kimchi

I have one. Not really looking to sell at the moment and happy to hold, but you are always welcome to make me an offer if no-one else comes through

It's certainly not the prettiest of bars, and I absolutely understand the disappointment of receiving two bad condition items in your first purchase, even if you expected bullion (which they both are).
Metalor are desirable and always popular 1kg bars, I doubt the condition will make much difference at all to the price when and if you sell
That said, I've never seen a 'new' one like that, so depending on where you bought it from, if you feel like it no harm in phoning them up and saying it's not the 'new' or even 'as new' bar you were expecting based on their listing photo and description etc, maybe they'll give you a bit of credit or something. Otherwise I'd just accept it as having 'character'

He stated that the Beasts present in the Queen serie wouldn't be duplicated, yet, the only 2 released at present are Lion and Yale, which were present in the Queen's Beasts and deny the claim, whereas out of the 2 skipped one was the Panther of Seymour, which is unique to the Tudor serie; reality doesn't match the statement.
I didn't post it as information, I post because I am appalled by the inaccuracy offered by Royal Mint on the topic. In my opinion he has no idea what he is talking about and I wouldn't take him seriously, he is probably responding with something he half heard and mixed up. Wish they would just respond with something clear, at least I'd know what to budget for...

That’s awesome!!!!!  
 
 

Congratulations @dicker! 🥳 

I've been noticing the lack of people's attention span for years now, and all joking aside, I really did notice it when I first started to put out these long musical pieces.  That kind of stuff was what I grew up with in the 70s when one song could take up the entire side of an LP and lots of people loved it back then. I still love listening to longer epic pieces of music and am particularly partial in my old age to certain operas like The Magic Flute for example which is a three hour extravaganza in German with elements of colloquial Austrian dialect chucked in - a real challenge !   Nowadays if a song is longer than two minutes and if it contains any real instruments rather than a load of computer generated c**p and a robotic repetitious lyric line it's too complicated for most of the simpletons out there.
With regard to ticktock and instagram I'm afraid I've led a very sheltered life and have never once looked at them..😅  I don't regret it!

Why do you you think platforms like instagram, tick-tock, YouTube-shorts have been so popular, most people who use them need the 1000’s of hits of dopamine they get daily from these tiny rewards. 
 
try and have a conversation with someone under 30, ask them about themselves etc it’s a very short conversation.  The species is loosing the art of having real world social interactions. 
 
I still try and talk to people over the phone where I can instead of PM’s and emails as I find you learn more about the person you are communicating with. 

Same thing happened with decimalisation, or so I'm told.

Thats the idea, also to only give the population a 2 minute short term memory with constant "breaking news" and 1000's of  notifications, most people who live like this have almost zero mid-long term memory.  No one will ever question what happened the week before.  

Congratulations to @JoeBlack for his prediction of $23.10  1 oz will be heading your way.

£1589 are we in a dip yet @Paul 🤷‍♂️

Annoying electronic voice, yes.
 
At 7'30'' it shows a gold eagle with a tungsten slug inside.
I guess this one would fool the old Sigma easily - too thick gold casing. Certainly not microns..
 
 

No mate, it's absolutely right that there is no editing allowed, it would be impossible to follow and it's in the rules! I apologise once again for confusing things, I didn't read properly (and wasn't qualified anyway as we' haven't traded yet)!
It's a fantastic giveaway you're doing, good luck to all, and I look forward to trading with you myself in the future!

Sorry Kimchi. It would be difficult to keep on top of competition if people started editing. Being you are so gracious in your disqualification I  will take your entry into the bonus 1oz at $20.23.
Good luck. If you are 100% correct, you deserve the 1oz.

Quite right buddy, I took a third decimal place off because I thought $20.233 looked odd, sorry wasn't trying to cheat! I was just entering for the fun of it as I haven't traded with you yet so couldn't have won anyway
Good luck everyone!

Sell them, cash in on the premium and then buy standard bullion sovs 

UBS’s bid is 0.26 per share, where as CS is trading at 2.0 ish.  An 87percent discount to the last traded price on Friday evening.
What does this tell us?
- UBS think CS are in a bigger mess than the market knows
- If a deal doesn’t go through ahead of market opening, trading could be pretty volatile….money to be make here trading but you need nuts the size of basket balls to trade CS over the next few days.
What will this do to Gold in GBP?  Open in 7.5 hours will give some direction I guess. 
 
My guess is gold hitting GBP1645

To make things more interesting, if any prediction is spot on 100% to the cent, I will award an extra 1oz bonus. 
The members (UK based)who posted their prediction who were not technically allowed to enter will be allowed to win this bonus 1oz only.
Good luck to @Mtaybar @Petra @JoeBlack @Solachesis @andrewse @Domo @Mrpound @gji25 @ArgentSmith @Arganto @JamesH
Bonus only @GrahamDiamond @HerefordBullyun @KleinerVogel
Sorry @kimchi you edited your post thus disqualified. Rules are rules.

After the last few years we've got to have something to look forward to

After the last few years we've got to have something to look forward to

Silver is up about 8.5% today.

After the last few years we've got to have something to look forward to

I am truly appalled by the RM's incompetence and complete disregard for their customers.
This morning I phoned CS to to return my 4-coin set which, after 3 weeks in my hands is still not showing in my account, other than the "placeholder"  which those bought via account managers have been shown as since launch. OK she sorted it, but then asked why I still have outstanding "orders" for a 3-coin set and a full sov, still showing as "placeholders".
"Oh" she said, "I will check up on those, give me a few moments as nothing is coming up when I detail search them".
True enough, a couple of minutes later she came back "I'm afraid those haven't been minted yet and we have no information about when they will be. Feel reassured they will be sent to you as soon as they are minted" !!!
I am truly gobsmacked, she did apologise profusely but that only emphasises how bad they are, she sounded like she is no stranger to having to apologisse to disatisfied customers.
So, 4 and a half months after selling them, they still haven't minted them all. What a bunch of cowboys.

From the Chards website at the £60k quantity break
Best value sovs - 4.55%
Memorial sovs - 7.05%
KC III 1oz Brits - 3.4%
150 sovs or 100 sovs + 12x1oz Brits would work well.
You could also stick the £ into an allocated gold account (locking in the gold price when it suits) and then decide what products to purchase at a later date.

I would phone them all and ask what the best 'package' they can put together for you, and also what they recommend as best value for CGT-free.