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The stock is going crazy ?
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It seems to me that Costco's marketing team must be pretty good at market analysis. They've been pretty successful. That being the case, it appears that the market for gold is healthy.
I knew it would happen.
i think its a good thing and i wish them well
They went crazy b/c they declared a $15 special divy AND blew the doors off the numbers.
Makes me wonder what percentage of the gold sales are to housewives and husbands hiding money from their spouses, businesses hiding money from the government, and employees embezzling money from their employers. If a substantial percentage, Costco is in a position to increase their margins.
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Just for size reference: each pallet's worth ~ $30,000,000 so they sold about 3 pallets worth.
At what price? I hope they did not rip off the customers.
they sell them with a lower ask than the competition
The Costcoers will be shocked when they go to sell those bars and realize they will be offered well under spot. Some call it tuition ......or I suppose at the time of sale spot could be higher than now. Time will tell. RGDS!
You need a membership to see the price online
currently no gold bars in their inventory.
Well, yes I suppose, if they go to you.
But if they go elsewhere, they will do better.
I think the majority of the public who are interested in obtaining gold, see the ads for gold everywhere, and figure those sellers are shysters.
So they see Costco as at least a reputable source, and load up as much as they can.
It's a small bar and it's a small number of buyers, many of who probably are veteran coin or gold collectors.
Bars have the lowest resale value out of all PM products, well except for low grade fantasy tokens. lol THKS!
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The vintage-style silver bar market is pretty hot.
I've never offered any gold bars.
But I have made a number of different silver bars.
In the last six months, every one of them that has sold on eBay has gone for $100 to $200 per ounce:
https://ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%27carr%27+bar&_sacat=11116&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1
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Looks like about spot +50 or about 2.5% premium
Info above from CNBC
If blitzdude knew what some of DCarr’s silver 1 ozers sold for, he’d be saving for the next silver overstrike instead of farmland.
I knew it would happen.
Putting Costco's gold sales into perspective, their profit margin on those sales is less than 2%. Meanwhile, their TTM PE ratio is 60 and forward PE is over 40.
2% of $100,000,000 is $2,000,000. That can’t be bad for their P/E, although PE=60 is way high, especially for retail.
I knew it would happen.
1 oz gold maples available, limit 2
Got 2
Costco has started selling 20 coin tubes of Silver Eagles. Same deal as with the gold bars - only from their website and they sell out very fast when inventory is available.
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What's the return policy?
If gold takes a hair cut how many people will be inline with returns?
The big question, Pamp or Rand
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no bars. wait for the maples to return
No return on the gold purchases.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
Maples are there now, for $2069.99. Below spot at present.
silver eagles are back for 589.99, but they can be bought cheaper on ebay from a reputable dealer.
These seem to be lasting much longer. I’m not buying silver at present, but the tax on these make them very expensive (in CA). The thing I like about them is that they’re sealed. I tried to get a sealed tube from dealers some time ago, but was told they didn’t come sealed like this. I guess someone fibbed to me.
mint does not seal ASE tubes, only the boxes they come in. Sealing of individual ASE tubes is done by third party sellers.
Hmmm. The picture is gone now, but it looked like there was a mint seal on each tube.
My brother told me about this. Said he missed out. I said I told you guys to buy gold when it was $300 oz. He got this stupid look on his face…….well maybe his regular look.
The P/E isn't 60x and they aren't considered a pure-play retail play.
I don't follow any stocks, so I was following what RobM had said.
60 PE is high anyway.
I knew it would happen.
that's a 3rd party seal and wrapper
maples back again for members
Out of stock here.
They did have the PAMP bars earlier today and they went out of stock pretty quick. Would be interesting to know how many they sell in a batch. They had both the Lady Fortuna and the year of the dragon ones. Bars don't interest me, they had them listed at $2099.
Walmart has joined in but not at competitive prices
the items i've found on walmart.com are sold by apmex. i restricted to only sold by walmart and found none
Saw some bars back today, will wait for maples.
Costco currently has Gold Maples listed again. $2079.99 with spot at $2040. Not as good of the below spot deal a week or so back but still currently cheaper than any other retail outlet. RGDS!
i think availability must be regional because they never went OOS for me
Couple of dollars below spot if one gets their 2% rebate.
Costco currently has Rand 1 Ounce Gold bars listed for 2099, with the 2% rebate puts then right around spot.
Do gold purchases count towards exec membership CB?
bars bring lower bid prices & rand is new. you will likely get a bid of spot or +$10 for them
I've been waiting for Costco to carry the silver eagles again so I could get a picture of the seal on the tube. Here it is. You can see why I thought it might be a Mint seal, as it's labeled as such.
Here's another pic from their site. If this is done at the mint, it's something new. Their price of
$599 is a bit high.
My understanding is they sell these and are sold out immediately as stated above
gold bars heavily counterfeited, even those sealed in plastic and with assay cards. Even when a reliable product is bought from a reliable source, your future buying pool, if they know what they are doing, will likely avoid buying your gold bars no matter how legit they are.