[ponygirl]

The lesson to learn is always take possession of any precious metals you buy. I learned the hard way with a company that was selling online and offering to store the metals for free. For the first three years I bought from them, I would have metals shipped to me and they always delivered beautiful product, but the shipping fee was $25 no matter how few coins I bought. After a while, I decided to purchase small batches of silver rounds (a couple per month) with the intention of trading all of them for gold once I had enough. They had always delivered, so it seemed safe, right? By the time I had enough to exchange and deliver, they had been arrested for not delivering. I lost all the rounds that probably had never existed in the year I had been storing them.

Now I buy from Provident, which gives you free shipping for orders over $300, and smaller orders can be shipped for $10. I am also going to start looking at APMEX once they have product to buy again.

[meyer]

Re: Post 1344, was that dealer Tulving by chance?

I used to buy from them, but they did run into an issue. Fortunately, I lost nothing.

[smileyface]

APMEX provides excellent service. Free shipping over 5o or 100. If they short a coin, or is not silver in an order, they just send an additional one, no questions asked.