ChrisSilver

View this giveaway *Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items
This is a FREE prize draw to bring awareness of The Silver Forum and to promote The Silver Forum, please let anyone who is interested in precious metals know about this draw to help spread the word of The Silver Forum. The larger the forum grows the more great and larger prize draws we can do, as well as more items being available in the trade sections and more knowledge that is shared between helpful members  this year we have planned large promotional prize draws every 3 months or so, with other prize draws planned in-between. 

At the time of writing TSF has over 20,500 registered members, of which over 600 are Premium Members, over 66,000 forum topics, and over 870,000 forum posts. With around 20,000 new posts per month it is estimated by December 2023 or possibly January 2024, we could have over 1 million forum posts. TSF is the largest independent English speaking precious metals forum in the world, with members across many different countries and continents. If you aren't a TSF member already you can register a FREE account here. 

Since the last promotional draw in April 2023 (around 3 months ago) TSF has gained over 1000 new member registrations, 3000 new forum topics, over 50,000 new forum posts, and over 100 new Premium Members. 

We are planning several other large promotional Prize Draws throughout 2023 so stick around. 

*Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items. One lucky winner will win all prizes. 

Please see timer for Prize Draw end date. 

FREE worldwide shipping to the winner!
This draw is open to all forum member groups. Including all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators  (excluding the Administrator, he never wins anything 😄) If you would like to upgrade to Premium Membership and support The Silver Forum to grow, please click here to upgrade your membership. Many thanks to those who already have Premium Membership and an extra special thank you to those who choose a Platinum level Premium Membership which greatly helps TSF.

Just press the button to take a ticket to enter. You will first need to be signed in, if you do not have an account yet you can register for a FREE account here: https://thesilverforum.com/register/

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The next pictures show the items in this draw. Brand new from APMEX, in hand and ready to dispatch to the winner:

 





Photos above are for illustrations purposes and some photos show both sides of the same item. The exact items in this prize draw which will be won by one lucky winner are:

1x 1g PAMP Lady Fortuna Gold Bar
1x 2023 PCGS MS70 Firststrike ASE
1x 2oz 9 Fine Mint cast round
1x 1oz Buffalo Found 
The prize(s) for this promotional draw have been purchased by The Silver Forum and are dispatched by @Lr103 on behalf of TSF. After the winner(s) has/have been selected they will have 30 days to provide their shipping details to @Lr103 should they not make contact with their shipping details within this time, the prize draw may be put up again and a new winner selected. 1 entry per person. Creating multiple accounts to abuse this limit will result in the permanent ban of your account and all future accounts associated with you, The Silver Forum has a strict policy in regards to multiple accounts. The winner needs to be a Member in good standing both at the time of taking a ticket, and the time the winner is drawn. The winner is responsible for any applicable import taxes or duties, this information is also shown in the terms and conditions that you need to accept when taking a ticket. Item is dispatched from the USA. 

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Existing members please sign in to your existing account and take a ticket. 

This draw is FREE to enter all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators (excludes Administrator). Those who would like to support TSF to grow can purchase Premium Membership and to help support The Silver Forum, many thanks to those who support TSF with a paid Premium membership. Not only does your paid membership go a long way towards the maintenance costs of the forum, a portion of the membership goes directly into paid advertising and marketing, meaning the more members we have the even bigger prize draws we can do  To help support The silver Forum to grow and to get all of the other great benefits listed in each package;

Please click here to view our Premium Membership packages and to buy to support The Silver Forum
Submitter ChrisSilver Expiration Date 30 days and 6 hours Submitted 09/07/23 Category Prize Draws open to ALL member groups  

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

Please take care to only post genuine interest within a sales topic. Otherwise PM sellers directly.
You can find information on posting in sales threads here:
@Upsidedown, your last post has been hidden as it contained personal details. Please keep these to PM with individuals you are trading with. 
 
 

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

Unsolicited posts in a trade topic / commenting in someone else’s trade topic / clear and accurate trade listings.


Foreword: We have decided to remove the feature for Platinum Premium Members to be able to automatically hide comments in their own trade topics. This benefit was originally intended to allow Platinum Premium Members to quickly hide unsolicited comments without the need to report it to the Moderation team. However, it unfortunately allowed for some posts to be hidden when they should not have been hidden (from a Moderation perspective.) e.g. genuine questions asked by prospective buyers trying to clarify ambiguous information in a listing. It also appeared to some Members that TSF was allowing some members to buy “moderation privileges” and to then break the forum rule, this was not the case and please be assured that the forum rules apply to all member groups. Though of course we would like to give an extra thank you to those who decide to support TSF with one of the the highest packages, Platinum and Platinum PLUS Premium Membership.

Further to this we have also added the disclaimer that unsolicited comments in a members trade topic will be removed/hidden at the discretion of the Moderation team. We wish to help sellers keep their trade topics tidy and to help their sales but at the same time ask for a transparent and open marketplace. If a member asks a question publicly in your trade topic it is beneficial for your sale to answer it publicly. Please see the section further down in regards to posts about prices. We also ask that only genuinely interested parties to a sale comment publicly in a trade listing. 

Sellers, please be very accurate, unambiguous and clear in the details of your listing. This is to maintain a fair and transparent marketplace where trust and honourability are the pillars of the forum and the forum’s trade section. 

Please be very careful when mentioning the weights of items or any reference to spot prices. Note that if your item is not pure silver or pure gold, please be careful with indicating the weights of the item as to not mislead a buyer into assuming the pure gold content weight is higher than it actually is. 

Please also be very careful making statements that you may not be able to prove. Such as, but not limited to, “the lowest price you will find this item anywhere” “cheapest on the forum” “lower than any dealer” “you won’t loose on this one” “guaranteed investment” “rare” etc, such statements may not be factually correct and although you may believe them to be correct at the time of writing may indeed turn out to be incorrect or false later on. We deem such statements to be misleading and these types of statements also do more harm then good to your sales.


Etiquette to follow if you see inaccurate or misleading information in someone's sales topic. 

1. Please use the report feature to report any listings that you believe to be inaccurate or misleading. If it is determined by the moderation team to be misleading or inaccurate we will contact the seller and politely ask them to clarify / edit their listing.

Listings you see without prices

Listings must contain an asking price, if you see a listing where the seller has omitted this information we kindly ask you not to post in the seller's trade listing. Please instead use the report feature, a member of the Moderation team will then kindly ask that member to post an asking price as per forum rules. Though we understand that you may wish to help, the best way to help is to use the report feature to do this. It is the Moderation team's role to enforce any forums rules. 



Unsolicited posts in a trade topic:

If you are not a prospective member to a trade please do not post in someone's sales topics.
These sorts of comments add no value to the sale and you are discouraging sellers to list items. If an item is priced too high and doesn't sell, the seller will understand that the item was priced too high. There is no need to comment in their sales topic. 
You may think an item is priced too high, this is the sellers choice to choose their asking price, please do not make unwanted posts in the seller's sales topic. It is up to the buyer to decide if the item is being sold at a fair price (they can even make a separate question in the other forum sections to ask what the fair price of such an item would be if they have concerns)
Note that buyers are encouraged to do their research before buying, please check various online dealers and marketplaces so you are aware of fair market prices. Members trade at their own risk and it is their responsibility to do their due diligence on the item and the seller etc. A seller may also be willing to take offers on their item via PM, this is down to the seller.

For clarification please do not unsolicited posts posts such as "this other dealer/member here is selling this for a lower price" etc in someone's listing and please follow the forum etiquette. 
Also, if you notice any mistakes in someone's listing, or something appears wrong out of common courtesy private message the seller rather than comment in the topic itself allowing the topic author to rectify the problem. If you don't want to private message a member please use the report feature. Thank you for your cooperation.
 
To sellers: Please report unwanted or related posts in your sales topics and they can be removed. Posts will be removed/hidden at the discretion of the Moderation team.

These rules / guidelines may be updated in the future. Our aim is to maintain a fair and honest marketplace for all and to not discourage sellers from listing, the trade section is an important part of the forum and maintaining the success of the forum. Thank you to everyone who buys and sellers on the forum's trade section. We appreciate you following the guidelines above and following forum etiquette.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

Please make sure you have read all of the information in my initial post for the full terms and conditions  
For your entry to be valid please purchase Premium Membership now form the forum store: https://www.thesilverforum.com/store/category/2-premium-membership/
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Please make sure you have read all of the information in my initial post for the full terms and conditions  
For your entry to be valid please purchase Premium Membership now form the forum store: https://www.thesilverforum.com/store/category/2-premium-membership/
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With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.