a winner and buy.&nbsp; Then for any coins remaining due to failure to buy, go down list and allow new winners a week to buy.&nbsp; Continue until sold out.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, dealers and flippers would still use hired surrogates to have more lottery numbers under their control.&nbsp; However, the likelihood of success of a particular surrogate would be less.&nbsp; The reason is the surrogates now probably get tips to maximize chance of success in the frenzy or may be provided with a script bot.&nbsp; With the right internet setup and a good script bot, the dealer’s IT folks can do it all … the surrogate does not have to get into the frenzy.&nbsp; They just have to receive the coin, if a winner, and turn it over to the dealer.&nbsp; With a lottery, the tips and bots lose their advantages.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, ordinary folks like me would have relatives or friends get lottery numbers.&nbsp; Beyond limiting number coins sold to an address, not much can be done about that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would guess the senior IT folks at the Mint aren’t too happy with the way it’s done now.&nbsp; Servers become more vulnerable to hacking if they are overloaded or crash.&nbsp; It may have happened already, which is another explanation as to why some dealers and eBay sellers have multiple coins to sell soon after the closing date.&nbsp; Although contracting surrogates and using script bots is more likely and legal.&nbsp; Some of the Mint’s web services are contracted to outsiders, including Facebook, so maybe the Mint IT dept doesn’t worry about it much.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who like conspiracies:&nbsp;&nbsp; If their servers did get hacked for the purpose of allowing sales to whomever the hackers chose and the Mint discovered it, would they have much motivation to make it public?&nbsp; After all, the Mint got its money.&nbsp; Why go public with something embarrassing?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone know if any members of Congress are collectors?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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