The Westminster Collection Reviews

Im sorry Bex but I dont buy your argument - you take orders knowing that you are out of stock, on the premise that you will eventually get that stock in - this then can lead to long lead times and as a customer, can assure you that this is NOT preferable against the old fashioned way of if you are out of stock then I am dissappointed and the o'ness is on ME to reorder i.e. the customer has control over the process. This leads me onto why I put the comment about your company and the Royal Mint. Basically you are another trading arm of the Royal Mint, albeit as a seperate company - your monitoring of sales of any particular coin and "forward orders" are basically a yardstick for the Royal Mint who can then make a decision to Mint more or stop minting that particular coin - this then has an effect on the "value" of that coin going forward. Coin collecting used to be fun when you could unexpectedly find a rare coin in your change, also in the knowledge that once that coin has been minted there will be no more - your company has basically hi jacked that process has made this "hobby" more of a shopping experience, as have E Bay aswell in fairness to you.

You are totally missing the point of my argument and I dare say haven’t taken on board my observations about “coin collecting” in general. You are obviously standing by your guns, and I respect that but I still think that pre ordering is a bad practice, what if you can’t get anymore coins from the mint? What happens then? A very disappointed customer me thinks I realise that this is not really being taken on board your end, so let’s agree to disagree Regards P Webber