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Buying gold - websites to recommend
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Try ebay! Sovereigns are your best bet.I must, I must, get my post average up to 1 a day!!
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The other option is the Royal Mint with free P&P not that I'm exactly happy with the idea of the local posty wandering around with my savings in an envelope
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Not sure if my calcs are right, almost think they can't be, but you'd be paying a hell of a premium to buy through there., like close to 30%?The other option is the Royal Mint with free P&P not that I'm exactly happy with the idea of the local posty wandering around with my savings in an envelopeHope for the best.....Plan for the worst!
"Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse." Unknown0 -
slow_saver wrote: »Try ebay! Sovereigns are your best bet.
Not really. People are paying silly premiums on eBay. Chards batches of 50 sovereigns of their choice have a 7% premium (I think). Trouble is, it takes 3 months for them to get together your batch and you agree the price at the day you buy rate....so it is like buying futures.
Similar Krugerrands to ones I bought for 380GBP last year are selling for 700+ on Ebay (even when their scrap price is less than 600 today (14/1/09)
Also many of the sovereigns on eBay are often gold PLATED from cheap jewellery or 9ct not 24ct.
I'm happy to purchase higher than Chard's prices (www.taxfreegold.co.uk) so PM me if interested.
Vigman (Jon)
PS No cash or gold kept at my home!!!!Any information given in my posts or replies is intended to be of interest and/or help to members of the forum. I cannot guarantee that this is accurate or up to date.0 -
Where do you keep them, I would want to have a bed of gold personally
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.........Far, far away..........actually in a bank vault on an island!!!
Serious bit: If you have a safe at home stuffed with goodies, either burglars these days will torture you and/or loved ones until you open it, or just take the whole thing!!!!
Vigman
PS You could always sew them into the bottom of curtains as our thrifty ancestors did!! Any information given in my posts or replies is intended to be of interest and/or help to members of the forum. I cannot guarantee that this is accurate or up to date.0
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