Can You Still Make Money Buying Mint Coins

The best way for coins to appreciate... or at least hold their own is to ignore the NCLT in it's entirety. Concentrate on Bullion coins, and make your purchases as close to spot price as you can. If/When the bullion value goes up Sell. If we all did this, maybe the Mint, and sellers would come back to earth with their pricing. ($115 for an ounce of silver is insane!!)

With the Bullion coins there is no 'emotional component' of the coins. Buy low, wait....sell high.....repeat.

NCLT - as others have stated is Art. Some like them... price goes up... some aren't so well appreciated... price goes down. regardless of their intrinsic bullion. (of course, the bottom is always the spot price of the content - whether it be gold or silver).

Yes and its due to the mints business model I imagine, as with most if not all companies they have to make more and more money each year then the previous year to make the bean counters happy and share holders etc etc( I dont know if the mint actually has share holders lol , hmmm maybe you and me are the share holders), but this hobby only has so many willing to buy NCLTs , who knows the inner workings of the mint anyways but one things for sure, if they keep pumping out more and more its going to sour some of the collectors , that's a given, but if they can find more markets/ more people willing to buy then all is well in the wonderful world of the RCM.

I know one thing though, I can buy four/five 1oz semi numis silver bullion coins for the price the mints wants for just 1oz silver.

The only way to make money in one persons lifetime would be to buy on the secondary market.
Unless you are extremely lucky at selecting the issues that sell out due to high demand, or silver comes back in a big way for the Ag issues, I don't see the value reaching the premiums that the mint charges.
Best to buy/collect for the pleasure of collecting. If in the end you are ahead you have profit as an added bonus.

I have noticed that too coins that have sold out their mint striking so what could it mean. I believe you flood the market with so many coins and they don't sell out. This should be a wake up call for the mint, with the mint making record profits have the people to be only seeing dollar signs.
I do own 2 of the superman coins anything superman will hold value,disappointed when they released a second minting of them. Now the gold coin has come out how many superman coin will the mint release. Could it be one day we will see Rob Ford on a coin?

I think most of the ideas in this thread are quite reasonable.
Nevertheless, restrained cynicism may work to your benefit. That should make you quite selective in your buying decisions. Therefore, hasten slowly when considering to buy new issue or aftermarket NCLT.

The mints are out to maximise profits for their owners, just like any other business. They produce NCLT to help to achieve this. They will price their products to what they think the market will bear, in order to maximise those profits. That helps to explain why NCLT new issue prices seem to be reasonably high.
They also control the size of each NCLT new issue.

From the collectors' standpoint, the best strategy is to only acquire those issues that interest you, and for a price which you think is reasonable, but with idea that the possiblty of a big profit on re sale is fairly remote.
With that sort of philosophic approach, you should not be too dissapointed, most of the time. Nevertheless the possibility of the Pandora Principle could still apply.

I have some NCLT purchased on the aftermarket: The Great Britain 1937 gold proofs of George V1, and I have always been very happy with them. I have no intention of selling, even in the distant future.

Which is pretty hard to do since "hot" coins are far and few between. What "hot" coins did we see in 2014 besides the Superman coins? And you pretty much have to mark it up 20% to make any money after ebay fees.

Actually its not hard in my opinion.

As I always do, I have a list, I watch what coins sell out at the Mint, which sell out at dealers, carry it over to ebay and start recording those that run higher, and calculate as they move higher. The strategy would be to only focus on those coins that appreciate and move higher on the secondary market. If RCM is all you wanted to flip, then focus just on that simple. IF not, you can easily expand to a wide range of coins.

those in turn do on average are the ones that run higher on ebay over a period of time. Many coins of this category have come down in price but no where near their original mint issue.

Its a lot of work to keep all this data and follow it but it can be done.

Will not say anything new, but it's basic:

The dealers, even small, do make money...it's not guaranteed, and not 100% safe path, but "The Coin Shoppe" and "WSD" are good examples.

Otherwise, not being dealers is also possible. But in this case, the amounts will be not significant and will be enough to cover own collection. Examples - manage to buy for resale and collection "hot" coins only and only:
Gold Superman, Gods of Olympus, US HoF, Gold Mickey.
And its all.
Possible to make money and on other items, which can be sold $5-$10 above issue, but here be prepared for hard work, basically it already close to being dealer.