US Mint site super slow.

Well being an eager beaver, I ordered my 5 sets of LP2 Lincoln "Formative Years" pennies too bad the mint site turned into a traffic jam and it took 20 minutes to get through all the ordering and checkout screens. So who else experienced this? Also the pennies are back ordered the till May 29th. Glad to see the mint is consistent!

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Permalink Reply by Dave on May 14, 2009 at 12:48pm

Isn't the limit 6 for this issue? I still can't get through.... keeps erroring out.

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Permalink Reply by Jim on May 14, 2009 at 12:54pm

The limit is 5. I'm in the same boat. I managed to get one in my cart, but can't add 4 more, can't update my cart and can't checkout.

Dave said:

Isn't the limit 6 for this issue? I still can't get through.... keeps erroring out.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Marzovilla on May 14, 2009 at 12:57pm

I can't get through.

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Permalink Reply by Jim on May 14, 2009 at 1:26pm

Finally got through.

I just spent 1 hour and 8 minutes of my life - plus $50 bucks - on the purchase of $5 worth of pennies. I missed the first set though - I wasn't going to miss this one.

Backordered until 5/29 - hopefully they handle the shipping better than they did the UHR.

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Permalink Reply by CraigL on May 14, 2009 at 1:36pm

got my order in after a whole lot of pain, (10 minutes between screens). Very aggravating

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Permalink Reply by Gary on May 14, 2009 at 1:37pm

I was able to get my 5 sets ordered but it took me 20 minutes as well!!

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Permalink Reply by John W on May 14, 2009 at 1:39pm

I did it from work and it was surprisingly easy.....compared to UHR!!!
Now we'll see if they deliver the coins.

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Permalink Reply by Lyn on May 14, 2009 at 1:41pm

Wow I remember the site being mince slow while ordering the first gold spouse coins, but after 1 hour 22 minutes, I got my order in for 5 bucks worth of pennies. The site kept bombing out and I'm super frustrated. You'd think we were ordering GOLD.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Houser on May 14, 2009 at 2:02pm

45 minutes for me, but I was able to get 5 sets, I think.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Buskell on May 14, 2009 at 2:19pm

Took me 20 minutes, just finished

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Permalink Reply by ibognar on May 14, 2009 at 2:29pm

7 minutes, front to back. Getting better.

I guess it pays to be lackadaisical about these things.

Mark Buskell said:

Took me 20 minutes, just finished

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Permalink Reply by John W on May 14, 2009 at 2:52pm

The Mint is a government entity. When on govt time....one can do whatever one chooses to do with ones clock. They have their own time.
If they say it is is 12:11 AM then it is 12:11 AM....dammit.
:-)