pablitto83

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Thanks. Got other coins as well, 20 francs, ducats, krugerrands..So scale and calliper would be most versatility for the price 

#195
 

I wonder how the price will behave on Monday/next week/s  after Powell's message they need to go back to printers, and just after 2 banks in US has shut down. Should we see again an avalanche of liquidations, where all assets will be on sell to save the leveraged positions, or like crypto - stay calm  
In theory, we should not go down much. The value from before 2020 and now is about the same if you take into account the inflation. Can also check GSR to see how it behave to safe gold.
I just done a small buy, and probably will continue in coming days/weeks. If it crash, it may a be a short time to buy before it rocket back up.
Ok, silver is more industrial metal, but when we need to stop using normal cars, then silver will be in need. At least, when the countries will invest trillions in infrastructure to send power, and double the power plants so we could charge our electric vehicles..

I plan to visit my family this year, and I know I can buy there a bit cheaper. Not planning to get a wholesale amount, but just something for my stack. If I travel by car, I would not be bother, just packed up loose coins between pants in the bags, normally car is packed up when travel 1k miles.. But after travel to Poland twice by car, with kids, I rather pay twice the price for the plane..

Probably going off top, but how safe is Bullion Vault? it is a private company. If for any reason it will get bust, are their customers are still owners of their assets? We are talking about holding PM there for decades, if it comes to treating it as pension pot. I love every silver and hold coin I have (not many, far too little 😅), but with vat and high premium on silver, it's something that tells me something is  not righ.. I know there are private vaults/ duty free storages, where you can inspect yourself.. But minimum to store are big bars.. That's a different level

I don't invest in PM to.make money  on it. I am aware that it normally don't bring profit, it is a store of value. So I buy from time to time some bullion (silver and gold). With no intention to sell any soon. More like my retirement pot, or a tiny top up. I try to diversify money I manage to earn. Not much, as I don't call myself a wealthy person. But keeping money in a cupboard is purely a loss, it's better just to spend it on holidays than save...
Btw, just looking for options apart of having phisicall bullion at home. Inoniw there is a bulliob vault, some dealers offer to keep PM in vaults in Switzerland.. It is not a paper PM, but how safe it  is? Some ETFs are backed by physical metal, and are threated as safe. Just looking to safely locate an equivalent of tub of silver every few months , buying at lowest premium..  That will be safe for years and easy to sell

I'd like to ask about your predictions about siler price if we get another bunch of restrictions, and economy will be scared. I checked the charts of silver price during 2020. When lockdowns started, silver plummet (I believe it was a liquidation on futures trading, and demand of having cash in uncertain time). After a short while, prices gone up a lot (stimuluses). Gold in other hand didn't marked such a dip. 
Just try to predict what can happen with precision metas pices when government  will start messing ip again.

Thanks guys. I did invested a bit in crypto, and looking to hedge some profit in physical metal. Apart I love they look, it is something you can have in hand, and will not "evaporate". Looking to do so in near future

Thanks guys. I did invested a bit in crypto, and looking to hedge some profit in physical metal. Apart I love they look, it is something you can have in hand, and will not "evaporate". Looking to do so in near future

Hope it stays this low for a couple more weeks.

As a fellow novice my advice is pay the monthly forum membership fee and you get to see the sales posts on here 3 days earlier than non paying members.
The best deals are on the sales pages here. 

That's the other thing..I Lived in Midlands for a coulpe of years, and narrow roads are really bad there. Check Cornwall.. Single tracks all the way.. I would say in poland roads are wide enough. Quality is another thing.. Companies making them cut the cost (eg layer on motorway should be 1m, and is 0,1m..), not paying subcontractors (one of biggest scams when thousands of subcontractors bankrupted when building a motorways, as Big companies got contracts, subcontracted to other companies, they subcontracted them again and again, with the bottom people who physically made it, not been paid.. And best part - They had to pay taxes from the invoices they issued, and never got money! So the business owners not only been owed money to their staff and suppliers, but to Revenue as well!
Another biggest scam of a decade - Ambergold. Company which supposed invest money in phisical gold, been a pyramid. hundred of thousand of ppl lost everything.. And guess who been in their Board - son of Prime Minister - Donad Tusk, who has been after 2 times a President of UE . That is just not even a peak of the corruption..
In UK noone is really bother about politics, in Poland people discuss that all the time. Most argues are on politic ground.
But it is still a beautiful country, and I can't wait when borders will reopen and I could see my family.
At the moment my business is focused on tourism, so I do really feel the hit, no need to VAT hassle for me, they are killing my small business other way..

Well, I am Polish. But after 10yrs in UK, and being back justba few times since, I can tell you that I would not find myself back there.. s**** wages ( tell someone u need £2k for a family of 5 for normal living, without new car, holidays abroad and any fancy stuff), and you will be calle ld a buffon. Free of tax amount not changed for many years- around £600 a year. Minimum wage - around £320 a MONTH. Yeah, cost of living is lver, but not as much. I'd say electronic, clothing is more expensive. Food a bit cheaper. Vat-23% ( with new rules about that, research about split vat). Mentality- if you are smiling- uou have to be either drunk, on drugs or mental health issue. If you ask in UK - how are you- it's always-fine. In Poland- even you just won on lottery-it's always s****. Mum works in a hospital for years. Her wage is around £400a month.. To get an £1000 a month - net- you need to be a hood manager in good business. People always have to find arounds the lw to make living, and each next government is just rising taxes, make more control etc. Aww, look at bureaucracy. I know as a fact that ppl working in government administration (hmrc, and all other bunch of bandits) not going to work to WORK.  When you try to sort out anything, you are the servant, who disturb the peace of drinking coffee and chit chat with froends, so you are treated as a pest.. Been in that position, I have friends wjo works with them - imagine working in administration and for the whole day do a 1  a4 page copy, and not bother about tons of documents.. Corruption never ended after 89', just got worst- politicians have a monopol on bribery, stealing, and all wrong doing you can imagine.And when it comes public, nothing happens.. It is why I am not planning to go back there..

I am in same thoughts. It feels like we are at III World War.  The Governments has spread a terror of fear, dividing people, so they will fight each other, not seeing that they sold their freedom for pennies.. Live in Scotland now. Been in Bannockurn, at visitor centre. And there is written in stone. What happened with this proud nation? There is a reason why Scotland is known to be the most socialist/communist country in Europe now.. where the First Minister has to instruct People how to use cutlery at the table.. People stopped thinking, as TV is doing that for them. In Poland we remember well the Martial Law were in force (1981-83), with the only difference that there are no tanks on the streets, but Police, and no secret agents spying but Covidians calling cops and informing Services (go back to 40's and see how similar it is to Ghettos where Nazis separated Jews from others, marked them, and not allowed to leave those part of cities). This is a new War, where a weapon is all media controlled by Governments (amount of censorship and blocking YT and websites of those who tell the truth is growing). Looks like the idea is to kill all small business, destroy middle class, and make only big Corpo and Government jobs. Noone inform about more protest in France, what people of Denmark has fought  - for days banging in pots in front of parliament, to call back a bill allowing Government to vaccine by force anyone. Noone mention about thousand of lorry drivers, who been helped by common people and abandoned by services (sorry, police was there to pacify those who has been locked with no water, food, fuel or toilet for many days)..
To save my mental health, I do a low information diet - I not watch TV (for years now), and only read online article that in my interest.
But back to the topic, looks like it is more like a time to focus more on the gold than silver now for a longer time investment.
Sorry for OFF Top
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I am in same thoughts. It feels like we are at III World War.  The Governments has spread a terror of fear, dividing people, so they will fight each other, not seeing that they sold their freedom for pennies.. Live in Scotland now. Been in Bannockurn, at visitor centre. And there is written in stone. What happened with this proud nation? There is a reason why Scotland is known to be the most socialist/communist country in Europe now.. where the First Minister has to instruct People how to use cutlery at the table.. People stopped thinking, as TV is doing that for them. In Poland we remember well the Martial Law were in force (1981-83), with the only difference that there are no tanks on the streets, but Police, and no secret agents spying but Covidians calling cops and informing Services (go back to 40's and see how similar it is to Ghettos where Nazis separated Jews from others, marked them, and not allowed to leave those part of cities). This is a new War, where a weapon is all media controlled by Governments (amount of censorship and blocking YT and websites of those who tell the truth is growing). Looks like the idea is to kill all small business, destroy middle class, and make only big Corpo and Government jobs. Noone inform about more protest in France, what people of Denmark has fought  - for days banging in pots in front of parliament, to call back a bill allowing Government to vaccine by force anyone. Noone mention about thousand of lorry drivers, who been helped by common people and abandoned by services (sorry, police was there to pacify those who has been locked with no water, food, fuel or toilet for many days)..
To save my mental health, I do a low information diet - I not watch TV (for years now), and only read online article that in my interest.
But back to the topic, looks like it is more like a time to focus more on the gold than silver now for a longer time investment.
Sorry for OFF Top
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Its definitely the start of the end, but it could take another 100 or more years to be fully the end.
The US has a very strong military so they can extend themselves as a power in a number of ways, for the most part it will be to the great suffering of the American people and those of any nation aligned with them. 
Sadly the UK will be even more of a vassal state moving forwards, as part of Americas empire (along with Australia and Canada).
Each country has long since shown that by fostering discontent among societal groups by allowing identity politics and the far left to hold the narrative they can increase their own power and build the modern day technological-totalitarian empire.
The far left are just the useful idiots they are using to usher it in. As we saw this year, they are masters of propaganda and manipulation of the mass consciousness. Those who are awake and dissent will be crushed.
It makes sense strategically if you can think like a mad man who doesn’t care about the population. In a civilisation decline you need much more control because social unrest will be high.
You need people to be psychologically damaged and manipulated so they remain disoriented and blind to their real threat, the massive threat, which is the government! 
We will see all the narratives coalesce eventually, the surveillance state, the biomedical interventions and restrictions, the hate speech laws that ban or outright criminalise those who oppose. Basically its all building to, well, totalitarianism in a modern form.
My advice is terrible to be honest, as it is to leave the UK. Its a floating prison. If you can’t then do your best to not be caught up in the mental warfare of the government, the maddened crowds, the in-fighting between different social groups, the forced ‘safety’ measures...and try to be as independent as you can financially and practically.
Apologies for my pessimism, ill end with a Ho! Ho! Ho! and a 😘

Also, businesses in the UK that are not VAT registered will be uncompetitive to European customers. 
Prior to 31st December a business that was NOT Vat registered charged no Vat on products to customers in the EU. 
From 1st January those customers will be charged VAT when the goods are imported into their country. 
It gets worse because if, like my business you were not paying VAT on the raw materials before, you will be forced to procure raw materials with VAT on them now. This means passing on the costs to the customers and price increases. 
So, following through, previously I may have charged £35/oz for my silver. Now I would look to increase this to account for the higher material cost incurred with VAT, so lets call it £40/oz. Then the EU customer is charged VAT on the import - so they are doubly taxed and hit - not to mention the handling fee of €15 that couriers charge to calculate your VAT on import.
Bottom line, it makes small businesses that were underneath the VAT threshold a minimum of 20% less competitive with their prices at a time when we should be doing everything possible to keep our British businesses and entrepreneurs competitive. 
The ignoring of VAT harmonisation has truly made this Brexit deal next to useless and it sickens me to hear politicians herald it as "free trade" when it is nothing but free trade. 
Not to mention all the added bureaucracy and admin work that businesses will have to endure. 
Sorry, that turned into more of a ranty post than intended. 
Its sh it

England is so done, all thats left are the few remaining crumbs of a democracy.
Now it becomes something new. It will be great if your a neo marxist environmentalist who doesn’t want to work and hates free speech, free movement and logic....but for the rest of Britain it will be a survaillance state dystopia in which all aspects of life are dictated by the state. 2021 post brexit and under the guise of covid it will be ramped up big style, there is no escape now and I think history will increasingly come see that Brexit served not to keep others out but to trap Brits in during this phase of history.