So let’s recap what happened yesterday. Sure enough, the site crashed at 9AM PST. You couldn’t refresh the coin page. Once you refreshed, you got this screen and were unsure if you should refresh your browser or click the button ‘refresh’ on the screen.
Once you were lucky enough to add the coin to your cart, your saved credit card wouldn’t load. Then when you tried to submit, your credit card info disappeared. Then if you submitted your order, you got a blank page or back to an empty cart. It was just madness!
I had predicted this would happen so I had 4 simultaneous screens on my monitor at work (Windows 10 lets you snap 4 programs to a monitor.) I had 4 more Chrome profiles in the taskbar ready to go as well. While most people were refreshing 1 screen, I was refreshing 4 screens. I noticed that the first screen wasn’t always the first screen to refresh. It was just random, so by me refreshing 4 screens, I had 3 more shots of the coin page loading than the 1 screen person (and definitely not on a phone with LTE.) With some fast and furious clicking and a lot of luck, I was able to snag 5 coins personally.
So you scored a coin
If you were able to score a coin and plan on selling the coin to me, read the instructions from yesterday’s post on what to do next. Basically, forward me the order confirmation, wait until you get the coin (DON’T OPEN THE BOX) and then mail it out to me. Fill out the form with your tracking info and your payment options. Once I receive it, I’ll remit payment. In addition, I plan on launching something soon and you’ll get first access.
Success rate
I want to say the success rate for people in the game was about 66% to 75% just because we wanted it more. It seems the friends and family hit rate seemed to be 10%-25%.
Future coin deals
I don’t forsee another coin deal being this hot. The last palladium deal was pretty good, but this was off the charts demand. I heard from a coin dealer that the MINT had about 100K hits to the site when the coin dropped, overloading its servers. Also, there were A LOT more people in this game than just the miles and points community; this deal got the attraction of sneaker heads who are tired of the low margins in shoes that they have moved on to tickets and now coins. Word has it they’re going to make a bot that’ll work on the MINT web site in case another coin like this comes out again. I don’t have the heart to tell them it may not happen again for years. So expect further competition down the road for these types of deals.