US Mint site just blocked me!!

I was able to get one in the bag, however, got bounced off too many times to count, trying to check out, then, "the product is unavailable". Nearly every refresh was met with a "your being limited" from the cell network.

Strange thing, I received another text message at 8:07am CST this morning, from the "U.S. Mint Alert: 20XF is now available". Immediately logged in and "the product is unavailable". Very infuriating to say the least.

If you could WIN for LOSING, I'd be in the lead....

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Agan I feel I need to reiterate. The mint sends the alert messages way late. If they have left over stock it becomes available at 7 am EST every day when they update the quantites. Some days there's nothing some days there's a lot, it depends on how many they get released from pending sales that didn't happen.

It will stay like that until they tag the site that it's sold out.

If you check after you get the alert, it's gone and been gone since 7:15 AM est or sooner.
A lot of people know this info already and are watching and waiting and refreshing as soon as the clock turns 7 am.

The mints done it this way for years now. 7am EST every day is when they update the inventory on the site and open up the items if there's anything left to sell that day.

 

John Burgess, posted: "I don't doubt you did have someone on the hook for $600."

Actually, the person put themselves on the hook.

"There's people preselling them on ebay for $1200-$1500 also and people buying them too. I have an opinion on this type of thing but I'll keep that to myself."

Why? I'd be interested in your opinion of this type of thing. I call it the free market because I believe in Capitalism and not in the other systems that have been tried and failed all over the world.

 

Without reading every post I had the same results. I tried to buy one just to see how far I would get. I was 99.9 percent sure I'd get no where on their site. Same thing last year. I started to try to get onto the mint's site about 7 minutes before the sale. It took me until 12:01 just to get in. Same as everyone else. I got the I'm not a robot thing. Which I really never understood it's purpose. Then I got blocked, error code and then on top of that I got band from the site multiple times. This has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever run into on line. It's like an auction that you can watch but can't bid in. Oh and top of everything else I was asked to do a survey. I gladly did the survey.

 

Beautiful

 

The United States Patent & Trademark Office does, too.

FCC used to . . . haven't checked in a while. Maybe the Bureau of Land Management, too, but I'd have to check on that.

 

I got the survey, too. I don't think they're going to do like the scores I gave them, or what I had to say in the comments.

 

I just got an email saying my ASE has shipped.
This is probably the fastest the mint has ever shipped anything to me.

 

I got blocked also. The mint is playing favorites, in my opinion.

 

I was on the mint site at 6:50 am EST with no problems this morning (day after sale). I started hitting refresh at 6:58 on a continuous basis. No lock outs, no oops messages, no Error 1051 (or whatever the code was). I kept repeatedly hitting refresh until 7:15. I must have refreshed several hundred times. No issues. However, no coin available for purchase either.

The mint continues to confound on a regular basis.
No survey either.

 

After trying time after time after time, and having one in my bag, I was finally able to check out! It took a total of one hour and 13 minutes, but I got one!

 

Was that yesterday, day of sale, or day after sale?

 

I gave up on the US Mint when they ran their last fiasco. I'll take my chances of finding on down the road at a decent price but if I don't I'm satisfied with not having one. My ASE collection stops at 2019. The Mint has just gone crazy with their pricing and trying to create and manipulate the rarity coin market. My money is better spent on a nice Morgan or Walking Liberty or some other treasure that is truely rare.

 

Which probably 99% of the time is just fine

No reason for them to for 10-20 minutes a year, and even if you could scale up and down why would they spend more for the same result?

It's kind of funny how upset everyone gets for missing out on the big money winners yet you never hear from the vast majority about a run of a mill product even in the same series. Everytime a desierbale product comes out all the same comments happen often by the same people and it's just the same cycle over and over.

Bottom line is if it's super easy to get and will lose value a lot lose interest, if it's hard to get and will gain value everyone wants it and people get mad for not getting it

 

For some that hits the nail on the head; they see an instant profit and don't like the fact that they weren't one of the lucky ones. But I do feel sorry for those who just want to add a coin to their set to keep it current and complete. That's one reason why I don't like these "limited" editions!

 

If the Mint were to be audited, I doubt there would be 75,000 receipts for these.

 

I honestly think that gets overplayed a lot on forums. If someone wants one of everything they also had to have the 95 W proof and we're 25 years later now from when that happened. There's several other coins along the way for the ASE where this shouldnt be a show stopper.

It's just human nature to want what is desired and be upset if you miss out. I missed on the gold it is what it is if this had and then of course a bunch of people mad because they missed a modern winner

 

The day after sales went up at 7:30 am EST as they have done in the past. Site locked up immediately. I managed to put a gold eagle in my cart, but was unable to complete checkout. It superficially remained available for about ~15 minutes before the status returned to unavailable. I kept trying to complete a checkout during that time despite knowing it was a futile effort. A few people at CU reported purchasing the silver eagle with relative ease during this time frame.

 

I don’t think so. From all the comments I’ve read, both here and CU, everyone that was able to pick one up was locked out or banned several times before finally being successful. I was locked or banned on 3 devices before finally completing a buy. I was locked out on my iMac using Safari. I switched to another browser (Firefox) on the same iMac and was successful.

 

Ohhhhh shot! My bad. This dude is right, it's 7:30 AM EST.
It was an auto correct typo. Sorry to everyone!