TutoredSoup232

31 minutes ago, TutoredSoup232 said:

Could I have 4 please? 

4 Brits* sorry 

Could I have 4 please? 

Could I have 2 please?

Looking for 1/10 KCIII or 1/4 Coronation gold coin if anyone has one for sale? 
 

thanks 

Hi are all 5 still available? 
 

33 minutes ago, Leonmarsh said:

Doesn't everyone worry thst they will just spot and go milky as with all RM silver be hard to shift for some very expensive silver 

This is whats stopping me from buying the proofs. Milky overpriced coins. I'd rather save up and buy the gold bullion version 

My first kangaroo, ½oz 2021 Perth mint. Loving the shine on this coin!

1 hour ago, Liam84 said:

That's a surprising amount of surface area for a gram!

Yeah they hammer it really thin. From the side it looks less than .5mm

On 07/04/2021 at 21:42, Stuntman said:

I'm glad I checked my investment wallet at the weekend because I returned my 10 oz silver bar after talking to their customer services team and was expecting the RM to just send me a replacement.  But they had just credited the money back to my investment wallet although they did NOT credit me the cost of paying for special delivery to return the bar.  Cheeky sods.

Anyway, I ordered another one on Monday night.  Hasn't been despatched yet.  

On the positive side, the silver price had gone down since I ordered and the bar was about £14 cheaper, so still about £7 cheaper after factoring in the cost of returning the first one.  

On the negative side - let's see what it actually looks like when it turns up... 🙃

next time use their free royal mail labels to return products 👌

1 minute ago, theylivewesleep27 said:

All Of the Una bars are now sold out on the RM site. I thought they would of all sold out a lot quicker to be honest. Now we can all sit back and wait for the prices to go higher.

I saw earlier, I was almost tempted to but a second 10oz but I stuck to my guns and bought a sovereign instead. Trying not to give RM any more of my money 

15 hours ago, SidS said:

Originally banknotes were promissory notes. The £1 note being a credit note for a gold coin. The US notes were a little more blunt in that they stated exactly what the note could be changed for, 5 gold dollars, or 1 dollar in silver coin etc.

With regards to old white British notes of this era, they would be cancelled when the money was paid out, usually by having holes put through the note or cutting a section out.

I always thought it odd that many banknotes of the era were denominated in pounds (great for swapping into silver coinage) but not so great for swapping into guineas, where you'd have to pay a shilling coin with your note to get the gold coin.

That said some notes were denominated in guineas.

Edited to add:

From memory, I do believe the first notes issued with values lower than £5 came into circulation in the 1790s as an emergency measure, due to the various French wars that Britain was involved in, and that convertibility into gold was suspended temporarily and remained so until the 1820s or so, some years after Napoleon was defeated. I'm happy to be corrected though on precise dates.

From memory I think you're correct. The £1 note was in circulation and very easy to forge. There was a back and forth as to whether or not people should be punished for forging the note if they made it that easy. I believe they also applied the same penalty to those found in possession of the note as those who were forgers. 

I really wish they had better quality control, JC did a great job on these bars and their sloppiness has really let them down. You got incredibly lucky theylivewesleep27 I bought the 10oz and 1oz silver and gold and every single one had to be returned, 4 returns before I finally got something decent

also they may approve an exchange and then just put the money back into your investment wallet and never tell you about it either. 

Apologies I've just realised you're not in the UK, not sure what you could do in all honesty besides leaving them a very negative review on trustpilot, that usually gets their attention 

25 minutes ago, Bape85 said:

Hey guys i have the same problem with shipment 

All 05 x 10oz silver una and lion bars came with the packaging opened and torned and many dents . 

100 oz britannia bar came with alot of scratches on the back that cant seem to be removed. 

 

I have contacted rm since last tuesday but haven't got a reply . Do you guys just sent it back on your own shipping cost or wait for rm for a reply first ? 

you can download a free Royal Mail returns label here https://www.royalmail.com/track-my-return/create/3413

If the bars are still in stock and you can afford to buy them again I would encourage you to do that before returning. I do this and effectively issue my own replacements and request my refund instead. They can take up to a week to respond to emails and sometimeish on the phone. I know the stock levels were low so by the time you get a concrete answer and they receive the bars and issue a replacement they might sell out. Good luck getting a replacement after this, they've made it very clear they will not mint more and will send yours to scrap then potentially lie about their ability to replace. I had this issue with them, ordered on 01 March and only as of the last week is my issue now resolved. 

Fastest response you will probably get will be if you leave them a negative review on Trustpilot and even then it will be Jane who contacts you asking for your details and still takes another 48-120 hours to get someone on the phone to you. If you really want the bars, I wouldn't risk waiting in all honesty 

2 minutes ago, theylivewesleep27 said:

Well i know a lot of people are sending bars back due to quality issues, The RM claim they melt them down and then make a replacement to send out but i really doubt that this happens. I think they just send the returned items out to new buyers as not everyone is as fussy. Someone on here said they returned an item like 3 times and each one had to be sent back. 

I spoke to the infamous "Jane" from trustpilot. She confirmed they're being sent to scrap. They're definitely not minting replacements and half the time not even bothering to send out replacements they still have in stock, just refunding and moving on. They do seem to enjoy promising replacements for out of stock products but they're not sending them out. 

It would make sense to knock up replacements, I refuse to believe they don't have standard sized blanks lying around they couldn't utilise quickly to make a replacement. I'm also refusing to believe they're disposing of dies immediately either. 

I'd say they've probably produced far less as some of us returned faulty bars and they were scrapped. No mention of any plans to mint more to hit the maximum mintage 

They started off with significantly less of those listed though, there's only 1200 and something of those worldwide whereas they topped up the 10oz stock

Some people are very opposed to paying the VAT on the 10oz

18 hours ago, dicker said:

Welcome to the forum.....always good to introduce yourself first.

Best

Dicker

Really? I snuck in through the back door then 🤣

1 minute ago, silversky said:

Let us know how it goes please

spoke too soon, I have tried to find out what UPS  delivery charges will be for handling items through customs. Appears they're engaging in some shady practices of charging 25% of the items values for non-vat gold coins 

thanks again! well it's looking so far like it might still be cheaper for me to order from certain sites and certain things from Europe even with the VAT and shipping/handling charges 

Just now, silversky said:

£33

I'm not sure what the fee will be to be honest.  Previously the courier would charge the fee on small value items because unless customs wanted to open them they would make the assessment themselves based on the paperwork and collect the money.  Royal mail traditionally charged £8 for this on top of the duty/vat etc.  But above £135 I don't know if they are still charging just the £8 or how it's worked out.  Fedex charges a little more from memory but they deliver it straight away with their bill attached.  You then pay online rather than having to wait a week for the post office to notify you that it's arrived and go in person to make payment.

thanks! I'll check DHL's fees 

Can someone help me understand this please? So if I order silver coins from EU lets say £150 worth and the shipping is £15, will I pay £30 VAT or £33 VAT. Also will there be extra charges from the post office/DHL etc. for handling this for me? 

I've always found HMRC's regs confusing and it's been a long time since I've ordered internationally 

Also if it's gold do I ever pay any charges? 

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Has anyone actually tried ordering under the new regulations?