bluffer

20 hours ago, Taikonaut said:

Ahh, RM realise they made too many and realise its becomming a potential flop and resort to plan B.

possibly, or, and this is my theory.  They should have put that on from the beginning so it matches the "regular" memorial range which ends on 31 Dec.

So more **** up than admittance of slow sales.

On 17/11/2022 at 11:38, kiskelo said:

I had the same issue when I brought the SOTD, credit card charge for cash purchase. It’s not RM, it’s down to the credit card company, they have changed their terms and conditions. I managed to get my charge cancelled but won’t be buying gold on CC again. 
 

give your CC company a ring and kick up a stink. 

finally managed to get through to tesco bank and got the charge reversed.  had a chat with the agent and they confirmed that at least for the bullion side, it is classed as currency so the same as buying foreign currency, shares, but and this is the weird bit, she confirmed Bleyers are classed as a philately business!!  So even though you can buy exactly the same product from both, one business you will get stung on extra fees and the other not when using their credit card.

Wonder if thats why Chards dont take credit cards?  Cant be arsed dealing with folk stung with fees phoning them up?

5 hours ago, kiskelo said:

I had the same issue when I brought the SOTD, credit card charge for cash purchase. It’s not RM, it’s down to the credit card company, they have changed their terms and conditions. I managed to get my charge cancelled but won’t be buying gold on CC again. 
 

give your CC company a ring and kick up a stink. 

trying to ( once i found a phone number online as they dont put the general customer service nbr on the statement anymore. ) and i am not sure but i think it said the call would be answered within 90 min!!!!!  but they havent repeated any time after the initial mention, just that they REALLY wasnt to speak to me and I am moving forward in the queue.  :sigh:  but gave up after 15 min waiting.  every little doesnt help in this case.

but then why when buying from silver trader, bbp, bleyer etc or even silver proof circulating coins from RM have they never charged me before?    I would hazard a guess it will be something to do with RM putting bullion into a separate product category.

19 hours ago, Deus said:

Was that investment account or commemorative?

it was a couple of 1oz'ers ( a 23 brit and a king arthur ) so bullion side which is actually the first time I have bought on that side from them and why I ended up buying from someone else for the sov.  

On 15/11/2022 at 12:14, bluffer said:

hummed and hawed and then took the plunge with my first 3 set.  due to the query of whether it would be classed as a cash advance and be charged by the credit card company, i bought it from bbp with free post   whilst not quite in cold beans and water for the next 2 months, i think that will be the last purchase of the year for me.  ( famous last words! )

 

the one nagging feeling at the back of my mind is of course, is they have is described as pre order, but they have confirmed the payment has been made with delivery in january.  So hopefully their order levels are big enough for me to get it.  I not that RM still have the 3 set in stock.

 

 

Does the 2 set come in a box?  Got to be honest, I dont think its worth the extra £300 or so compared to buying them separately.

got my credit card statement in today and the silver i got from mint was just inside the cut off - and they have charged my a cash transation fee for it🤬 3.99%!  so just as well I didnt buy from RM as that fee would have wiped out the rewards on the card itself and the topcashback cashback!

Dont know if it would be worthwhile making a sticky post of cards with no fees and those with fees to avoid?

hummed and hawed and then took the plunge with my first 3 set.  due to the query of whether it would be classed as a cash advance and be charged by the credit card company, i bought it from bbp with free post   whilst not quite in cold beans and water for the next 2 months, i think that will be the last purchase of the year for me.  ( famous last words! )

the one nagging feeling at the back of my mind is of course, is they have is described as pre order, but they have confirmed the payment has been made with delivery in january.  So hopefully their order levels are big enough for me to get it.  I not that RM still have the 3 set in stock.

Does the 2 set come in a box?  Got to be honest, I dont think its worth the extra £300 or so compared to buying them separately.

1 hour ago, harrygill111 said:

@bluffer where did you get this code? 

email from royal mint.  used it for the memorial 50p and a couple of 1oz'ers before the announcement of this set so does work.

20 minutes ago, SheepStacker said:

Charging for delivery now?

PST133. for free postage, no min order, til 20/11.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284992748809?hash=item425ae43d09:g:Le8AAOSwGcZjPyDk&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsM2InXu%2FKllyT%2FvUbX%2FOlC%2Fh%2FVVQvywX6AGMBKZ5m46%2BbjjFKJZhPLHEni1gbEmOAMcElnVyw3BFDl%2BQcdFboFXc66GcyVFYFy5bn%2FhSFf9aFo0n2HyZJOMrvrcSN4n6RoL2fTFwkQ6NFgeVwcJBbeBmsDn%2BQ4g%2Fh2drMUPmxMbaLfEnUzMN28cyaC%2FpJ6pEqSFQt9lrVjvqugQddc7hnCrp13XdllCMUxbDeqPPqh61|tkp%3ABk9SR57YoJ-OYQ

£55 on ebay buy it now from this seller.  might be a bit of toning or a bad reflection.  but yeah, as others have said cheaper is out there.  just call mulder and scully

On 01/11/2022 at 20:24, paulmerton said:

It's not that common, especially for newer ones. How much are they charging over the £7.50 it would have cost as part of the tour?

Most seem to be sold by locals who go there every day, pay for the coins without bothering to go on the tour, and then stick them on eBay. I guess it is a handy option if you can't easily get there and want one, but you are only really paying for the packaging at the end of the day. If you didn't actually strike it yourself, there's nothing particularly special about the coin itself and it would work out cheaper to buy the same striking standard in the regular Royal Mint bunc packaging for £11; or if it's only the coin you're after then you can get it for less than a fiver from a few places. Or if you don't mind a few bumps and scratches, there'll be circulating versions coming out in our change next month and I'll be hoping to get a few of those!

i thought you had to go on the tour to get the coin, no?  I didnt see any on display for sale in the shop when i went.

On 02/11/2022 at 16:16, GoldStatue said:

This guy is selling 22 of those SYO memorial 50p coins and they were only released the other day:-

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/boselectacoins147

That's Del Boy Trotter levels of flipping 😀

 

if its the same guy, he is a welsh youtuber who does coin hunts for £2 and 50p's which is where he pesumably gets a lot of his stock.  if the ebay location is right, he is only 15 miles away from the mint so will pop along with some friends to buy the syo coins on a regular basis and buy the other stuff to sell.

no prices though 😬  

am i reading it right? the bullion sov will be a limit of  17500? or is that a proof?  its not really clear, it just says gold coins.

@LawrenceChard you getting any allocation in of the sov?

2 hours ago, SheepStacker said:

Royal Mint do state in their FAQs that they do not accept Credit card, but I accidentally put my Credit card details in once for an order instead of my Debit card, and they took the payment just fine. Didn't get cancelled.

that doesnt make sense as they plainly do accept payment by credit card as shown by this thread and various users.  So basically BAU for the mint then.  issue contradictory information and wing it!

my bullion coins have already been dispatched and are with Royal Mail.  They were due to be delivered between 10.26 and 12.26, but guess what? They werent and the mail tracking web page is down.  Yeesh.

13 hours ago, BackyardBullion said:

So, cannot say I have experienced issues like this with orders not confirming.

I guess the lesson here is about patience for the RM system to catch up. 

As to charges on credit cards for cash - this is a pretty common thing for bullion and is down to the card provider and card holder to check rather than the Royal Mint to make customers aware. 

Some credit cards don't put this charge on, but most do so would be worth checking your T&C's.

If you are purchasing on a Credit Card for cashback then well worth just using one of the other types of cashback cards out there or sites like Honey or Topcashback

Topcashback is normally 1% for existing rm customers and 3% as a new customer but they must have a special on as its 2% and 5% at the moment.

Just ordered a couple of 1oz coins so will be interesting to see if my bank charge it as cash.  if so, I will give them a call to try and get it refunded as its the first time I have bought bullion off them. But then wont buy bullion from RM again. ( the circulating side have gone through as a normal transaction - even silver proofs ) But purchases from the likes of chards ( albeit a debit card ), BBP, bleyer have gone through without the charge, so why the difference?  It must be something at the RM side that is telling the card issuer that its "cash"

ouch.  such a shame on so many levels.  😒

1 the poor qc

2 any coin in that condition

3 your first proof

4 feel free to add your own

forgot to add the obvious.  no is the answer.

4 hours ago, CollectForFun said:

Just my 2 cents, don't do it. At most, go for some variability i.e. include 10 countries with best known bullion and then pick other less common ones that you like, but I don't see any sense in trying to collect every country just for the sake of it.

Also: Afghanistan, Andorra, Anguilla, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belarus, Benin, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso... (numista.com is your friend)

Not mentioned in your post but arguably you refer to 1oz .999 silver? Because there are also 1oz coins made of lesser purity silver. Also, if .999, do you want that "1oz .999 silver" is stated on the coin? Not all do so.

Idealy yeah 999. and err, given your user name, is that the advice you want to give? 😜

14 hours ago, stefffana said:

Islands and territories are probably more who are allowing another companies to issue 1oz silver coins using their names: Tuvalu, Saint Helena, Samoa, Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, are only few names who are now in my mind.

Also, I can not see Germany.

I will try to find more when I will have time.

Good luck with your hunt!🤗

whats the german one?  I has seen silver euros or stuff from the germania mint ( I would count them as rounds ) but nothing like a brit / philly etc

12 hours ago, Gordy said:

Scotland..... Sheckel

Palau... 

Cook Islands

err a scheckel 1oz coin?  think not.  anyhoo, everyone knows scoatlands currency,  the coin is a nikkla, with a lifetime gaurantee of no mud sticking to it, ever.

Hey folks

I found this on wiki and want to check if this is a definitive list of countries that issue 1oz coins thinking I might do a world collection.  I am not including rounds in this but not sure about territories yet.  I seem to remember seeing an Antartic Territory coin recently.   Any proper countries missing?

32 minutes ago, modofantasma said:

A different take 

 

cool stuff.   anyone know why they didnt go for a decimal pound instead of a decimal dollar?  Down to wanting to break away from the old country?

20 hours ago, James32 said:

Shouldn't St George be wearing Nike Air max in 2024?

is st george sufficiently gender fluid/neutral for 2024?

Should it be Sx George?  St Georg? Sx Georg? Will there be a campaign to crush the Uk's patriarchal sainthood system - Andrew, George, David, Patrick and replace them with St Nikkla, St Hermione ( thats a real one and double bonus, it would let RM do a Hogwarts special sovereign! ), St Diana of Wales, St Talloolah?

🤪

4 minutes ago, stefffana said:

Yep. It is genuine, a little overpriced.

There are lots of sterling silver coins gold plated.

true but "gold overlay"

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204128168474?hash=item2f86fcaa1a:g:IA4AAOSwMn1jHeIO&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoMSY4qg8LHASlLcyJbp8Ro8WOki6AcdUcol46N1un1z93LNqxH1C7q5gA6XLVM322URH1D7QZKYsmHnBLFdp18XHyA4XAbvZ3YBwvGDpHEwQEZBd4fO8h7AeyE%2FokcDTTX4h%2Fwd75bUGA6UnKNHknoIUJh1agfdhmN%2FH1OBB9SlbvujE7Ypqhnd9Y3ISS8TVtjlUda%2BZWdCmT8JGNeLun70%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5r37viDYQ

"Westminster 5oz 2002 Golden Jubilee silver proof gold overlay AB88"

Hmm.  silver proof gold overlay?

9 hours ago, Petra said:

Wrong shape!🤔😁

maybe thats the big announcement coming soon?  the new nic cad sovereign or the 50p sovereign or the .....

14 hours ago, Gordy said:

I'm not tied by contractual matters like Lawrence is so i'll tell you....

Its the Dianne Abbott £7.00 coin... it has a denomination of £7.00 and worth £0.11p ,,,, you get 857 of them per £ and 342 of them make A SHEKEL... 

She can count to potato....

How many potatoes in a chip though?  is it one less than last year?

6 hours ago, Mothballjim said:

Almost at 50 subscribers already. Thanks to everyone on here that has watched my videos & subscribed.

Very much appreciated, didn’t expect the channel to grow so quickly! 🙏🙏🙏

watched one of your vids last week - actually the beginners guide above.  my subscription charge is 1 silver brit / mth.

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