+markp99 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I've been waiting hopefully for the email notification that the remainder of these beautiful coins will be up for sale, but I've seen nothing, and the rapid fire discussions on this topic have have subsided. So, are they all gone? Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Hope not as I've also been watching for that email Quote Link to comment
+Hula Bum Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 They have not put them back up yet, so NO they are NOT sold out. An email will go out before they go up again. Quote Link to comment
+vtblackdog Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I'd still like to know how many were minted ... Does anyone know? Quote Link to comment
+SeabeckTribe Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 If there will be some left, where and who do I contact for getting this coin? Been out of the loop and missed this one. Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 If there will be some left, where and who do I contact for getting this coin? Been out of the loop and missed this one. Get on the mailing list at coinsandpins.com! Quote Link to comment
+Rattlingcrew Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Get on the mailing list at coinsandpins.com! I did that, but their site crashed and the gold coins have not been back. They are very nice, I would like to get some. Glen Quote Link to comment
+Hula Bum Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 It is appears to be fine now. Quote Link to comment
+saso792 Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 It is appears to be fine now. Fine? I don't see any gold compass rose coins for purchase when I go to the site. But I do see they are still listing new listings for the gold compass rose on eBay. Must admit the profit margin is much better there.....hmmm. Quote Link to comment
+Hula Bum Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 I must have misunderstood, you said their site crashed, I assumed you were talking about today. As for the coins on ebay, only 1 of the 9 is being sold by coinsandpins. They have many customers who only buy via ebay. The rest are being sold by your fellow collectors, some who were quick to complain about the original ones the candp put up there, ironic isn't it? While people sit and complain about the prices on ebay nobody seems to be realizing that you do NOT have to buy them from there or at all for that matter. They are NOT sold out and it is you, the consumer who is driving up prices, not the seller. Quote Link to comment
+saso792 Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 I must have misunderstood, you said their site crashed, I assumed you were talking about today. As for the coins on ebay, only 1 of the 9 is being sold by coinsandpins. They have many customers who only buy via ebay. The rest are being sold by your fellow collectors, some who were quick to complain about the original ones the candp put up there, ironic isn't it? While people sit and complain about the prices on ebay nobody seems to be realizing that you do NOT have to buy them from there or at all for that matter. They are NOT sold out and it is you, the consumer who is driving up prices, not the seller. "Me thinks someone protests too much." Quote Link to comment
+Hula Bum Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Me protesting? Ha, that's funny. I personally don't care if they are on ebay, or if they haven't been put back on the website. A. They aren't that imporant to me and B. We already have 2. I'm just tired of all the whining. Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Me protesting? Ha, that's funny. I personally don't care if they are on ebay, or if they haven't been put back on the website. A. They aren't that imporant to me and B. We already have 2. I'm just tired of all the whining. Sic 'em, HB!! Quote Link to comment
+saso792 Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Me protesting? Ha, that's funny. I personally don't care if they are on ebay, or if they haven't been put back on the website. A. They aren't that imporant to me and B. We already have 2. I'm just tired of all the whining. Quote Link to comment
Parrolet Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 As for the coins on ebay, only 1 of the 9 is being sold by coinsandpins. They have many customers who only buy via ebay. So they plan to only sell 9 of them on eBay? I count at least 6 sold so far by them theirselves on there. According to their email, the rest are suppose to sell on their website when the magic coin goes on sale, whenever that is. Quote Link to comment
+Hula Bum Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 No idea how many they are going to br put on ebay, but most if not all of what they have put up went up at the same time as the sale on the website went up, then that came crashing down, but the ones on ebay already had bids so those remained. Once again though, if people don't go into a bidding frenzy, they won't go for ridiculous prices. And if you don't want to pay those obscene prices, then wait and see if you can't get one when the mass of them goes on sale on the site. (not talking to you personally, just in general). Quote Link to comment
+Rubiconlwb Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I too have been anxiously awaiting the announcement of a second attempt at selling these coins. Why did they not just take pre-orders like the majority of coins sold lately do? It seems to relieve the frenzy when somebody thinks they will only be available for a short period of time and so flood the website and bring it to it's knees. What I would also like to know is what they are waiting for? If the site is back up, why not sell the remaining coins? I'm afraid they are creating an artificial frenzy by prolonging the next sale. I would like this coin a lot but I won't be spending an hour trying to get one ordered with 500 other people at the same time. If I experience problems, I'll just forget it. Quote Link to comment
+SlabyFam Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Still waiting also. Maybe soon we'll never know SlabyFam Quote Link to comment
+The Klever Boys Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 No idea how many they are going to br put on ebay, but most if not all of what they have put up went up at the same time as the sale on the website went up, then that came crashing down, but the ones on ebay already had bids so those remained. Once again though, if people don't go into a bidding frenzy, they won't go for ridiculous prices. I spotted one this morning for $41.50 (buy it now) and a further $11.50 to ship it to the UK Quote Link to comment
+DresselDragons Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 What I would also like to know is what they are waiting for? If the site is back up, why not sell the remaining coins? Everyone on their mailing list received an email explaning this (and what happened during the sale)...to answer your question, here is a quote from that email: "We will consolidate the sales of the remainder of the compass roses with the magic geocoin so we can take care of them at one time instead of spreading them out over the next month. It will also give us time to get these web bugs worked out. The people on our mailing list will get notified of the new sales date in a few weeks. There are no pre-reservations being taken for the compass rose or any of our other coins." Quote Link to comment
+forthferalz Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 gold compass rose to trade for workerofwood Quote Link to comment
+Team JSAM Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 (edited) Hello, I thank everyone for their patience. We are ready to finish the sales of the 2006 Gold Compass Rose Geocoin. While the website is not fully ready handle the kind of situation that happened last time, some upgrades have been made. We are selling these now instead of waiting any longer. A true fix to the website will take longer than anticipated, but we want to ensure we get the real upgrades done with quality rather than rush the process. We have listened to constructive suggestions made by some of our customers and decided that no other new coins will start selling at the same time of the Compass Rose coin. Keep in mind there are not very many Compass Rose coins left, so ordering will be difficult. Sales of the Gold Compass Rose will start on Wednesday 20 September 2006 at approximately between 8:30am and 9:30am Eastern Standard Time zone (EST), USA. If the website has problems again before the coins sell out, then we have a backup plan. We will provide a notice of the backup plan if there are any problems. If there are no problems with the website and they sell out, then the coin will no longer show on the ordering page. Please do not continuously refresh the web page before and/or during the ordering times or you may not get a chance to order the coins. Thank you, Aaron Weed www.CoinsAndPins.com Aaron Charles Promotions Edited September 19, 2006 by Team Jsam Quote Link to comment
+J10fly Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hello, I thank everyone for their patience. We are ready to finish the sales of the 2006 Gold Compass Rose Geocoin. While the website is not fully ready handle the kind of situation that happened last time, some upgrades have been made. We are selling these now instead of waiting any longer. A true fix to the website will take longer than anticipated, but we want to ensure we get the real upgrades done with quality rather than rush the process. We have listened to constructive suggestions made by some of our customers and decided that no other new coins will start selling at the same time of the Compass Rose coin. Keep in mind there are not very many Compass Rose coins left, so ordering will be difficult. Sales of the Gold Compass Rose will start on Wednesday 20 September 2006 at approximately between 8:30am and 9:30am Eastern Standard Time zone (EST), USA. If the website has problems again before the coins sell out, then we have a backup plan. We will provide a notice of the backup plan if there are any problems. If there are no problems with the website and they sell out, then the coin will no longer show on the ordering page. Please do not continuously refresh the web page before and/or during the ordering times or you may not get a chance to order the coins. Thank you, Aaron Weed www.CoinsAndPins.com Aaron Charles Promotions It figures I will be on an airplane between 8am and 10am eastern time. I have the worst luck. Jayman11 Quote Link to comment
+markp99 Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 It figures I will be on an airplane between 8am and 10am eastern time. I have the worst luck. Jayman11 I hear ya' Jayman, I'll be in an presentation at that hour. Oh, well. Not meant to be. Quote Link to comment
+J10fly Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 It figures I will be on an airplane between 8am and 10am eastern time. I have the worst luck. Jayman11 I hear ya' Jayman, I'll be in an presentation at that hour. Oh, well. Not meant to be. LOL! I'm not the only one than. Flight leaves at 8:00am lands at 9:50am. What are the chances. Hhahaha Jayman11 Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hello, I thank everyone for their patience. We are ready to finish the sales of the 2006 Gold Compass Rose Geocoin. While the website is not fully ready handle the kind of situation that happened last time, some upgrades have been made. We are selling these now instead of waiting any longer. A true fix to the website will take longer than anticipated, but we want to ensure we get the real upgrades done with quality rather than rush the process. We have listened to constructive suggestions made by some of our customers and decided that no other new coins will start selling at the same time of the Compass Rose coin. Keep in mind there are not very many Compass Rose coins left, so ordering will be difficult. Sales of the Gold Compass Rose will start on Wednesday 20 September 2006 at approximately between 8:30am and 9:30am Eastern Standard Time zone (EST), USA. If the website has problems again before the coins sell out, then we have a backup plan. We will provide a notice of the backup plan if there are any problems. If there are no problems with the website and they sell out, then the coin will no longer show on the ordering page. Please do not continuously refresh the web page before and/or during the ordering times or you may not get a chance to order the coins. Thank you, Aaron Weed www.CoinsAndPins.com Aaron Charles Promotions Everybody needs to note the highlighted section of the coinsandpins letter quoted above. They're not just asking you to not continually hit the Refresh button in order to reduce traffic. It is actually possible to refuse a user access to the site based on the frequency of loading of particular pages, and/or based on total number of loads during a single session. So, if at 8:30am you decide to just keep hitting Refresh until you get an order screen, you will probably be booted off their system. Just a word of advice! Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Please do not continuously refresh the web page before and/or during the ordering times or you may not get a chance to order the coins. Thank you, Aaron Weed www.CoinsAndPins.com Aaron Charles Promotions Everybody needs to note the highlighted section of the coinsandpins letter quoted above. They're not just asking you to not continually hit the Refresh button in order to reduce traffic. It is actually possible to refuse a user access to the site based on the frequency of loading of particular pages, and/or based on total number of loads during a single session. So, if at 8:30am you decide to just keep hitting Refresh until you get an order screen, you will probably be booted off their system. Just a word of advice! Not knowing too much about this I'm going to ask what may be a dumb question. If we can't refresh to see if they are on sale yet then how do we get the order screen? Are they just asking don't have several windows open at the same time on one computer? Or maybe don't have both the desktop and the laptop going at the same time? or how does this work? Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 No, it just means don't sit there with your finger on the Refresh button, pushing it every 5 seconds, till you get through. You can have 10 computers running with their site up, that's ok. If you don't get through right away, give it a couple of minutes, then try again. Quote Link to comment
ParentsofSAM Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 You can refresh but just not constantly. Like open the window at 8:30 and then refresh every 5-10 minutes or so instead of every 5-10 seconds. Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 (edited) Also, if you have more than one window open to their site, and keep hitting refresh on each window, that will also get you booted off quicker. Edited September 19, 2006 by MommyFinder Quote Link to comment
+markp99 Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 You can refresh but just not constantly. Like open the window at 8:30 and then refresh every 5-10 minutes or so instead of every 5-10 seconds. I'll be pressing the virtual F5 key in my mind as I sit through and then present at tomorrow's meeting without access to a computer. Bah! Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Also, if you have more than one window open to their site, and keep hitting refresh on each window, that will also get you booted off quicker. If someone then gets booted off will you be able to close the browser and open it again to go try to order or would you be SOOL from that IP address? From the way things went last time its seems that they might be sold out within a few minutes Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Well, I'm not the network guru, but my guess is they use the IP address. Also, they'll probably sell out fast. But what probably happened last time was a Denial Of Service attack. Basically, one big meanie hogged all their network resources, so no one else could get through. If that DOESN'T happen this time, then things will be slow because we'll all be out there at the same time, but not totally non-responsive like last time. So, everybody should have a chance to get through. It would be nice if they limited the number of coins per order, so nobody can hog 100 coins to sell on the e-place. Quote Link to comment
+chancerider Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 It would be nice if they limited the number of coins per order, so nobody can hog 100 coins to sell on the e-place. Totally agree... Quote Link to comment
ParentsofSAM Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Ok so who is ready and waiting........ Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Got my finger on the button ..... Quote Link to comment
+DresselDragons Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 I have to take Heather to school in 15 minutes...and won't be home until 9:15. How much you wanna bet they sell out in that time? LOL Quote Link to comment
ParentsofSAM Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Uh oh 1 resresh in and I get an error...... Quote Link to comment
+Big JohnP Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Same here. Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Yup, looks like this isn't going to happen today..... Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Well, error's gone, just waiting for the coin to arrive Quote Link to comment
+DresselDragons Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hmmm...no error here...but no coin either Quote Link to comment
+Big JohnP Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) Got them. Edited September 20, 2006 by Big JohnP Quote Link to comment
+MommyFinder Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Funny, we're all sitting here on pins and needles, and I bet the coin doesn't show up until 9:30am! Quote Link to comment
+DresselDragons Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 I don't hink that it has been there YET...remember there was a one hour window of when they become available. Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 The coin arrived and I put some in my basket THEN memory error. I refresh (a no-no)) and they say sold out! I check my basket and none there so what gives? Quote Link to comment
ParentsofSAM Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 I tried one more time after my post and got in for some and even had to take the add on of the silver Geocache America coin! I am !! Quote Link to comment
+DresselDragons Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) Darn...getting the error message now. Guess it is not to be for me...time to take Heather to school. If anyone snagged an extra and wants to trage for a copper DresselDragon coin, let me know.Trade made Edited September 20, 2006 by DresselDragons Quote Link to comment
+PennyPacker Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 The coin arrived and I put some in my basket THEN memory error. I refresh (a no-no)) and they say sold out! I check my basket and none there so what gives? Yep, same here. Got it in the basket, them ka-boom... error... sold out. Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 The coin arrived and I put some in my basket THEN memory error. I refresh (a no-no)) and they say sold out! I check my basket and none there so what gives? It just happened to me again! I put some in my basket and click but then nothing happens!!! And my basket says empty What a bummer!!!! Quote Link to comment
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