Swindling? Monnaies de Paris

My wife wanted to give me the 2025 BU coins from France (MdP ttps://www.monnaiedeparis.fr), but didn't even manage to establish an account… So I tried, and managed, but their website is really set up by “idiots”, in France a date is dd/mm/yyyy, but their site is done in the proper way of sorting by date, namely yyyy/mm/dd. It just lost me 10 minutes to figure that out. After that, the site started to mix the information from the account of last yearset up by my wife  with my newly established account. After 1 hour I had MY clean account with MdP.

The value of the coins ordered (basically 3.88 Euro) plus the BU value 35.18 = 39.00 euro plus ON TOP of THAT the postage 6.90 makes it a XMas present of 45.90 for a basic value of 3.88. It does really pay of to sell coin sets!!!!

It's the last time I ask for an official set of coins I know I'll be able to find in the normal circulation after a certain time. 

I'm sorry France, but try to get hold of logically thinking people to create your applications AND make a business plan, which makes the selling price correct.

OK, France has a problem of overspending, so they have to earn money someway. This is one of them.

I don't have any experience with Monnaie de Paris, but I also have a feeling that many mint shops really want to make creating an account/ordering as difficult as possible. For instance, the INCM of Portugal offers the possibility to collect an order in their shops, but first you have to select where you want to collect it from the long list of countries (even though they only have branches in Portugal). Then, instead of normally selecting from the list of only three available shops, you have to find somewhere which postal code is used in Portugal  just for the system to show all these three shops as “closest to you based on your postal code.”

As for unnecessarily high postage and other fees, the Monnaie de Paris is definitely not the only one either and many times you end up paying many times more than was the original value of coins you ordered, sadly.

If you don't like the price don't buy. 

But obviously they are finding a receptive and appreciative market, can't fault them for that.

An older woman in my neighborhood, whose husband had passed away, went to empty his storage locker. 

Besides every book and magazine he had ever read, there were floor to ceiling cardboard boxes. She opened boxxes of US mint sets,  of Canadian mint sets,  of carribean mint sets, and quarter sets, and so on. Mint sets, and special commemorative packaged sets, all those mahogany stained wooden boxes from China, with the purple plush insets.  I know where she took them for disposal, I know she didn't get 25% of what he paid for them, but he treasured them to his dying day.