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<p>[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 66353, member: 3011"]cherrypicker,</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I bought every one of my maple leafs from Ebay. The simple rule I used was that I would pay no more than $2.50 per coin [including shipping costs] over the spot price of silver for each one. This was a maximum price, not a target price. I also only bought coins still in the original mint packaging. I think I probably paid an average of about $8.00 per coin total cost including shipping. But if silver goes to $15 per ounce the exact entry price won't matter. I haven't purchased one in over a year so I don't know what the current Ebay market conditions are like.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I probably could have paid less from some internet dealers, but I was doing this with my son and we had a pretty good time searching Ebay for the "best" deal we could find. So in my case, the time we spent together outweighed the pure economics of the purchases.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 66353, member: 3011"]cherrypicker, I think I bought every one of my maple leafs from Ebay. The simple rule I used was that I would pay no more than $2.50 per coin [including shipping costs] over the spot price of silver for each one. This was a maximum price, not a target price. I also only bought coins still in the original mint packaging. I think I probably paid an average of about $8.00 per coin total cost including shipping. But if silver goes to $15 per ounce the exact entry price won't matter. I haven't purchased one in over a year so I don't know what the current Ebay market conditions are like. I think I probably could have paid less from some internet dealers, but I was doing this with my son and we had a pretty good time searching Ebay for the "best" deal we could find. So in my case, the time we spent together outweighed the pure economics of the purchases.[/QUOTE]
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