I'd love to post a thought every day. But I just can't think that hard ;) However, I am working to get a copy of the July GCC coin blueprint up here so ya'll can see it. It's done, and going to mint. Of course it is, right? It's July after all.

And June coins are in the mail, so you should be seeing them soon.

If getting all our stuff together for GW7 wasn't keeping us busy enough (come by and see us in the vendor area!) we decided the site was due for a refresh. As "promised" back in December (I think) we have bumped the pricing a little. Uncle Sam keeps wanting more for postage. Back when the first subscribers were young subscribers - the cost of mailing out a single coin was a lot less and so was the cost of metal, and they walked uphill both ways, etc. In any case, we've had the same pricing since 2005 when we launched, and this update bumps the pricing about 15%.

So what's the good news? A cool new website for one.

We have introduced annual subscriptions. These will be a full 12 months and offer higher discounts for that commitment.

An improved Gallery if you want to tour there. Also, we've eliminated any kind of international shipping bump to Canadian customers since we evaluated the shipping costs and they are only about $.20 higher per shipment on average than USA shipments - so we'll eat that. Unfortunately the other international subscribers will have to pay a bit more to cover postage for their subs since we found that on average the cost was $3.25 a shipment higher than the USA shipments. ~$1.50 higher for 1 coin, $2.50 higher for 2 coins and almost $4 higher for 3 coins. So to address this difference and to keep our shipping rates attractive, we settled on $1 per coin extra for non USA/Canada subscriptions - we hope everyone finds this fair.

This website update is only 1 step in a few new club services we intend to bring online in 2009. We're hoping to bring a few new interesting club benefits online this year and begin to build on that "Members Only" status you enjoy!

Please enjoy the new website and tell all your friends to stop by and check us out. And speaking of friends - subscribing with a couple of friends is a great way to bring the cost of club membership down. When you subscribe for 12 months at 3 coins per month, you save 16% (in the USA and Canada) over the cost of the 3 month, 1 coin rate!

Well, at first we were told a delivery date of 3/27 - close, but hey... we still had a chance at getting these out in March.  3/27 came and went, we were told 4/1.  But that was just an April fool's joke.  Unfortunatley the delivery to us from the factory is now estimated as 4/16.