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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 444008, member: 13650&quot;]Hate to say it but I&#039;ll defend the mint on this one.&nbsp; The metals markets are so volatile lately that you don&#039;t know what it&#039;s going to be a week from now.&nbsp; Much less in a month.&nbsp; You don&#039;t know when they purchased their raw stock. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Who has more risk of losing the most?&nbsp; The consumer buying one or two gold coins for a little over spot or the mint selling thousands of them for less than they purchased their inventory at?&nbsp; I&#039;m sure they are trying to stay comfortably in the black out of necessity.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If somebody feels the prices are too high, than just wait.&nbsp; The stuff will be out on ebay, slabbed, within a year and then you can probably buy it at less than issue price, if gold maintains or goes down.&nbsp; If it goes up, than their prices aren&#039;t too high right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I agree, it would be great if their prices were electronically linked and adjusted by spot price daily, but apparently, that is not possible.&nbsp; You aren&#039;t buying raw, unrefined, bullion.&nbsp;&nbsp; In a year or two, we may realize we should have been thankful for these prices.&nbsp; Who knows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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