Silver

[toowm]

With "Helicopter" Bernanke lowering the Fed Funds 50 basis points today, the dollar should head down, while gold & silver continue up. I'm not especially happy, because I'm still a net buyer of bullion; I'd prefer the price to go down for the next several years.

[penguins4me]

Zounds, closed at $13.04! Thanks, Fed, for making my FRNs in the bank even _more_ worthless. :|

I'm with toowm. No use crying over spilt milk, but I sure do wish I'd have started buying back when silver was $4/oz.

[Lloyd Danforth]

one else having problems with slow delivery from Northwest Territorial mint?

[J’raxis 270145]

one else having problems with slow delivery from Northwest Territorial mint?

When I ordered some silver from them, they told me it would be about 4–6 weeks until it was delivered. The estimated shipping date they're showing me now, in the order status website, is 2007-10-14/19, which looks about right. Slow indeed, but it's not like they're falling behind. They told me they actually fabricate the silver bars to order, so that's why it takes so long.

[toowm]

NWT took two months to ship me some junk silver. I also had a verbal agreement they did not meet.

APMEX shipped rounds the day after their 10-day clear on checks. Although they did ship with the postal service and I don't have them yet.

[J’raxis 270145]

NWT took two months to ship me some junk silver. I also had a verbal agreement they did not meet.

Junk silver?

[toowm]

Junk silver?

1964 and previous US coins that were 90% silver. You can buy them in bulk bags for a little over spot melt value.

http://www.apmex.com/Category/528/Silver_Coins_90_and_40.aspx
http://www.coinflation.com/

[J’raxis 270145]

Ah, thanks. I ordered some bars from them, which are specified as being 0.999 fine silver, so I won't have to worry about them sending me debased coins... I think...

[Lloyd Danforth]

They got my bank check on 7/13, cleared it on 7/23.  Their proposed delivery date was 8/27-8/31.  It has not arrived yet. 

[Fluff and Stuff]

NWT has always been slow.  I remember Dada talking about this around a year ago.  Anyway, there are cheaper places, like AMEX.

[Lloyd Danforth]

They got my bank check on 7/13, cleared it on 7/23.  Their proposed delivery date was 8/27-8/31.  It has not arrived yet. 

Got my silver last week.  Never again will I order anything from them.  How much can you really know about you business if you promise something in thirty days  and can't deliver it until after 90?
On the online record of my order status they removed the proposed delivery date.  It also states Actual Shipped as Oct. 12.  When I went to FedEx tracking, I see they were notified of the package on the 16th.
I will spread the word far and wide.
     

[Lloyd Danforth]

It has gone up a buck twenty somethin since i ordered it

[Michael Fisher]

The dollar is continuing its plummet. It's down another 9% this year. The market is in a huge bubble, IMO, and needs to lose a few thousand, pronto.

All five overseas mutual funds I've been watching have gone up 12-17%+ in only the past four months:

China:
FHKCX (up 14.02%)
TCWAX (up 17.19%)

Latin America:
FLATX (up 14.21%)

Southeast Asia Ex-Japan:
FSEAX (up 16.94%)

BRIC: (Brazil, Russia, India, China)
GBRAX (up 13.92%)

China:
FHKCX (up 15.54%)
TCWAX (up 26.03%)

Latin America:
FLATX (up 18.23%)

Southeast Asia Ex-Japan:
FSEAX (up 17.28%)

BRIC: (Brazil, Russia, India, China)
GBRAX (up 22.97%)

In one year:

FHKCX: Up 44.29%

TCWAX: Up 58.89%

FLATX: Up 58.55%

FSEAX: Up 54.98%

GBRAX: Up 56.42%

Just FYI. 

Since July of 2006, 15 months ago:

FHKCX: Up 94.81%

TCWAX: Up 99.96%

FLATX: Up 74.58%

FSEAX: Up 94.66%

GBRAX: Up 95.47%


Since August of 2007, two months ago:

TABRX: Up 32.89%

This frightens even me. 

[Lloyd Danforth]

They got my bank check on 7/13, cleared it on 7/23.  Their proposed delivery date was 8/27-8/31.  It has not arrived yet. 

Got my silver last week.  Never again will I order anything from them.  How much can you really know about you business if you promise something in thirty days  and can't deliver it until after 90?
On the online record of my order status they removed the proposed delivery date.  It also states Actual Shipped as Oct. 12.  When I went to FedEx tracking, I see they were notified of the package on the 16th.
I will spread the word far and wide.
     

BUMP

[Tom Sawyer]

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