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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sean Parker, post: 8322268, member: 137474&quot;]Reply to all you guys <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Heavy Metal:</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always offered 90% since day one. If they throw a fit I tell them to kick rocks. If they want to deal with grown adults throwing tantrums like children all day and get a gun stuck in their face every other time they turn around for less than 10% proffit, then more power to them. They can open a shop right next door to mine and I&#039;ll quit buying all together - I&#039;ll tell everyone that walks in my place to go over to theirs&#039;s. And just laugh when I come in one morning and see police tape over their door and them being wheeled out by the coroner. The level of entitlement is INSANE.</p><p><br /></p><p>stldanceartist:</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that song and dance very well. Since very early in my career, the only two sounds I hear when a customer comes in is the door opening and the door closing. I don&#039;t hear a word any of them say. I&#039;ve got a rolodex of canned responses in the &quot;autopilot&quot; part of my brain.</p><p><br /></p><p>baseball21:</p><p><br /></p><p>No metal of any kind is a good *investment.* Short or long term. You can either make money flipping it or, if you have the resources, you can buy a ton when spot is relatively low and squat on it for a decade or more. In the latter case, there are a zillion other things you could do with that sum of money to make a ton more in the same amount of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can dodge the penalties by not buying from and selling to businesses. Like any casino game, the math is in the house&#039;s favor. You can avoid having to be in the right place at the right time by chance: Post on craigslist or somewhere your target audience will be looking that you&#039;ll be at a certain location at a certain time. (That&#039;s how all those &#039;hotel buys&#039; that where all the rage a while back worked). If you target the right demographic, they&#039;ll show up. Buy at a price you&#039;re comfortable with. When it&#039;s time to sell them, advertise them on places like FB marketplace. Buyers will come to you. As long as you&#039;re not completely obscene with your price, the stuff will sell itself. It takes a little effort (and common sense to stay alive), but money can be made with the stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I know less than nothing about how the mints work)</p><p><br /></p><p>Heavymetal again:</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the most accurate explanation of how spot works I&#039;ve seen yet! Pure alchemy as far as I can tell! If you told me a magic 8 ball was involved, I wouldn&#039;t doubt it. Not that I take it as the gospel, but I look at Kitco for whatever they use as bid for buying and ask for selling. Whether or not it&#039;s &quot;spot&quot; on, I still make my 10ish%. Sucks when it takes a nose dive five seconds after I buy it though..</p><p><br /></p><p>Side note - does anyone remember when Platinum was $500 per troy a little while back for reasons unknown?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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