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On 07/05/2022 at 18:03, GoldDabbler said:

Painful. I’ve thrown comics out from the 60s costing pennies now selling for two grand on eBay. Who’d have thought that one day they’d be a global interlinked trade system ran from a home computer where people will buy any old tat.

I’m still waiting for my lottery predictions to come right. That probably wont happen either.

 

I beg to differ Stacking the trolley with chicken and cheap bog rolls while swinging by the cash desk to grab a sov on the way out is hard to beat. True, there’s low customer pamper care. There’s no free coffee, no fluffing, no velvet cloth to view your gold on, usually its casually dropped on a pile of invoices from a passing manager who’s taken one out of the safe but! … but  buying this way is a fair bit easier than making an extra trip out. More time, more hassle. Maybe Tesco will start selling gold too.  

no free coffee but there are cheap hot dogs

On 06/05/2022 at 13:22, LawrenceChard said:

Some of my questions were slightly rhetorical, as I would hope that a certain Blackpool Coin and Bullion dealer would "win" on all or most points.

I am sure you are right in buying when prices spike, and before they have updated their prices. Well done!

Of course, you probably miss out when prices dip, and they don't update.

😎

my local costco is 1.5 miles away.  so no post in your case or "free post" as you call it for other places.  So you deffo lose on that score. 

If its only one or two at a time, it can be well worth buying from them rather than online and you have the advantage of seeing it before you buy.  is it the most knowledgeable or luxourious place, hell no.  but then if its only bullion, then surely the best price is the thing, not the fripperies.  and by being a member of this forum, we would presumably have a sliver of knowledge about it before makign a purchase.

And, yeh as others have mentioned, the form is for them to keep inline with KYC.

silver 1oz sold out now

its not just PM.  I finally got my 2022 base metal proof set after 9 ish weeks despite it being in stock at the time of ordering.  open up the "book" and the acryllic case lid on one side was off.  not just loose but actually off. 

was tempted to take a photo of it and the ahem qc sticker on the carboard box and ask for comments.  but knew nothing would actually happen so didnt boter.

so are they copies of the genuine slabbed coins? Dont the qr code and barcode go back to the pcgs database? or does it go to a fake website or just not work at all?

10 minutes ago, Gordy said:

They are from Dewaulders and the Brit boxes are £29.99, you can get others such as Pandas, Maples, Krugs etc but they are £39.99 so i buy the brit ones.. Amazon also sell them for £29.99 too

They have brought out an 11 coin version for the QB's 2oz Bullion

thanks.  I saw that earlier but what threw me was the picture of the inside is completely different on the listing

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leuchtturm1917-Presentation-Silver-Britannia-Capsules/dp/B07TVC321X/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=coin+holder&m=A3MJLXPOJVJKVK&qid=1648048022&s=merchant-items&sr=1-2

But going down to the reviews, its got pictures of what appears to be "your" box. 

Got to get back to the village now, they are missing me.

On 06/03/2022 at 13:17, Gordy said:

Treasure Look at Sunday.... as of 6th March

Where did you get the large boxes for the Britannias and how much were they?  I am trying to work out whether to get something like that or a box that stores them upright ( with bigger capacity ) but of course downside is you cant see them.

a real newbie question here. 

Found out that there is a local one to me this weekend but probably nowhere near the size of those two.  When you say dealers are there to sell, I presume you mean haggle?  is there a best approach?  ie offer 20% under the asking price and then work your way to an agreement or just ask whats the best price and say yeah nor nay.....?

24 minutes ago, Stuntman said:

There are are 3 main ones I think - in London, Birmingham (Midland Coin Fair) and... Wakefield?  York?  Somewhere in Yorkshire, anyway.

 

Here is a link to the dates for the London and Midland Coin Fairs.  I've been to the Midland one a few times in the past, but this was 2015-2017.  Highly recommended though, if you want to see loads of rare and interesting coins and the dealers are there to sell.  Best advice is to get there early, quite often some of the dealers have packed up and left at least an hour before the official closing time.

https://www.coinfairs.co.uk/

On 16/03/2022 at 20:15, ATM said:

Understood 

 

If I buy say 1200 - EUR or GBP - then I get back 200 assuming 20% VAT

 

If I am traveling anyway then the cost of flights is irrelevant 

 

So I make 200 just by buying some Silver and reclaim the VAT

dont think the limit is anywhere near that. as for the chances of being stopped - who knows. but if you are over the limit they will get you to pay the tax on the TOTAL VALUE, not just what you are over.

now got the answer to a question I was about to ask - £95 for the 2022 britannia is steep but RM have been heading that way for a while now with pricing from gold to silver to coloured buncs to buncs. At a cheaper price I might consider it, but not

The RM web site is terrible jumping back and forth away from where you think you are going, groups that arent really that related etc.  Sure I saw a decription of Core Brittanias being listed on Chards.  What that means, who knows as it never gave a definition - just the title.  

i would agree with you. Half proof is confusing to both sides of the transaction and could lead to all sorts of hassle if both think they understand but understand something different.

6 hours ago, LawrenceChard said:

P.S. I just realised I could have answered your question much more quickly and easily by saying:

"Yes"

😎😎

 

 

 

woudnt have been as much fun though!

On 28/02/2022 at 16:49, MJCOIN said:

There is a page on the Silver Forum which compares prices across a number of dealers for the cheapest price.

See here - https://www.thesilverforum.com/compare/uk/ 

Also I sometimes use this site too: https://www.coincompare.co.uk/ 

snag for the first one is its only avalaible to members who pay for tier membership.   but second one looks ok at a glance albeit seems like a limited number of dealers.

as someone else mentioned, a lot of it is generational.  it depends when you grew up, 60s, 70s, even 80s to a large extent you saved until you had the money to buy something.

nowadays, i think a lot of it is down to twatter, instagrime and mawbook with folk showing off the latest cars, bags, fake tans, holidays, boob jobs etc and thats just the guys!  all these "inspiring influencers" who probably eat beans on toast in a bedsit but pretend otherwise are a bad example to the idiots who walk amongst us. Come my revolution, they will be first against the wall!

realisation that you were stupid spending £X on whatever, normally comes through age.  With this lot?  god knows, if or when it will happen.  if it does they will probably be onto the ****ing leeches that are claims companies to get stuff written off and compensation.

I used to work in a bank and the amount of 18-25 year olds spending more than half their wage to get the latest audi / bmw was stupid.  once they paid the car off each month, they didnt have any money to actually go anywwhere or lived off bank of mum and dad as well as the house of mum and dad. but the selfies with the shiny shiny in the background look cool! and of course, they never owned the car, it was done on fianance, hp or pcp.  biggest con of the lot pcp!  never own anything, just keep on paying out month and month after year and onto a shiny new one after 2/3 years.......   then when it all went tits up, it was the banks fault for lending them money!🙄  interest rates go up to 3-5% range, a lot of folk will suddenly be in real problems.

Now, i know not everyone is like that and there are times when people through no fault of there own hit hard times, illness, unemployment and so on, been there myself.  but there a hell of a lot of folk whose brain cell gets concussion bouncing around the skull on its own who just fritter money away and dont think 5 seconds ahead. cut out a starbucks (or similar) a day, everyday. saving is not hard to do

rant over

I went in Tuesday and bought at the same price which is odd. they havent changed it since?  If i had the money, I would go and buy more tonight. from a quick check, others are at the 355 mark and above.

wonder if putin has bought gold futures?

On 12/02/2022 at 10:05, Rat said:

Costco Glasgow price for a 2022 Sovereign this morning. About 4% over spot if my maths is correct. 

think they change the price once a day.  (was £344.99 on 30/1)

Was purely looking at the auction today to gain knowledge.  Shows i have a lot to learn i guess, ones i thought would go for £xxxx went for less than £500 and vice versa.

I know they have their own history for sold lots but is there a central site that gathers records from than one auction house.  ( i know that might be difficult due to each place wanting to keep its own data, but thought i would ask anyway )  Also do coin cabinet have a searchable historic record of sales or is it just  a case of trawling thought the individual records?

Ta

Short bio.  coin collector for a while but new to gold / silver ( not counting 50p / £2 coin silver and gold proofs.)

Please be gentle with me as I stumble around and ask stupid questions.