US Mint site just blocked me!!

It’s just luck and trying over and over. There’s no secret other than having a lot of people trying for you. Many people sat at the computer trying for an hour to get the silver.

 

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I tried for over an hour and a half. When I finally got the chance to put it in my bag it was sold out.

 

Just curious as to what causes the lock out?

I actually had a gold in my cart but got locked out at the check out page.

Was it because I had several tabs open? Because I hit the F5 refresh when nothing was happening? Or constantly hitting the Opps refresh?

Any help would be greatly appreciated for the next time.

Thx

 

i was able to get one but such a headache

 

In for a penny, in for a pound.........I might do the medal. I don't think I'll have to put up with the hijinks I endured earlier today.

 

Some PTSD fodder for you all to enjoy

 

Very true, but you don't to the trouble and expense of building a site capable of very high volume when you know that equipment and capability is going to go unused 99+% of the time.

 

Completely agree, been saying it for a long time now. It's frustrating especially since the only do 1 to two winners a year usually, but it would be a huge waste to build it out when they probably get like 1/5th of their volume in 30 minutes each year

 

Just got this email,


but, nope, not available .... again

 

the reminder is a day late and a dollar short always.

The Mint updates quantities and opens up sales daily at 7 AM EST as an automatic function, to sell remaining available stock.

The notice is generated and sent out some time after that happens.
By the time you get the notice, they are already gone for the day, I've never got a notice that was less than a half hour after it's been opened up for sales. Better luck tomorrow.

 

I'm curious as to the age of the computer/network equipment at the mint. Given the large numbers of products they sell and the costs of their products, there should be enough left in the coffers to update their system; or at least plan to.

 

They are the only government department that pulls in a profit every year.

 

We've had these after the fact in the past.
I think the idea was they were from cancelled orders etc, and later ones were from returned orders.

I've also had the notifications the day of release.

 

I had repeated fails, but after literally several dozen tries I would get a little further every once-in-a-while. FINALLY went through. Same thing happened to my son. My grandson was blocked, as many of you were.

Steve

 

What a disaster the US Mint website is a joke. I got to step three to verify and confirm my purchase and then NOTHING. I clicked the refresh button as their site timed out with the stupid display of the page can not be reached (or search the WAY BACK Machine). CloudFlare blocked me for hitting the refresh button and when I did get a response it was to prove that I am a human. By the time I was able to get into my account again, I had one item in my cart with a button to complete my purchase but in the cart was the message so many have received We sorry, but ….

They did however ship me my subscription for the Tallgrass Quarter 3-Coin set, which will now be my last subscription as I have made these all inactive.

Among all this mess I did get a survey about the mint’s website. For which I responded that they need to hire some Junior High school students to build a real website with enough infrastructure to serve the customers.

I get a kick-out-of all the EBay listings. Especially the one with 24 sold or another that has only 6 left.

Give me a break.

 

I got an notification e-mail this morning (9am) that the product was back in stock but when I went to the site (a half hour after receiving it) the coin was sold out. Anyone who didn't get one of these should try and monitor the mint web site as some of the orders place yesterday will be rejected by the mint for one reason or another....

 

Me too!

 

Like everybody else, I got the email saying the V75 Privy ASE was available. Within seconds I was trying to log on to the Mint's site, but was blocked. I guess I'll just have to live without owning one of these.

 

I was blocked when I pressed the final button at checkout...I think they put the public on hold until the big spenders are in!

 

That used to be the case, but Cloud technologies (which can be approved for all sorts of government use) allow for rapid scaling up/down as need arises. The economy of sharing all the cloud provider's cycles and bandwidth (instead of having a finite number of boxes down in the cold room in the basement) makes that a great choice. (PS. I don't work for a Cloud company!)