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    If anyone looked at the price of silver lately that tanked too. I got 15 pounds of it i was gonna get rid of for like $4k. to help pay my girlfriends car off. now i'd be lucky to get half that.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries View Post
    If anyone looked at the price of silver lately that tanked too. I got 15 pounds of it i was gonna get rid of for like $4k. to help pay my girlfriends car off. now i'd be lucky to get half that.
    Fifteen pounds is quite a lot.

    Regardless, this probably isn't the time to sell. Be patient. Ewasted was right. Gold is on a run right now. My guess would be that silver won't be too far behind. It's a good hedge against currency inflation.

    Maybe check out the ten year historical charts at Kitco ? That could give you a rough idea of what it might possibly increase to per ounce.

    Wait on paying off the loan if you possibly can. Pay them back with inflated/devalued/debased dollars. The two trillion the fed recently created is going to devalue the heck out of the currency.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries View Post
    If anyone looked at the price of silver lately that tanked too. I got 15 pounds of it i was gonna get rid of for like $4k. to help pay my girlfriends car off. now i'd be lucky to get half that.

    Physical silver? Dang... I bet you could get pretty close. There's a HUGE premium right now for physical silver. There are simply no sellers right now.

    That's too big a dollar figure for me to deal with the unknowns/shipping/sight unseen/ etc but if you were in Dallas area, I'd be PMing you to meet right now!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by auminer View Post
    Physical silver? Dang... I bet you could get pretty close. There's a HUGE premium right now for physical silver. There are simply no sellers right now.

    That's too big a dollar figure for me to deal with the unknowns/shipping/sight unseen/ etc but if you were in Dallas area, I'd be PMing you to meet right now!!!
    thank you all for the advice. I'd rather not sell it if prices are low. but the jewelry shops ya'll mentioned might be something to look into. Its actually a 15 pound (as weighed out on the copper scale so +or- a pound or so) bar with 99.9Ag on it. I saw prices used to be up in the high $40/once range back a few years ago. that would have been sweet to turn this thing in then. I could probably buy land and open up my own shop if I had that kinda money. As for now I guess I'll just try and get enough welding jobs and hope I can save up enough to pay back the loan before the lender defaults it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries View Post
    If anyone looked at the price of silver lately that tanked too. I got 15 pounds of it i was gonna get rid of for like $4k. to help pay my girlfriends car off. now i'd be lucky to get half that.
    I am a member of the Kitco board and I have seen a post there of someone selling on CL or FB and asking $17 and getting buyers. If you do decide to do this, I would sell in bite sized chunks someplace safe. I have heard there are huge premiums at coin shops which is basically the same as selling the silver at a higher price.

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