Stacker/Collector

[HelpingHands]

I'm having trouble finding it.  I know the episode was called 'Silver Linings'

 

 

Meanwhile whilst looking I came across this montage.  Stories 1 and 3 are coin related.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4P03YAZR8

[Hookythestacker]

Thanks HH, I did find a clip but not available due to copyright restrictions.

[HelpingHands]

Yeah I saw that too. I'll keep an eye out.

[Hookythestacker]

Had another good skeg around for the elusive ingot clip with nil found, glad you saw it too HH or I'd be thinking it only ever existed in my head. Maybe it's the clip the ubiquitous "they"   don't want anyone to see in case it sparks a silver rush.

[jayboat]

I would class myself as a stacker but i have a few collectable coins. 

My silver story began in Nov 2013 when i ordered 4 bullion coins from europesilverbullion. The day they arrived, i couldnt stop playing with them, magnet testing, putting into capsules. It was all very fun for me as a 29 year stoner planning to use half my matched betting income plus £30 a week from my pay for buying silver. I was almost 30 and i was reflecting on the money that had gone through my hands, i had worked from i was 16 and have had a few successful ebay ventures making 5 figure yearly amounts, made a tidy 5 figure amount from poker for 2 running years back when nobody knew how to play and had been doing matched betting on and off but always making £5-10k per year. I thought that if i had just lived off my wage from work and saved all that extra money, what would i have now. So at that moment, i decided to do just that and live only off my wage until i was 40 and save all my extra income. I would like to retire with a little extra pocket money being the main driver. That night i bought x3 £20 silver coins from the royal mint and i was hooked. 

At the beginning of 2014 i was only buying an oz a week from ebay, then i started using sarniasilver and buying 1/2 ozers, 3 a week to fill my first tube. Soon got bored of paying postage all the time and decided to save up my weekly money and place bigger orders. I used atkinsons mix and match 2-3 times, always orders of around £180 to make sure i got the 10 coin discount. I found STG at the end of the year and placed a 6-7 coin order, i was so happy to find a good vat free website. I had started doing matched betting again and a big casino win so decided to buy a 500g baird and co bar and a 2014 NCG MS-69 early release panda as christmas presents to myself  I finished the year with close to 120oz's i think.

2015 was pretty much all STG, 1 order from the royal mint, 1 from atkinsons and a few coins from ebay. I had really started to stack by now and transferred all my coins into square quadrum capsules as they stacked more easy in my new britannia monster box. Plan was stack 5 of each 1 oz coin except eagle that STG sold, x50 1/2 oz lunars,  full tube of brits and any cheap bullion coins that came along. I added 10 1/2 oz lunars every order i placed with STG until i had my 50, got the the 5 of each kooks, koalas, uk an ozzy lunar goats, libertads, pandas, maples ect as they were released and i had the money and also added a tube each of the 2013 1.5oz polar bears, 2015 2oz hawksbill turtle and 2015 elephant coins   This was a very good year for me, i had a good run with matched betting and along with the £30 a week from my pay every week, i prob stacked up around 260 oz's.+. I opened a ratesetter account at the end of the year which could have been another 80ish oz's.

2016 has been good so far having just bought a bunch of old brits from Nordfrim. Date run from 1999 to 2006 with extra 2001, 2005 and 2006s. Actually still waiting on this as im sure other members are. I have placed 1 order this year with STG and 2 with goldsilver, was just pricing up my 3rd order until the above offer came up. The reason i first used silvergold was STG had no 1/2oz lunars in stock and i had seen a few good reviews in another section of the forum, i also upped up order to 15 pandas with them as they sold them with the sheet (im so easy sold). I was very surprised the see the prices cheaper than STG  and it still worked out cheaper after paying a fee at transferwise. Just needing to get my last 10 1/2 oz lunar and x5 libertads to complete this years stuff and as there still is 8 months left for stacking this i have decided to mainly stack brits. Im upto 70 brits so 100+ would be very nice. To be honest, l love getting a big order but its not as much fun anymore, it feels more robotic now when placing orders and when saving for silver. When i make say £50 from some betting offer, its automatic to put £25 into silver account and £25 into saving account. Its all almost very boring and routine and its working out really well. Im on track for 280+ ozs and more into  this year unless something tragic happens. 

My silver stacking strategy has changed a few times. In the beginning it was simple, get at least an oz a week from ebay. Now is changed quite a bit, My main strategy now is to collect x5 of each Libertad, koala, kookaburra, perth lunar, maple, elephant, and UK lunar coins. 50 1/2oz lunar coins and 1 2oz coin for personal collection. Then buy as many brits as i can. I keep an excel sheet that i update every time i get a decent order and use the ebay filters to show me to cheapest sold buy it now uk listing. I have started thinking more about an exit strategy.

My exit plan was sell up on ebay when silver is at £25 until around summer 2015 when the monster box was getting heavy and i had to buy another one. I started to think about having to make all the listings, post them all out, answer all the questions and having to deal have the hassel, its not stress free to sell on ebay any more. I thought to myself that i had quite poorly thought it out not just in cashing out but cashing up to fiat cash. So the new plan was to continue buying the yearly coins and add lots of extra brits instead of tubes from other counties. I am now waiting for a 40-1 silver to gold ratio and plan to swap brits, full tubes and 500g bar for gold coins/bars with a bullion dealer. I will cash out my yearly coins on a site like this to get the premium and buy gold. After that i dont no, thats too far into the future to plan, i maybe wait for a 70-1 silver to gold ratio but i may be an old man by then and have already decided just to cash out instead of buying any gold. 

Sorry i went on so long, its just nice and quite in the house right now and i dont get a chance to make big posts that often. 

 

 

[matrawr]

Well I first started off with a pamp and nwtm bar but I came across the johnson matthey bars and fell in love with them and jm is my initials in reverse and no my name isn't matthey johnson lol. So guess I'm going to be more of a collector from here on.

[gkoogk]

 

[gkoogk]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x446qk5  silver linings