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-Megan
Here you go: http://ronhelwig.com/blog/2012/mar/my_silver_story
I knew my friend had some gold bars. I wanted one. So I sent him a facebook message asking if he was willing to sell me one. He was pissed that I sent a facebook message considering that he wanted his gold ownership to be “off the radar.” Regardless, he sold me a 1 ounce Credit Suisse ingot for Spot.
A few days later, I sent the ingot, plus $200 in twenty-dollar bills to my friend, a gold/silver dealer in Montana. He exchanged the CS bar for 10, 1/10th ounce Kruggerands.
I don’t really consider the Kruggerands and bag of junk silver an “investment” but rather a hedge on “tail events” like hyperinflation, currency controls, etc.
The first time I decided to buy gold I didn’t know where to look. I knew I wanted something else than paper money but I didn’t know a lot about it. I was born in a “World of paper” and had no idea of what real money was. I realized that painfully when I needed to convert all my savings to a different currency and saw how much money I was loosing in the transaction. I decided at that time that I needed to have some of my saving in something that could have worked as a store of value and decided for gold and silver. After some online research I went with a reputable Company based in the UK also suggested by Peter Schiff which I trusted for his moral integrity and bought my first gold bars almost at the peak! Since then I realized that that wasn’t the peak.
My wife and I have been contacted over the phone by someone selling gold who representes some company (…………..Nevada). I will not deal with them because I dislike dealing over the phone with someone I don’t know for such a significant investment. They want to take your funds from the bank electronically and then who knows what you will receive in the mail a few weeks later!!! I like to see what I am buying before I buy!!!