Determining Physical Silver Price

HoneyTree said:
How are you all determining the price of physical silver?
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I don't understand the question. How would we "determine the price"? Whatever dealers are charging is the price, but it depends on the product, if they even have anything in stock anymore.

It's a huge mistake to buy now with these inflated premiums. Better to wait until premiums are normal again.
 
Thanks Alloy, I am just asking because I am thinking about selling some kilo bars if the premium is high enough. Trying to find a good way to determine price.

Alloy said:
I don't understand the question. How would we "determine the price"? Whatever dealers are charging is the price, but it depends on the product, if they even have anything in stock anymore.

It's a huge mistake to buy now with these inflated premiums. Better to wait until premiums are normal again.
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It's similar/higher prices in the us as awhile back, 18ish or more or even a little higher than that.
Maybe $26ish for silver eagles?

Its literally worth whatever people are paying right now. It's a sellers market.
 
Wow I take that back, not similar at all. Much higher premiums now.
21.1x face for some of the older junk silver now on apmex damn!
I havent looked at prices in a few days. I will be going to my lcs Saturday to see if he has anything.
Hes always very fair with me and I would buy either silver or gold right now. Fractional is better.
Not the best market to buy but I have a little cash and I'm not worried long term.
If theres nothing I will keep cash. I need a well drilled here this summer.
 
Shit my lcs is probably closed for all this corona bullcrap. I forgot about that!
The world has truly gone mad.
 
I intend to buy unallocated for now. Perth mint sells at ~25 cents above spot. Fortunately, I live in Perth, so converting to physical is probably cheaper and easier for me. It is a shame it a took almost a week for them to validate my account and probably a couple of days to transfer funds. Spot might be back up to $25 by then.
 
Granted that is a premium chunk of silver.. But that's $160 AUD for 3 ounces! And it sold quickly!

Is spot irrelevant at this point?
 
HoneyTree said:
Thanks Alloy, I am just asking because I am thinking about selling some kilo bars if the premium is high enough. Trying to find a good way to determine price.
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Ah, I see. So to triangulate the price, check out direct sales communities like PMsforsale on reddit, and the sellers here at Silver Stackers, and The Silver Forum. Then compare prices at dealers like Silver.com for the low end, and APMEX for the high end. Note that those two dealers don't have any kilo bars in stock right now...
 
Although they didn't sell as quickly as the small silver piece from yesterday I did sell two 1 kilo ASAHI bars for US$1900. Local buyer and I had to personally deliver them.

I am still not sure what the real prices are, but there is certainly a segment of the public that wants metals immediately. Plenty of trolls too.

I've only got a couple more small odds and ends in my stack left, I posted 10 x 1 oz sunshine buffaloes at $35/oz on a local US classified app. let's see what happens...
 
I'm not sure if this is helpful to you Honey Tree:

Here's the Perth Mint buy and sell page.
https://www.perthmint.com/metalpric...5.1819596597.1585255556-1263553638.1584086727

Here's the premiums on their gold and silver bullion products. (Fabrication premium)
https://www.perthmint.com/storage/pricing.html

As an example:
The Perth Mint's, Silver 1oz Kangaroo bullion coin x 1 has a $5.45 added to the spot price, which may vary.
The Perth Mint's, Silver 1oz Kangaroo bullion coin x 25 (sealed-tube of coins) has a $5.15 added to the spot price, which may vary.

For those folk who are unsure what their coin is worth, an easy method to give you a rough idea is to look at the sold listings on ebay.

The Silver Stackers site also has a link to a thread where members may advise.
 
Price/value is always what someone else will be willing to pay for it, or more accurately, a group (society). Use the spot price by our banking overlords as a guide only, it only follows digital algorithms which does't reflect the true price sometimes.
 
HoneyTree said:
Although they didn't sell as quickly as the small silver piece from yesterday I did sell two 1 kilo ASAHI bars for US$1900. Local buyer and I had to personally deliver them.

I am still not sure what the real prices are, but there is certainly a segment of the public that wants metals immediately. Plenty of trolls too.
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Definitely not for investment. Probably same reason as why people are buying toilet rolls - which by the way was started by the HK people.

I remembered it was only like 2 months ago when 10 oz silver fetched way less on Reddit than on this forum. The change is pretty amazing.
 
From my day job:


Bolivia: Bolivia’s largest silver mine suspends operations amid COVID-19 crisis
Published At : Fri Mar 27 18:57:16 2020

Bolivian mine suspends operations


The San Cristobal silver mine in Bolivia announced it has suspended operations after the interim government of Jeanine Añez imposed tough rules in order to contain the spread of the COVID-19 in the Andean nation.

In a Friday statement, the operator of the San Cristobal mine, which is a massive deposit of silver, zinc , lead, said that it would impose a “temporary suspension of the production and export of concentrated zinc, lead and silver minerals” following the President Añez’s measures.

Earlier this week, the interim government said that it would extend an obligatory quarantine period until the second week of April, close Bolivia’s border and tighten further the movement of people because of the COVID-19 crisis.

In the statement, which was eventually posted on Twitter, the San Cristobal mine’s operator added that the move came “in the face of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and as a precaution for the health and life of workers.”

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