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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1684402, member: 28199&quot;]Your question is way too simple but requires a complex answer.&nbsp; CamaroDMD provided the first part, as most people buy and sell through a third party (&quot;the middleman&quot;) who also requires a cut of the pie for his troubles, whether that&#039;s shop overhead, storage costs, shipping costs, the interest paid on the money sitting in the precious metals, or a little something for his work.&nbsp; As far as selling peer-to-peer (which I believe is what you actually propose) there are venues already mentioned that do allow you to do this.&nbsp; The big question is...who&#039;s willing to buy/sell at melt?&nbsp; Consider that most transactions, even from collector to collector, require three (that&#039;s 3) parties, unless somebody mines and refines it themselves.&nbsp; So there will always be a middle man somewhere in the transaction.&nbsp; Why are we buying PMs?&nbsp; Mostly for the speculation that it&#039;s cheap when we buy it and the price rises so we can sell at a profit.&nbsp; This is investing.&nbsp; The doomsday preppers stockpiling it for use when the world falls apart are not investing.&nbsp; And most of them are not willing to sell at any price.&nbsp; Consider buying at melt today, and then silver drops six or seven dollars an ounce.&nbsp; Are you, holding onto this, really willing to sell at melt and take a loss, or are you going to hold onto it, waiting for it to go back up?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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