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There don't seem to be stable brands or manufacturers if you buy them on Amazon or eBay. They're all random Chinese brands, and there might be something like a 10:1 ratio of brand models to actual products, such that the same scale is sold under many different names. The one I bought on Amazon...

This is incorrect. Retail, low volumes of anything will always have premiums over the spot or wholesale price. There is and always will be premiums on retail silver. You're ignoring volume and what spot price represents. On COMEX silver is traded in 5,000 ounce units. That's the minimum. It's...

Premiums have been extraordinarily high for a little over a year, basically since the early days of the pandemic. I have an online premiums spreadsheet from early 2020 where you can see how things looked before, at least in the US: Google Sheets link. Silver always has higher premiums than...

That doesn't make sense. Retail silver is already at its true market value. There's nothing preventing it from being priced normally. There is no such thing as a "true" market value different from whatever the market value actually is. That notion is usually just gripes by people who wish the...

I hadn't heard of John Adams before, or this As Good As Gold firm. I'm in Arizona though, not Oz. But I'm surprised by the malice and lack of empathy on this thread. First, I probably wouldn't like his content and opinions, if the other posts are accurate. I'm not a physicalist barbarian who...

Governments and the economists who collaborate with them. The primary motive for governments seems to be in prosecuting the drug war, making it harder to launder money, and maybe they'll throw in something about terrorism. Economists are incredibly strange people to me, and alarming. It's...

Is it arbitrarily timed, like on a set date? That would be suboptimal, potentially buying high instead of low. I've long wondered why dealers don't offer automated purchases triggered by specified conditions. I guess that's called a "limit order" in the stock market context. Texas Precious...

All those pictures and eBay sellers are for capsules and holders for single bars. The OP wants tubes.

What about them? The OP is asking about tubes.

Are you talking about the same thing? The OP is asking about tubes for 10 oz bars. Tubes, not capsules. A tube would hold many bars, not just one, like the rectangular CoinSafe tubes that hold 20 1 oz bars.

There are none for 10 oz bars. People just keep that size in separate capsules, or more commonly in plastic bags and boxes. CoinSafe makes rectangular tubes for 1 oz bars. They hold 20 bars. There are also Sure-Safe containers that hold 20 1 oz bars, but they're not tubes – they're more like...

PAMP Suisse also makes poured bars: https://www.pamp.com/castbars/AG02RI013S999

Also the Golden State Mint in the USA: https://www.goldenstatemint.com "Golden State" is the nickname for California, so I assumed they were based there, but it turns out they're in Florida. Maybe they moved – California's government makes it an awful place to have a business. They make their...

I'm always bothered by how secretive these businesses are. It comes off as needlessly shady. They generally don't provide an address. In many cases, not even a state or province. And in some cases, I'm not even clear on what country they're in. They also never have any kind of introduction by...

Yeah, it seems overpriced at retail. The premiums are ridiculous and I think it's a big mistake to pay them, i.e. to buy retail silver right now. You're unlikely to ever recover the premiums, good way to lose money. When premiums are like this it's better to go with paper, allocated, etc. if...

Ratios don't matter at all. Certainly not the mining ratio of silver to gold. That's just arbitrary number games, as arbitrary as the ratio of mined silver to mined titanium, or the ratio of mined silver to pounds of lean hogs slaughtered. What matters is supply and demand. And costs, which...

Oh, I actually missed the poll part. Wasn't used to seeing it I guess, might have thought that graphic was an ad. I just voted now.

Oil is cheaper. Lots of metals and crops are cheaper, including the ones previously cited. I'm not sure why you think things should be more expensive, or why silver should be more expensive. Why should any element or commodity be more expensive over time? Technological progress tends to make...

Can anyone point me to a good resource for learning what this "silver squeeze" is? Is there a summary somewhere or a nice online article? Thanks.

History shows? Whose history? I don't even know what country the OP is talking about, ergo which dollar. Is this about the US? Australia? It's wildly irrelevant that one country's dollar was defined as a fixed amount of silver in centuries past. That's obviously not what any country's dollar is...