Lots Of Selling Activity

A coin store near my school opened the day after the big dip. I've been coming in every week since, adding to my Canadian 80% date sets and chatting it up. When the store was first opened, there was a modest selection of silver dollars near spot and a couple centennials (centennial quarters/dimes are the only silver the owner sends in to get melted due to their fluctuating content). I was pretty sure the dollars would be gone fast, so I got one, and I was right - next week, all that remained was a 1967 that had been glued to something at some point. However, the lower denomination silver (dimes and quarters) was gone.

Here's where this ancedote gets weird (and worth posting about): just two weeks later, with commodity prices still staggering through their lowest levels in several years, the store now carries about 5 pounds of 80% silver, mostly quarters. Now, I can understand why you'd dump bullion at a drop like this - maybe you think it'll keep going down from now on and you're getting out while you still can - but junk silver? I was expecting the store to get stingy with silver prices, but everything was bought after the dip and the 80% is coming in and out by the bucketload. The owner is making so much off premiums that he's the only coin store in the area to be selling close to spot. I wonder why so many more people are selling than buying? They can't all be expecting a continued downtrend, can they?