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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 535893, member: 112&quot;]They are not having trouble getting silver or gold. There are other factors that create the delays. Everybody seems to fail to realize what happens when the economy is turned upside down. There are lots of things that come into play. It can be forced shortages of manpower because of layoffs. It can be reduced number of shifts in a day from 3 to 2 or 2 to 1. It can be cutbacks on budgets or any number of other things. All of them have an effect on the moving of one product, and it can be any product, from one place to another.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, it&#039;s not just prceious metals that people are having a hard time getting - it&#039;s everything. Something as innocuous as an order of&nbsp; hot tubs for example, what used to take 4 to 5 weeks to get - now takes 10 to 12 weeks to get. Why ? It&#039;s not that there is any shortage of hot tubs. It&#039;s for all of the reasons mentioned above plus 1 major obstacle - the shipping of it. And the same applies to all other products as well, including precious metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think for a minute - how does just about everything in this world move from 1 place to another ? It gets moved on trucks. And because there have been greatly reduced number of sales in all products across the board, there are fewer and fewer numbers of trucks moving. It&#039;s not that the trucks or&nbsp; drivers aren&#039;t out there, it&#039;s that there is nothing to put on the trucks. Trucks do not move unless and until they have a full load. They have to, they can&#039;t afford to drive with just a partial load, it just costs too much. So they sit at the loading docks and wait. That&#039;s right, they just sit there and wait until they can get can get a full load. Only then do they leave their point or origin for their destination. And this can take weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>So there is no shortage of any product out there. The problem is that nobody is buying anything. And with buyers there are no new orders, and without new orders there are no trucks moving to deliver those products. At least not as quickly as they used to.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is how an economy works, every single thing is dependant upon another from the largest to the smallest. It&#039;s like a giant ciurcular chain and any problem with a single link creates delays in every other link that comes after that single link. And once the circle is completed that delay is then passed on down the chain to all other links yet again until the delays in delivery become double, even triple what they used to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is plenty of gold and silver out there, there is a glut of it. You just can&#039;t get it from one to another in the same amount of time that you used to. So this creates what people perceive as a shortage, when no such shortage exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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