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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3124301, member: 66&quot;]1. Drop the price of rolls of coins to better compete with the secondary market. The average price is $15.00 a roll, many times with free shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why should the mint be trying to compete with the secondary market?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Eliminate the Cent, Nickel &amp; Native American Dollar from the silver proof sets and price accordingly. Duplication over the regular proof set is un-needed.</p><p><br /></p><p>This makes sense, but interest in the sets may decline since they are no longer really a full set of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Price the 5 ounce hockey pucks closer to spot with an appropriate profit. $156.95 is ridiculous.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Pucks they sell directly to collectors are NOT bullion pieces, they are considered collector coins and therefor have a higher mark up.&nbsp; This is like saying they should price the proof ASE&#039;s at just a little above spot.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Get rid of the 3 quarter sets at $9.95. Really? You would pay that much for three quarters when all you need to do is buy some Whitman holders at .99 cents each. Wasteful production time.</p><p><br /></p><p>No objection, never saw a reason for these anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Improve quality control. That would help us out here a whole lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quality control on what?&nbsp; The material they make for collectors already tends to get very high end grades when submitted.&nbsp; The coins made for circulation need only be good enough to fulfill their function.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Bring back real sculptors with really interesting designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Using sculptors instead of artists trained in two dimensional art would probably be a good idea.&nbsp; Even so the limitations of what they have to work with would still be difficult to overcome</p><p><br /></p><p>7. Offer free shipping all the time, say, with a $100.00 minimum order.</p><p><br /></p><p>No argument.</p><p><br /></p><p>8. Do a year end or next Jan. special on any items still languishing in the vaults, then melt the rest that do not sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also a good idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>9. Start selling regular Silver Eagles directly to the public, eliminating the middle man.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can understand why the Mint doesn&#039;t want that headache.&nbsp; If they did take it on I would suspect you would see prices of say five dollars an ounce over spot to cover the headaches.</p><p><br /></p><p>10. If not eliminating the Cent, Nickel &amp; Native American Dollar does not work, consider a silver edition of each for the silver set. Imagine the interest in such a new series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t be done without passing new legislation through Congress.&nbsp; The Mint doesn&#039;t have authorization to strike those coins in silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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