I experienced the same slow response on the US Mint site (as expected) and I was using three computers trying to order a Proof coin. I finally was successful at 12:40pm. I received an email confirmation, and days later logged into the mint site with my personal ID and Password to verify (for my peace of mind) that my order was indeed there. It was, then I noticed my order had a date/time stamp of Aug 30th, 12:40am. What! AM! Now I don’t know if my order will get kicked out by some mint computer program finding any orders placed before 12 Noon and disposing/canceling my order. It should have read 12:40pm!!! The IT people didn’t set the time stamp correctly upon posting the Jefferson coin on the mint site at Noon that day. Ughhh…!
My experience with the bad order date/time stamp was just like yours.
I figured it was probably fine in the “real” order database or that everyone would have the same problem and get corrected in another way, but it edged up my concern.
Fortunately, I went back to track the order a few days later and I noticed the phrase, “your order request is in process”. It also had the expected shipping dates.
[...] That was somewhat disappointing given there were only 20,000 of the proof and 20,000 of the uncirculated Jefferson Liberty Spouse gold coins made and many experienced a difficult and backlogged ordering process. [...]
September 6th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
I experienced the same slow response on the US Mint site (as expected) and I was using three computers trying to order a Proof coin. I finally was successful at 12:40pm. I received an email confirmation, and days later logged into the mint site with my personal ID and Password to verify (for my peace of mind) that my order was indeed there. It was, then I noticed my order had a date/time stamp of Aug 30th, 12:40am. What! AM! Now I don’t know if my order will get kicked out by some mint computer program finding any orders placed before 12 Noon and disposing/canceling my order. It should have read 12:40pm!!! The IT people didn’t set the time stamp correctly upon posting the Jefferson coin on the mint site at Noon that day. Ughhh…!
September 17th, 2007 at 10:46 am
My experience with the bad order date/time stamp was just like yours.
I figured it was probably fine in the “real” order database or that everyone would have the same problem and get corrected in another way, but it edged up my concern.
Fortunately, I went back to track the order a few days later and I noticed the phrase, “your order request is in process”. It also had the expected shipping dates.
It looks like we’re good!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:31 pm
[...] That was somewhat disappointing given there were only 20,000 of the proof and 20,000 of the uncirculated Jefferson Liberty Spouse gold coins made and many experienced a difficult and backlogged ordering process. [...]