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▲ 12 r/freedomgold+2 crossposts

Value of the stack

So as a newbie who got into "precious" metals less than a year ago at 25yrs old I wanted to share a few takeaways and lessons learned I had after throwing the entire stack into my ounces this morning.

  1. Screw each and every single one of you that would downvote me when I mentioned that I would buy gold jewelry. As I said time and time again Gold is Gold and I buy most of my jewelry under melt. And I can already hear, "But good luck selling it, with bullion you'll always have a buyer", ahh yes I love getting 93% of melt for bullion from my LCS 😒 Don't worry I'll pass down the jewelry before I ever sell it at a loss. Also Idk if yall know this but a map torch is $80 at home depot, so even if the finished jewelry doesnt sell for 10% above melt down the road, I'll fire up the torch and make my own bars.

  2. Good job not buying silver at an all time high but don't buy it on the "downtrend" either. When I did want to get into silver it was at the height of $120 an oz, I held off cause I knew that wasn't realistic in contrast to everyone who was hyping it up "Silver to $150". I started buying at $86 and most recently at $58 an oz, and I'm not gonna buy for atleast the next 2 months out of curiosity of a correction, aka silver crashing back to the $30s.

  3. Buy only the lowest premium gold and silver using tools such as findbullionprices.com, taking advantage of the 1st customer and at spot deals. Also my 2 most used sites lately have been Monument Metals and Mintbuilder, even if it does take Mintbuilder 3 weeks to fulfill orders you cant get better than at spot for gold bullion. Props to Mintbuilder they did listen to customer feedback and added the 1gram bars at spot with a max of 20. I'm not shilling for them I just like their prices and customer service.

  4. If you look at the gold breakdown, not counting the 14k earings that I bought at retail from Costco, the only thing in the red right now is the bullion I bought at retail, my jewelry stack is "sitting pretty" for lack of a better term. I know I'll be fine holding the bullion for the long term 15-25yrs down the line, but it warms that cold barren place in my chest to be in the green right now, not 15yrs down the line.

  5. So in conclusion I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing, ( lowballing recently separated milfs on Fb marketplace :) I'm joking I buy at 85-88% of melt when my local pawn shop buys at 70% and my local coin shop buys jewelry at 75%. And keep buying all the at spot gold bullion from MB I can afford, and eventually dip back into silver if I don't trade my stack to gold before I start buying again. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk and I look forward to all the hate comments 😊🤣

u/Don_Ahiskali — 3 months ago

Value of the stack 😑

So as a newbie who got into "precious" metals less than a year ago at 25yrs old I wanted to share a few takeaways and lessons learned I had after throwing the entire stack into my ounces this morning.

  1. Fuck each and every single one of you that would downvote me when I mentioned that I would buy gold jewelry. As I said time and time again Gold is Gold and I buy most of my jewelry under melt. And I can already hear, "But good luck selling it, with bullion you'll always have a buyer", ahh yes I love getting 93% of melt for bullion from my LCS 😒 Don't worry I'll pass down the jewelry before I ever sell it at a loss. Also Idk if yall know this but a map torch is $80 at home depot, so even if the finished jewelry doesnt sell for 10% above melt down the road, I'll fire up the torch and make my own bars.

  2. Good job not buying silver at an all time high but don't buy it on the "downtrend" either. When I did want to get into silver it was at the height of $120 an oz, I held off cause I knew that wasn't realistic in contrast to everyone who was hyping it up "Silver to $150". I started buying at $86 and most recently at $58 an oz, and I'm not gonna buy for atleast the next 2 months out of curiosity of a correction, aka silver crashing back to the $30s.

  3. Buy only the lowest premium gold and silver using tools such as findbullionprices.com, taking advantage of the 1st customer and at spot deals. Also my 2 most used sites lately have been Monument Metals and Mintbuilder, even if it does take Mintbuilder 3 weeks to fulfill orders you cant get better than at spot for gold bullion. Props to Mintbuilder they did listen to customer feedback and added the 1gram bars at spot with a max of 20. I'm not shilling for them I just like their prices and customer service.

  4. If you look at the gold breakdown, not counting the 14k earings that I bought at retail from Costco, the only thing in the red right now is the bullion I bought at retail, my jewelry stack is "sitting pretty" for lack of a better term. I know I'll be fine holding the bullion for the long term 15-25yrs down the line, but it warms that cold barren place in my chest to be in the green right now, not 15yrs down the line.

  5. So in conclusion I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing, ( lowballing recently separated milfs on Fb marketplace :) I'm joking I buy at 85-88% of melt when my local pawn shop buys at 70% and my local coin shop buys jewelry at 75%. And keep buying all the at spot gold bullion from MB I can afford, and eventually dip back into silver if I don't trade my stack to gold before I start buying again. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk and I look forward to all the hate comments 😊🤣

u/Don_Ahiskali — 3 months ago

Mintbuilder Honest 1st Experience...

I wanted to give my 2 cents on buying from MB, yes they are legit however I placed 2 orders, 1st on june 7th and 2nd on june 10th, 3 weeks go by and on the 21st my orders have not shipped. They were both in the "Being prepared" stage for about a week, so on the 21st I reach out to em on reddit, send my order #'s and to my surprise I got a prompt response same day saying they would ship both orders next day, the 22nd. Well once they actually shipped em it took usps 4 days to get em to me, I received both orders last night. Now have I had that same delay or experience when Ive bought from Monument Metals, money metals, bullion exchanges, bullion standard or even apmex... no I usually receive my orders in hand 2 weeks from date of purchase, Monument being the best at usually 10 days. However you cannot beat the consistent 0-$2 premiums that MB has. Ive got 2 more orders from em when silver dropped to the high 50s last week, lets see if my luck improves with the shipping times... Also the slight toning on the 2013 in the center is kinda growing on me.

u/Don_Ahiskali — 4 months ago
▲ 10 r/NFA

Firstly the build is as follows: Mke AP5, UTG monolithic rail, vortex dot, SB side folder, ASD Arc fire complete lower, and a rearden SPB at the muzzle as this model of ap5 didnt come with tri-lug, and a Rex Silentium MG10. Now the reason for the post, I need a titanium 9mm sub gun suppressor that is Hub mountable, preferably under 1k... I'm very satisfied with the Rex can for its sound performance, its just that I kind of want something that isnt 18+ ounces and 8 1/2 in in length. The milkman from OCL is on my short list but I've heard multiple people say they bought into the hype and the sound performance isnt that great, I'll have to hear it in person before I decide to get one. The AB f4l would have been perfect but its not HUB, and I know I can take my muzzle device off but I shoot steel matches with it so I dont want to do that. Looking for something with good sound performance and Ti construction, I dont need reduced gas blowback BS. Any recommendations fitting above criteria would be immensely appreciated.

u/Don_Ahiskali — 5 months ago