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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1963571, member: 26302"]Yeah, but that is my problem with all of this stuff Jeff. It isn't about having the money to buy, its about the competition to be in line. Think of all of the collectors who went to the ANA show wanting to buy one of these, but because of all of the hired standins hired by dealers to abuse the system they can't. Think about all of the long term ASE collectors who wanted a 2011 set but couldn't compete with the hundreds or thousands of people hired by dealers to phone in to buy sets not for themselves but for a dealer. That is what is hard to overcome, the people being paid to buy for someone else when that was simply never the intention of these systems the mint put in place to try to assure equal distribution. Honestly, the only method I can think for the mint to use, if they are not going to make people sign something swearing they are only buying for personal use, is to simply go to their mailing list of longtime customers and only offer an item, (one per customer), to them only. I do think the mint should make something unique, like an off metal cent set, and only offer it to people who have bought direct from the mint for a few years. They need to reward their long time customers. For full disclosure, I would not consider myself eligible for such an offer, so I am not saying this simply out of personal self interest.[/QUOTE]