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Welcome to the forum!
You can search for the member you’d like to contact in the directory, and then send a private message. Feel free to get in touch if you’d like any help. 

Welcome to the forum!
You can search for the member you’d like to contact in the directory, and then send a private message. Feel free to get in touch if you’d like any help. 

I have just joined the forum and am initially looking to make contact with another member: gji25, please can anyone advise how I go about doing so?
Many thanks in advance for any help, much appreciated.
I look forward to becoming more familiar and purchasing some silver!

 

This is lining up to be an epic raffle for charity! 

UPDATE 16/3/22
Hey Everyone!
We had an amazing amount of donations come through in both physical and cash. 
With the cash I calculated £25/oz would be the price to pay for cash donations. 
I am happy to say that I have managed to source some melting silver today for £21.65 per oz!
This means that instead of the predicted 27.75 oz of silver I have managed to source 32 ozt instead!
Assuming all the physical donations arrive this means we will actually have a total of 52 ozt worth of silver. 
I have poured 5 big bars and submitted them today for laser hallmarking, their weight worked out to be about 48 ozt. 
So, I intend to have the remaining silver, approximately 4 ozt as part of the giveaway in most likely coin form that I will choose from my random box of coins featured on my channel. 
That means there will be most likely 9 prizes!
5x big bars
4x 1 oz coins!
More to come in terms of the raffle and entries. 

Hi, @BackyardBullion,
Just I have transferred another £75 into your account, with reference STEFFFANA 3oz, to be a a total of 50 oz donated.
Great idea, well done!
All the best for all of you, nice people!🤗
Stefan.

Nice idea to maintain a run of them so to speak, with different pourers doing subsequent editions! Could this edition maybe be issue 1(?) and/or mention in some kind of etching that it is to commemorate the Ukraine crisis. Might give the bars a bit more specific meaning going forward?? 
Apologies if treading on toes or something in pipeline already, just a thought🤷.
Beautiful bars of course!!!

UPDATE 15/3/22
We have now got 47 oz of silver donated.
With the cash transfers of £25/oz I am going to be buying some silver from the secondary market and this will actually yield a little more than 1 oz per £25 so our total is now complete.
A massive thank you to everyone who has donated. 
We will now be working on getting the raffle thread opened and look to the next stages of the project.
Thank you so much all!
BYB

Holy smokes, this has took off. Great job BYB, on the organising and the bars.

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

So, donations flooding in, some of it in cash which means I can pour some bars today!
Here are 3 of probably 5 bars
All sitting around the 9 to 10 oz mark
All the sides have plenty of room for all the marks!

Amazing, that brings our total to 37 ozt!

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

Howdy all!
We have an exciting new project that I am happy to formally announce in partnership with some incredibly talented UK Silver Pourers .
@StBeesSilver @RiverbankSilver @SilverAngel @LiquidMetalsUK @AtomicSilver @GeordieStacker and myself are going to be creating a collaboration Silver Bar to raffle off to raise funds for The Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. @ChrisSilver Has approved this to be managed and run via The Silver Forum, a big thanks for that!
We are looking at adding additional UK pourers too - any new confirmations will be shared out here on this thread in due course. 
The Red Cross Appeal is a very worthy cause right now and one that will bring a lot of much needed aid to a lot of people. 
https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal
Check them out and please feel free to donate outside of this raffle too!
Now, we are working out all of the particulars and this thread serves as STAGE 1
STAGE 1 - Adding Weight - 1 week 
Each UK Silver Pourer is donating 1 ozt of silver but we are open for anyone else to donate additional oz's of silver to make more bars and bigger bars. 
The plan is to get up to 50 ozt (this is a decent weight to be posting in one go around the country) and have 5 or 6 bars of 8 to 10 ozt each.
So, if you would like to donate an oz of silver then you can do so one of two ways:
1) Please DM me (Backyard Bullion) and I will give you my PO Box address where you can physically send your silver. 999 fine silver only please and preferably coin form 
Option 1 is only available to UK based members. 
2) Purchase an ozt of silver directly from me to be added to the pot. I will be sourcing silver coins from the forum to add these to the pot, a good guide right now is about £23 per oz.
Option 2 will be best for NON UK members to donate silver - no long shipping or Import tax issues. 
At the end of Sunday 20th March I will know how much Silver we are working with and I can pour some big boy bars for us all to stamp!
STAGE 2 - Hallmarking - 1 Week
We plan to have a big feature laser hallmark applied to these bars. As big as we can get that fits well and shows off the wonders of UK Hallmarking
STAGE 3 - Stamping - 1 to 2 Weeks
After Hallmarking is done we can all add our logos and stamping flavour to the bar(s).
We have 6 pourers confirmed right now, that might increase so getting it posted around the country might take a week or two.
STAGE 4 - Raffle
The exact date of the raffle closing and draw will depend somewhat on the timescales from the above. 
We plan to have tickets cost £5 each with as many entries as you like per person. Entries will be payable to me (Backyard Bullion) with ALL proceeds going to the Red Cross Appeal after the raffle closes. 
Multiple bars means multiple winners so the more silver we can raise in week 1 the better. 
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW IN DUE COURSE
This is all an evolving project plan but because of the time it will take to get these bars made we wanted to start the ball rolling right now. 
I will be sharing more information about the raffle tickets in due course. 
What YOU need to do right now
If you would like to get involved by donating an ozt of silver (or more that one single oz!) please let us all know by sharing here or DM'ing me for details of how to donate or send silver. 
 

Hi Everyone
Thank you all for the lovely things you have said about our team at Bleyer and kind words of support, even from Lawrence at Chards. 
Things are very difficult at the moment for everyone. People have been set against one another and bent a bit out of shape - whether about Brexit, Covid, Ukraine or something else.
We recognise this and try to combat it by showing compassion, rather than getting angry as that doesn't help anyone.
I think it helps to think of us as all being on the same team.
I hope you all have a wonderful day, I have a bit of Devon sunshine here to put a smile on my face as well as knowing that many of you have our backs.
Thank you again.
Caroline
 

Hi Gary
I see I am a bit late to the party here as I've been tied up in meetings all morning. I really do not understand why you felt the need to air something that I thought we had already addressed to your complete satisfaction.
Since this is in the public domain I am respecting your privacy, but here are the facts to put the record straight. I am very proud of my wonderful team who bend over backwards to help people all they can, it is a shame when this is not appreciated.
You have purchased several times from us and due to the amount of money spent overall, we requested standard compliance information. The fact that we have these procedures, keeps our bank and our merchant terminal provider happy. We do not pass this data onto anyone and this was clearly explained to you in a long email from me personally. Bullion dealers are routinely targeted by fraudsters using innocent people's money to buy bullion that can be easily turned into cash, our request to you was strictly standard practice - nothing more than that.
This was your tenth order over a period of almost 7 years so yes, since you seemed so upset about being asked for ID and your orders are not of enormous value, I felt it reasonably safe to make a small exception in this case. You ordered 2021 coins and 2022 coins. Our database was out, so there were no 2021 coins available but I did have 2022 coins coming in. 
In addition to waiving the ID request, I offered you a discount of £43.46 or a refund for the 2021 coins.
You were not happy with this offer and requested a refund. My sales team processed the refund immediately and advised that it may not show up immediately on your account.
I am interested to know what else we could possibly have done to please you?
I hope that whatever pain you are in will pass soon.
Best wishes
Caroline
 

Thank you!!! Looking forward to being a part of this great forum!

Welcome to the forum!  In the US I like @BullionExchanges and SD Bullion when it comes to price, and APMEX for selection.
It’s also a good idea to introduce yourself of the Welcome New Members thread. This forum is a great place to buy as well!

Recent auction win.
Looks like this set was still in the sealed plastic bag until the auctioneer opened it to take pictures.  Box and coins are perfect.
 
 

Some lovely mixed Merc's and Rosie's in today. stack is growing nicely 

Thanks to @Ryan for the Brits. But alas lost when i paddled off in my boat this morning. Gone. 🤔
When will I learn I must buy some more to replace them.