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Valued Member
United States
245 Posts |
Two questions, first, what is your sell number for your silver stash? I figure my minimum number is $40 per ounce, I'm in at less than $20 per ounce. If I go to sell large amounts of silver, is it best to sell off in 9k quantities? Would you sell to APNEX, JM Bullion, or the LCS? These are pertinent questions that I don't see asked around here too much, thanks!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
1. I don't plan on selling. 2. Depends on wether or not you want a paper trail (regarding taxes).
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors... Roll hunting since '77 Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
992 Posts |
I would sell only in an over-the-counter situation, not sending your stuff anywhere.
Most LCS's sell their bulk purchases on to another buyer, you might find out who that buyer is and go directly to them.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
No number. Sell when you need the cash and you have no other option. Don't gamble with this. Silver takes up too much real estate to only double your money. You need to buy and sell everyday. When the number is high, who's going to buy it? People rarely buy it today the way it is. Have silver as something to fall back on as a store of wealth, not as an investment, as there are much better vehicles for that type of play.
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Valued Member
 United States
245 Posts |
I still think people need to have "their" number. Silver is still an investment, it's a hedge investment against inflation. Yesterday I bought five dollars face value worth of junk silver, Walking Liberty halves. The man I buy from has been setting up every Saturday in this roadside market for 25 years. He told me that he bought a couple of monster boxes back in the 90s when silver was very low. His profits were staggering from those 1000 coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3789 Posts |
All I will say is selling into an uptrend, and if silver got into the 40s, is going to set up a lot of folks for remorse.
What will happen as time goes on is these levels being broken now on the way up will act as support for silver on the way down (whenever this current uptrend is over), making the probabilities slimmer of seeing a retracement as we saw recently when silver and gold stopping going higher.
I plan on holding and BUYING on the way up, I mean I am and will be backing up the truck so long as silver and gold keep rising.
However, at the end of the day, everyone has to do what fits them emotionally/psychologically.
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Valued Member
United States
231 Posts |
I'd probably do a mixture of selling to my LCS and on ebay. I don't have a very large stack and it's varied, so I don't think I'd even make the minimum sell to amounts for the big bullion sellers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
I would sell 1/2 of my silver once it hit $30-$35. Another 1/4 of my silver at $40-$45 and I would never sell 1/4 of my silver. That 1/4 is for the kids.
3/4 of my silver was bought below $17 per ounce.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1044 Posts |
So for those that have sold off some of your silver, how exactly does it work? Do you actually get the market price for it or do you typically negotiate somewhere below it. Would figure whoever is buying also needs to make some money off of it.
I don't have to sell btw, just curious that's all.
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
1358 Posts |
I actually don't intend to sell any of my physical PM during my lifetime: I collect it for fun. I will if I have to, but I'm not waiting for a certain number to appear before selling: having a number isn't saying me much unless circumstantial conditions like inflation rate are also taken into account, actually.
What the next generation does with my silver collection, is up to the next generation...
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And now for where I would sell...
I think I'd try to get as much sold in private as possible, as pawn shops, coin shops and similar institutes generally offer very low prices compared to spot and also come with over head costs and a long paper trail.
Edited by UltraRant 09/21/2016 2:50 pm
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Valued Member
 United States
245 Posts |
I think I would find a private party too. The tax on precious metals is something that I'm strongly opposed to because it's an extremely high tax rate. There is absolutely no way I would leave much of a paper trail if I cashed my metals out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3789 Posts |
yes yes, taxes are way too high on capital gains, and its even at a silly rate for bullion. I would sell wherever I get the best price. I am certain my somalian elephants will only go for spot at a coin dealer so thats obviously going on ebay. Other common stuff, such as bullion eagles, maples, I would go to the LCS if he gives me a fair market price. Because I was buying pandas, eagles, maples, Kooks when silver/gold was around 7-8/300s I am really no rush to sell, no even when I was buying as it broke into the early 800s-1000s. If anything, I plan on holding indefinitely and ADDING as silver and gold higher. As I have said, IF/When silver and gold break their all time historical highs, and depending on how it acts up there and how it gets there, I will be backing up the truck at those levels.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
574 Posts |
Quote: I still think people need to have "their" number. If the dollar were a fixed unit of measurement, I'd agree. I would not look for a number, but an environment.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
576 Posts |
It comes down to when you need the cash, there is a different investment that I'm looking at right now so I may end up selling off bullion and coins any time now. It's hard but in the end this is why I bought the silver in the 1st place. With care I've put away a little to take advantage of the next opportunity. The where....hmmm I'm in a smaller town so that mostly limits me to ebay. I've had some limited success on KIJIJI but you always end up with people wasting your time.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5177 Posts |
I bought most of my silver in April 2011, when it was about $45 per ounce. I basically buy when I have the spare money - that was April 2011, a few lucky dates after that (can't recall them specifically), and looking likely to happen in October this year.
I'm not sure how high must prices go for me to sell silver. Certainly at least as high as $45 per ounce - that's in 2011 dollars, so $49 today - which currently doesn't seem very likely.
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