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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 5004842, member: 13650"]Well, that's assuming flippers are a market that the mint should even be worried about catering to. In the end the mint may lose money since people are wasting far more on their products than they should have to, thereby limiting peoples disposable income for possible future mint purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p> If they pick a round number for every special issue they intended to make, say 500k mintage and people put orders in until a certain date, say it got to 105k and then that was the cut off, that wouldn't put the mint out. They could be prepared to make 500k now only have to make 105k. Even if they had to do it six months in advance so they knew what they had to order and produce. They'd sell the maximum amount, for more and everybody could get what they want. I get it. They picked 1945 and 75,000 for the 75th anniversary on that one. Ok fine. </p><p><br /></p><p> All I can say is this hours long refresh game with odds like trying to get through on a live national radio program sucks. Real collectors are getting blocked out by kids living in moms basement, youtubers and people's bored friends at work, trying to turn a quick profit and take advantage of people. There has to be a better way to serve the collecting community. Without the collecting community, flippers who couldn't care less about this stuff, have nobody to flip to. I want to put a reservation in. I don't and won't wait in line at the restaurant for an hour.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 5004842, member: 13650"]Well, that's assuming flippers are a market that the mint should even be worried about catering to. In the end the mint may lose money since people are wasting far more on their products than they should have to, thereby limiting peoples disposable income for possible future mint purchases. If they pick a round number for every special issue they intended to make, say 500k mintage and people put orders in until a certain date, say it got to 105k and then that was the cut off, that wouldn't put the mint out. They could be prepared to make 500k now only have to make 105k. Even if they had to do it six months in advance so they knew what they had to order and produce. They'd sell the maximum amount, for more and everybody could get what they want. I get it. They picked 1945 and 75,000 for the 75th anniversary on that one. Ok fine. All I can say is this hours long refresh game with odds like trying to get through on a live national radio program sucks. Real collectors are getting blocked out by kids living in moms basement, youtubers and people's bored friends at work, trying to turn a quick profit and take advantage of people. There has to be a better way to serve the collecting community. Without the collecting community, flippers who couldn't care less about this stuff, have nobody to flip to. I want to put a reservation in. I don't and won't wait in line at the restaurant for an hour.[/QUOTE]
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