Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.
A couple folks commented about my last few posts on the price of silver, and infrequently I get a couple emails asking about it. I’m not going into the ‘why’ part about it, that’s between me and my lizard brain…but I’ll share with you the ‘how’ part.
I get my silver from this guy. Being an ‘irregular income’ kind of guy, I don’t take advantage of his his ’subscription’ plan…but if I did have a regular income, and I wanted to start stocking the stuff away, that’s the way I’d do it. No muss, no fuss, no watching the markets everyday trying to time it like a shuttle launch. Just pick a day of the month, an amount, and every month you get $x worth of gold or silver. I’d explain the dollar-cost-averaging part, but I’ll let him do it:
On the same date each month (based on your start date) your bank account, credit card or Paypal account will be billed for the amount you choose, your silver will be purchased at the current price and mailed to you by the following day. Partial ounces will be carried over to the next month. If you decide to cancel your subscription eligible remaining fractions will be repurchased by Montana Rarities.
So if you’re overseas in Afghanistan, on the road driving truck, or just darn too busy to keep track of markets and whatnot but want to start squirreling the stuff away, this is an excellent ‘fire-n-forget’ way of doing things. Set it up, pick a day, pick a metal, pick an amount of money to spend every month and you’re done.
Personally, as I said, I have an irregular income so when I’m flush, I buy, when I’m not, I don’t…so I just buy every so often when I see him. But for the guy who wants to start building up a stash without a lot of dicking around, this is a good way to go.
Is he the cheapest guy around? Well, he’s the cheapest I’ve seen here in town, and he seems to fare pretty well against many places that don’t demand you buy 50 ounces at a time. Maybe you can find a better deal elsewhere, maybe not…I’m just telling you who I use. I will say, though, that for customer service he’ll bend over backwards (or maybe forwards, depending on if you buy enough) to make sure everyone is happy with the deal. I’m not kidding, I’ve seen him make a deal to buy coins from folks, agree on a price, get the coin, and then send more money than he agreed to because the coin was nicer than he was expecting and he wanted to be fair. That’s the kinda vendor you wanna do business with…a guy who looks out for the customer’s interests as well as his own.
He’s a very honest and fair guy to do business with and, very importantly, he’s on the same page as many of us in regard to why we buy precious metals. So…he won’t think it’s weird or alarming if, like me, you’re buying because you’re worried about the end of the world and the upcoming global economic collapse. Yeah, he’s a like-minded individual.
If you wind up doing any business with him, and, really, you should, please mention that it was your buddy Zero who sent you….he’ll know who that is and maybe he’ll thank me with a couple silver halves or something.
Anyway, for those of you who asked, that’s where I get my silver from.
