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<p>[QUOTE="Soda Ant, post: 7599407, member: 13460"]I'm done with the Mint. It's bad enough that they create artificial scarcity by limiting the production of what's certain to be extremely popular items to low numbers, then they compound it by setting the per user limits high so some people get multiple copies while others get nothing. Compound that with their incredibly crappy web server and the result is a headache that I just don't need.</p><p><br /></p><p>A fairer method would be to accept orders over a period of a week or two, and then randomly draw from the list of orders until the limit is reached. To make it even more fair, each customer would get only one coin unless the total limit isn't reached when the end of the list is reached, and then (and only then) would repeat orders be fulfilled. This would make the whole process fair to people who don't happen to have good Internet connections, or live in an area where the local Cloudflare server is particularly crappy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll go back to collecting <i>real </i>Morgans and not some modern imitation. No more ASEs for me either--I must have been nuts to start collecting bullion coins in the first place...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Soda Ant, post: 7599407, member: 13460"]I'm done with the Mint. It's bad enough that they create artificial scarcity by limiting the production of what's certain to be extremely popular items to low numbers, then they compound it by setting the per user limits high so some people get multiple copies while others get nothing. Compound that with their incredibly crappy web server and the result is a headache that I just don't need. A fairer method would be to accept orders over a period of a week or two, and then randomly draw from the list of orders until the limit is reached. To make it even more fair, each customer would get only one coin unless the total limit isn't reached when the end of the list is reached, and then (and only then) would repeat orders be fulfilled. This would make the whole process fair to people who don't happen to have good Internet connections, or live in an area where the local Cloudflare server is particularly crappy. I'll go back to collecting [I]real [/I]Morgans and not some modern imitation. No more ASEs for me either--I must have been nuts to start collecting bullion coins in the first place...[/QUOTE]
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