ASE's Where Do You Buy Yours?

You can't expect bullion quotes to be good for a week.

Like I said I am new to this but when silver doesn't go up very much can the price of an ASE go up $4.00 each?

Yes they can for a few reasons - supply an demand if they are selling a lot price can go up as supple goes down - I see this at small shops.

Morgans - price is all over the place recently and the BU do not drop, usually, though if they are as bad as you said then the price shouldn't be $40.00.

Guess I am pretty lucky, at my local silver shop I normally get bullion ASE at $2.50 over spot and proofs, except low mintage dates at $4 over spot.

If you are that far out in the country that there is no other shops around to compete, then sorry man, that's the price. They factor in the price of gas just like you do when they go to the big city to make a big buy. It is way high. I'm just across the river from a top 25 US metro area, so competition is fierce. I get local prices under APMEX stated from my local shop, not even counting shipping.

Can you post up to see if other local folks would want to pitch in for a bulk buy? Local coin clubs might be a help?

Yes, those look like pretty good prices to me. Lots of shops out there charge more than that. A couple of my local shops charge spot + $4-5 on ASEs and are frequently sold out. They buy quite a few but they also sell quite a few. Unless I can do better than the on-line price, I don't buy a lot of ASEs locally. Even when I do, they are likely to have only half a dozen or so available. It's not like they have several mint tubes worth at any given time... unless they have just received a mint box shipment within the past week or so. Because of this, I tend to visit their shops fairly often to see how the inventory and prices are doing.