Anyone buy silver?

Off-topic Chatter
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Looking to turn a few of my collections into silver. Anyone regularly buy silver? What is the best way to buy it as close to market value as possible? I have been looking around, and all of the bars and coins quite a bit over the current silver value

I have tried pawn shops, they wont sell silver bullion. Said market value is too low.

Tried local coin shops and jewelry shops, they want more for a 10oz bar than I can get it for online.

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I buy bags from APMEX

Although I haven’t bought since silver was around 5-6$ an ounce. It’s probably not a bad time to buy more.

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I bought a little from silvertowne and ebay…bullion and coins. Silvertowne offers free shipping on many items. But, I haven’t bought any for several months…so not too sure how competitive they are.

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I was looking there too. You can get their secondary market bars/coins at about as close to the market value that I had seen.

http://www.apmex.com/category/518/silver-bars-secondary-market

I am not looking for pretty or collectable bars and coins, just silver. I was even looking at their silver shot lol

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I have bought from them many times in the past and their Junk silver is a great price very close to spot per ounce of silver. They deliver fast too. What I like about the junk coin silver is that just in case TSHTF people know what it’s worth in a way that other things don’t. It would be a fairly easy thing to trade with.

You can definitely order from them with full confidence, they are legit and have been around a long time. Great company.

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Thanks. Probably will keep trying to get some for a steal off eBay, but think I will focus the bulk of my purchases to APMEX.

Not really looking at prepping for a SHTF situation, more retirement. But if S does HTF, silver would be easier to move than video games, dvds, collectable knives and other assorted stuff I saved up over the years.

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I used to bid on silver on e-bay and get some once in awhile under spot. I also used to buy liberty nickels from APMEX around spot and go through all of them and pick out sets and sell them. I did that back when silver was cheap. I would always make enough to pay for a bunch of silver that I kept and still break even. But once silver hit $20 an ounce the silver was worth more than the nickels were so I gave it up.

Another trick I used to do was go to banks and pick up a couple hundred bucks worth of 50 cent pieces and go through them, each time I would get four or five silver ones. But the last few times I did it I was lucky if I got one.

I got hooked on silver as a kid when the Hunt brothers cornered the market and did really well for a young kid. I sold off at about the right time and bought a dirt bike. I had an uncle that got me into coin collecting when I was really young.