Midwest Refineries conversion complete!
Weiss
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Here's the Midwest Refineries start to finish.
Mid-April I sent a pile of .999 silver filings & mismatched and broken sterling jewelry, and a tiny bit of similar junk gold jewelry to Midwest:
April 25th I got their payment of $309--within about 5% of what I was expecting:
My dealer was closed all last week. When I stopped by Tuesday, he had nothing. Completely wiped out of gold and silver.
I stopped by again this morning only to have him tied up in a phone call. Left empty handed. Came back this afternoon and as soon as I walked in the door he said "I've got everything". And he wasn't lying. All the 90% you could want, some fractional gold bars, coins, everything. Luckily the market dropped from Tuesday to today.
Checked the hopper of dimes. Meh. Later roosies. Similar story for the quarters. 1960s washingtons. Pass. Asked about halves and he hands me a big bag "I think you'll like these" he said with a grin. A mix of early frankies and solid walkers. He let me have my pick for 30x face.
The beauty of this conversion is that price is kind of irrelevant. I exchanged horrible junky crap, a fair amount of which I literally found, the balance shavings from generic rounds I'd bought when silver was $8 an ounce, for a roll of early and/or XF walkers:
Thoughts? Thumbs up or down?
Mid-April I sent a pile of .999 silver filings & mismatched and broken sterling jewelry, and a tiny bit of similar junk gold jewelry to Midwest:
April 25th I got their payment of $309--within about 5% of what I was expecting:
My dealer was closed all last week. When I stopped by Tuesday, he had nothing. Completely wiped out of gold and silver.
I stopped by again this morning only to have him tied up in a phone call. Left empty handed. Came back this afternoon and as soon as I walked in the door he said "I've got everything". And he wasn't lying. All the 90% you could want, some fractional gold bars, coins, everything. Luckily the market dropped from Tuesday to today.
Checked the hopper of dimes. Meh. Later roosies. Similar story for the quarters. 1960s washingtons. Pass. Asked about halves and he hands me a big bag "I think you'll like these" he said with a grin. A mix of early frankies and solid walkers. He let me have my pick for 30x face.
The beauty of this conversion is that price is kind of irrelevant. I exchanged horrible junky crap, a fair amount of which I literally found, the balance shavings from generic rounds I'd bought when silver was $8 an ounce, for a roll of early and/or XF walkers:
Thoughts? Thumbs up or down?
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
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In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
even better than your last convertion of generic silver for premium silver.
Groucho Marx
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
Ya did gud.
bob