ShineyMagpie

Absolutely, it's fairly typical and can't be complained about.
Personally I'm no fan of Metalor bars, I prefer the aesthetics of Umicore. Umicore cast 1kg bars are plastic wrapped in the factory so tend to not pick up the sort of marks on your Metalor.
A sealed in plastic minted bar might be more your thing. Cost you more, but you pays your money, you makes your choice. Check out the Valcambi combibars at e.g. Tavex. 

Good news everyone they have finally cleared customs! UPS are requesting customs charges be paid that I already paid them in advance last week (honestly this is the most disorganised company ever!). Just trying to get this sorted have to call them back tomorrow. All being well they should arrive in my hands this week!

Managed to make contact with someone at UPS. The machines are with customs awaiting release. I have asked UPS to chase but it's a bit of a waiting game at the moment unfortunately. Will update when I know more.

Customs are taking their sweet ass time. Will be back onto UPS tomorrow when they open and should have an update soon. Sorry for the delay everyone!

Another quick update. The units have arrived in the UK and are currently awaiting customs clearance fingers crossed they clear customs tomorrow and so arrive in my hands Friday. Appologise for the delay it looks like some paperwork wasn't filled in correctly by Sigma and so that has delayed matters some what.

There is also one with a 90 degree rotation of Britannia, or is it 270 degrees? much rarer I'm told😉

Well good-luck next time. You allowed yourself to be influenced by the difference in weight which was not an issue. It’s normal for a sovereign to lose weight in circulation! - but you were right to be cautious if you didn’t understand that aspect….

Hello All,
Due to the 30 day locking period of for sales topics I will be posting updates here was this should last forever. The current state of play is as follows:
10 units are arriving in mid Feb these will be offered to the first 10 people who contacted me putting their name down for one
The rest of the units will arrive at the end of Feb and I will then contact the remaining people for payment

Time for another update. The first batch of units has been dispatched from America estimated delivery is apprently Thursday. Will start contacting people in the middle of next week regarding payment and delivery etc. Second batch is going to be dispatched around the end of the month so should be here at the start of March. Appolgise for the delay this is how Sigma describe themselves
"
Sigma Metalytics is a family owned and operated business based in Chico, California, founded in 2013. We take pride in the fact that our components are sourced from the U.S.A. and each of our units is hand-built to order right here in our Chico factory.
We’re not a big tech company that can always overnight your order, but our engineers take the time to build, calibrate, and test each Precious Metal Verifier by hand to ensure they are the finest quality and have the highest accuracy.  "

This is where the discussions between preservation of wealth vs terms investment come into play. No one can know for certain what's gonna happen 

This is where the discussions between preservation of wealth vs terms investment come into play. No one can know for certain what's gonna happen 

This is where the discussions between preservation of wealth vs terms investment come into play. No one can know for certain what's gonna happen 

Although it may feel hot I doubt it get hot enough to damage a gold coin.

Put water in the capsule and give it a mojito, and it won't move for 2 weeks like an Englishman in Benidorm 

Seems I have been quite fortunate, my half sovereign appears to be OK, at least to my untrained standards 🙄 

Cheap and cheerful but I would also add a neodymium magnet to that list, very quick and easy one to check @minionsofgold. Another thing you can do after the fact is a specific gravity test. You can find instructions online for how to do it.

Cheap and cheerful but I would also add a neodymium magnet to that list, very quick and easy one to check @minionsofgold. Another thing you can do after the fact is a specific gravity test. You can find instructions online for how to do it.

Set of digital calipers and decent set of scales can be had for around £50-60 , you really shouldn't be buying gold willy nilly without them. 
 

Seems I have been quite fortunate, my half sovereign appears to be OK, at least to my untrained standards 🙄 

Seems I have been quite fortunate, my half sovereign appears to be OK, at least to my untrained standards 🙄 

Huge shout out to @arphethean great service as always, for my humble haul I received!

I don't think that £100 cover includes coins or precious metal either, so SD is the only way to go if you want insurance. But nobody wants to pay that much for posting a 1oz silver, so tracked and signed for are a good compromise. They'll protect you against some false claims of non-receipt, and may even reduce the likelihood of the package going missing compared with normal post, but if the package goes missing entirely then you're shafted.
It's all a gamble really. For cheaper coins, paying for what is essentially uninsured but tracked postage might work out cheaper in the long run even if a few items go missing. I would probably start to consider using SD for anything over £30-£50 if the recipient has a weird address or lives in shared flats or anywhere else where the postie might accidentally hand it to the wrong person.
 

Just having a laugh mate, buying single 1oz silver and paying for postage is an extremely expensive way to buy silver, add a 50p capsule in the mix and you’d need silver to more than double in price just to stand a chance of breaking even at some point in the future. 
 
What might be a good idea is to find a dealer who allows you to prepay it’s ideal for the smaller bullion buyer as you can use this to save up with them and buy more at better price breaks and postage per coin is dramatically reduced.    Paying RMSD or any postage per  1oz of silver is nuts IMO  when you factor in the crazy spread. 

I do understand your point, I myself haven't sold anything on here, but as a buyer I also understand this standpoint. For me personally when I am looking at prices for items I include p&p as part of my total cost for item. So when buying low value singular items the cost can be high, buy a silver 1oz for £30 but then with postage it suddenly becomes £37 with RM SD. Obviously when you buy from a business there is more "cover" if I pay for item with royal mail tracking and it doesn't arrive I contacted the business and come to an agreement. No on here as a private seller people often state (and rightly so) postage at buyers risk. I do understand the hypocritical point you were talking about but I suppose that's just my thoughts behind people's mentality.... maybe I'm making a wrong assumption?