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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kookoox10, post: 1561342, member: 31129&quot;]I just had a similar conversation with a local B&amp;M buddy and he quoted it like this; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The ASEs I receive don&#039;t come directly from the mint, they go from the mint to the distributors and from the distributors to me.&nbsp; The way it goes right now, the mint doesn&#039;t sell these at melt to the consumer, there&#039;s always some sort of premium they charge to make a profit.&nbsp; So the price I pay from the distributors is always a lot more than what I would like to spend.&nbsp; And as a retailer, I have to put my markup on them to make money to run the store.&nbsp; Sometimes, all the added &quot;middlemen&quot; makes it difficult to turn any profit on BU or Proof ASEs.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say, myself and the other customer proceeded to look at the junk silver and collectible slabbed stuff.&nbsp; Sometimes the actual market fluctuation has little to do how on how much a dealer sells ASEs for, the simple addition of a &quot;distributor&quot; makes this dealer&#039;s silver bullion priced a lot higher than some others who can order direct from the mint.&nbsp; The $42 per 2012 BU ASE was way too much to spend from him, my other B&amp;M has these for $5 less.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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