Worldwide Silver Shortage Pushes Premiums On Silver Eagle Coins to 40%

By: Jason_Hamlin

COMEX silver prices once again dipped below $23 today. My previous article entitled Ignore COMEX Pricing – Silver Eagles Sold Out at Dealers, $33 on Ebay detailed just how divorced from reality the COMEX price has become. So with another dip today, I decided to try to get my hands on some more silver coins. I realized before I picked up the phone that it would be difficult, but I have a few dealers in Colorado and California that have consistently been able to find supply at reasonable premiums.

Not anymore. The first phone call that I made was to one of the largest bullion dealers in Southern California, where I have bought a good deal of my physical gold and silver over the past decade. In fact, I had just bought several rolls of silver eagle coins from them last month at around $2.65 over spot price per ounce. I also purchased some for a family member back in January and paid the same premium.

In the past when some analysts were talking about a supply shortage and rising premiums, I was always able to find supply from this particular shop with a reasonable premium that was never more than 10% over the spot price. But today I was told that I could only order for future delivery at some point in late May or June and that the premium was $5 over the spot price.

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Silver Update 20-4-13 Silver Shortage BrotherJohnF

An update from BrotherjohnF regarding the recent drop in metals pricing and shortages. He is very experienced with the markets and delivers his points clearly without much hyperbole.
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An Unprecedented Rush to Gold & Silver Bullion causes Shortages Worldwide

The shake out of ETFs and futures has left the Australian mint short of deliverables and Japanese and Chinese gold retailers seeing a “frenzied” surge in demand. The customers are not just the ‘rich’ or ‘elderly’; in China “they tend to wear water shoes and come directly from the market…;” in Australia, “the volume of business… is way in excess of double what we did last week,… there’s been people running through the gate,” and Japanese individual investors doubled gold purchases yesterday at Tokuriki Honten, the country’s second-largest retailer of the precious metal.
 
For bullion-buyers, this also introduces an additional variable to consider in looking for a source for your bullion: availability.


I certainly see the current situation as a "buying opportunity" for investors. Indeed, had I not used-up the remainder of my bullion-buying dollars (for the time being) at the beginning of September I would definitely be a buyer myself at the present time.

Higher premiums appear to be the "necessary evil" which those of us who want REAL bullion have to live with - unless you happen to live in a "bullion supermarket" like India. As people grudgingly pay these higher premiums, I remind people to consider how those "high premiums" will look a couple of years from now, when silver is likely MULTIPLES of the current price.

Given the choice between paying silver's (real) "fair market price" today (and getting low premiums on those purchases), or buying silver at a fraction of its real value, but getting "squeezed" for an extra dollar or two an ounce, it is obvious what is better for investors.
   

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Many Online retailers Are reporting significant Shortages in Silver Bullion

Many other online retailers, however, are reporting significant shortages. So much so that some are being forced to cancel customer orders because there is simply no inventory, especially as it pertains to silver.
A subscriber alert from Future Money Trends indicated that the shortage is quickly becoming more widespread:

Several bullion dealers are reporting low or no inventory, others are just outright overcharging their customers. Wholesale dealers are also reporting they are out of several products including the American Eagle.
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“…there is basically a silver shortage right now. Dealers are starting to run out of products and delay the shipping times.” David Smoler, DBS Coins
Here is a message from my good friend who works in the bullion industry when I asked him if there were real shortages happening.
“Across the board, sold out. Delivery delays up to 4-6 weeks, premium rising. Friday was our busiest day ever; until today. Which was much busier.” Andy Hoffman, Miles Franklin

- in etfdailynews  : http://etfdailynews.com/2013/04/17/precious-metals-retailer-says-they-have-been-experiencing-astounding-volume/

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People running through the gate to buy Gold Bullion

There are reports of very strong demand for coins and bars from buyers internationally who believe that the sell off that saw gold fall to a two-year low is overdone.

Very significant demand is being seen throughout the world for physical bullion – in Japan, India, Australia, the U.S., Europe and elsewhere.  The speculative raid by one or two banks which led to the price crash is being seen as a gift by eager buyers internationally.
Gold sales from Australia’s Perth Mint, which refines nearly all of the nation’s bullion, surged after prices plunged, adding to signs that gold’s slump to a two-year low is spurring increased demand.
“The volume of business that we’re putting through is way in excess of double what we did last week,” Treasurer Nigel Moffatt said by phone, without giving precise figures. “There’s been people running through the gate.”
The Perth Mint’s sales of gold coins climbed 49% to 97,541 ounces in the three months ended March 31 from a year earlier, according to data from the facility in Western Australia that was founded in 1899.

- in http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2013/04/17/people-running-through-the-gate-to-buy-gold-bullio?ref=hp&t=precious-metals&page=2





MAKE SURE YOU GET PHYSICAL SILVER IN YOUR OWN POSSESSION. Don't Buy SLV, or Futures or Pooled Accounts or any other BS paper silver product .Remember anything on paper is worth the paper it is written on. Go Long Stay long the bull market have even started yet