Silver Sales are WAY UP! (News & Views)!(Do you Love God?)Silver Stock Reportby Jason Hommel, March 4th, 2009
Our silver is up for auction at www.seekbullion.com As the market churns through our silver, the most popular stuff will go first. But that's ok, as we will use your preferences to teach us to always produce more of the best sellers. Tuesday was a big day for silver: 1. It was our first day honoring the Lord with our hard hitting overtly Christian rounds that ask "Do you Love God?". It continues and says, "God says to use Honest Weights and Measures" "This is 1 troy oz. .999 fine silver", and quotes Leviticus 19:35 on the back: "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in metyard, in weight or in measure". I have a little story behind this round. About 9 years ago
now I attended a large Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park,
California. Every week, the message was "Jesus Loves
You". I began to feel bad about that, because I felt like that
was half the gospel. It's our response that matters. I began
crying, literal tears on my cheeks, in Church, as I was silently praying
fervently for the Lord to send his angels to do something. I felt
like I could not communicate my concern to the Church, because "Who would
listen to me?" as I was an outsider. I felt like I was in the
Laodician Church of the lukewarm. It was disturbing to me, and I
didn't know what to do but pray and leave it in God's hands. But in
a few weeks, my prayer was answered. The pastor spoke as if he felt
a message came from God pressing on his heart, and he preached the same
message; that he felt as if his Church was too much like the lukewarm
Church of Revelation 3, and he preached this very message, "How much do
you love the Lord"? It was a great sermon, and I suppose it's taken
me this long to find my voice for the same message. It's a powerful
message. 3. Silver Manipulation and CFTC incompetence hits Prime
Time: Get the CFTC "appreciation" medallions to commemorate the news coverage of this historic incompetence. 4. Also, Jim Cramer from Mad Money said "buy silver". Admittedly, his timing is better than mine, as I was 9 years too early, but he's so late to the party that his actual advice can be catastrophic. From: Quote: Cramer likes the iShares Silver Trust as the best silver investment. Quote: Coins often get marked up 15% to 30%, but people compelled to buy them should look to the Canadian Maple Leaf and U.S. American Eagle, sold at these countries’ respective Mints. I replied to the show: MadMoneyReplies@NBCUNI.COM, madmoney@cnbc.com, madcap@cnbc.com Thank you for recommending SILVER. Regarding the ETF. I know all the top 5 silver experts in the U.S.: Ted Butler, David Morgan, Sean Rakhimov, David Bond, Charlie Savoie, and about 5 more guys. All of them note serious problems with the silver ETF, such as, they allow naked shorting of the ETF, which thwarts the theory of 100% silver backing. J.P. Morgan is the key custodian of the silver for the ETF, and J.P. Morgan is the bank in the U.S. with the largest derivatives book about $80 trillion, which is hurting everyone, and J.P. Morgan has also been identified as the key bank that has a huge short position in COMEX silver futures, which is clearly a conflict of interest. See more here: Regarding coins. You are right that silver coinage costs up to 15-30% over the bullion price. That's because silver is so cheap, so you are right to recommend silver. In the depression in the 1930's, silver was 29 cents per oz., and the U.S. government turned 1 oz. of silver into 14 silver dimes, worth $1.40, which was a substantial markup, called seniorage, which was about 500%, which was much more than today, showing that today's markup is cheap by comparison. I've actually minted over 300,000 oz. of silver in the last year. The mints that charge 50 cents per oz. to mint it are backlogged, with bad excuses, and are likely charging too little, and floating on customer money, as they could not mint silver even after 8 weeks time. Mints that charge $1.25/oz. over spot can mint on time. Other costs are .20/oz. to acquire silver bars, .15 to ship to the customer, .20 for packaging and labor, .10 for auction site listing fees, .25 to cover price variations and/or be the profit, plus about .20 to design a coin and produce the dies, which brings the total price to about $2.55 over spot, which is cheaper than the U.S. Mint can mint silver. I have to charge $2.75 in a rising or volatile market, to prevent losses in the event that silver moves up 25 cents per day. Other risks are default by the person who sells the silver bars, default by the mints, loss in transit from the refiner to the mint, loss in transit from the mint to me, and loss in transit from me to the customer. All of those default risks also add to the price by way of forcing me to earn "something" for the risk. But the much bigger risk in the coin market is not the 15-30% premiums. The big risk is ordering from customers and companies that are bankrupt, like the mint that cannot mint silver even after 8 weeks, or the coin dealer who says delivery is 4 months out from his supplier. That's why you want silver, to protect against such defaults, or failure to deliver. The ETF is not immune from such failures to deliver, and is technically not "silver". Sincerely, Jason Hommel =========== People may be wondering what machines it takes to make silver rounds these days: Crucibles, extrusion machines or continuous casters, rolling mills, annealing ovens, punchers, rimmers, burnishers, stampers, wrappers, etc. None of that includes the die making process, and machine shop machines needed to keep it all running. See a 5 minute video on making silver rounds, here: http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1236063000.php ===========
Here's what happened: Ebay links are often "spoofed". In other words, the scam is that you get an email pretending to be from ebay, and it's not ebay. Or a link that appears to send you to ebay does not send you to ebay, but another site, where they create a "false" ebay site, to try to scam you. My email provider tracks the clicks on the links, and thus, they "re-work" the links behind the scenes, using cookies. That was misinterpreted by many spam filters as a "Trojan" virus, aptly named, because what looks like something, is really something else. But there is no virus. My email provider is good, they are a public company, working with 100,000 or more email lists. The trouble is with the virus detectors, they are "overzealous". Nothing in my email can harm your computer. As always, never click on attachments from "suspect" sources. ========
A more astute reader wrote: I recently purchased a "5 oz silver round" on EBay. When it arrived it was not silver. Not sure what it was, but its density seems to imply silver-plated zinc or nickel. I got my money back, including all return postage costs and I reported the seller to EBAY, along with several other people whom I contacted. We also reported him to USPSP for mail fraud. However, there were a lot of people giving this guy (tikkara1) positive feedback on EBay with comments implying that they did not know what they were getting or think to weigh the bars and rounds. All the "silver" in question had Chinese character printed on it. Counterfeit silver, or more accurately "bogus silver", is definitely being produced in China and is finding its way into the US market. No experienced silver purchaser or vendor would be fooled (and that surely includes all your subscribers), but if silver takes off as we all expect then lots of neophytes will get in on it and some will be fooled. It would not be a bad idea to publicize this so that other are aware of what happens and can alter their less experience acquaintances.
I just got the best bit of customer feedback, you can't make this stuff
up: Date: Mar. 03, 2009 17:55:03 | Type: sale | From: poorpaul (1) |
Auction ID: 102158 | [ Details ] I give this honor to the Lord, for teaching me what I needed to know about freedom and honesty first, over the course of many years, so that I could apply principles of honesty to my business.
Jason Hommel |