By Paul Stramer
The new and much larger minting company has multiple facilities around the country including in Indiana, California and Nevada.
I now have a good working relationship with the new company and am making even more announcements about the improved way we are doing this business. Here are some of the things that are changing for the better for you, our customers.
1. The old 500 ounce minimum order is gone. The new minimum order is now 60 ounces.
2. They will be very competitive in their price structure, and right now we are offering a price plan based on the volume of metal in each order. See below.
3. The shipping will be faster, and the wait time will be less than it was. Each order will be shipped with full insurance. I made my first 3 orders and all those orders arrived here for local customers and our stock. The total time from order to arrival was just 12 days for those orders. Since then we have had several large orders go out and be delivered within 2 weeks.
Within a few weeks we will have the ability to place orders with the mint on line, and we just were told they now have a stock of this divisible round stamped ahead of any orders. That will reduce the lead time to just a few days.
These will be shipped from Indiana or Nevada depending on where the order is going, by UPS Ground, fully insured.
We will still be accepting wire transfers, or cashiers checks like always.
We can only lock an order after we have received the funds. Here is the formula we use to figure your price.
Go to this link on Kitco.com and look up the ask price of silver. https://www.kitco.com/price/precious-metals
It's in the first table on that page.
For a 60 oz. to 99 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.95 for the strike fee at the mint, and our profit per ounce.
For a 100 oz. to 199 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.75.
For a 200 oz. to 299 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.50.
For a 300 oz. order and larger, take the ask price and add $3.25.
All orders over 300 ounces will be the same $3.25 over spot ask price.
Take that number times the number of ounces (100 or over) and then add $25.00 for each 100 ounce box for shipping.
Once we have your funds we will run this same formula to finalize the price with shipping.
Be sure to call us when you are ready to order so we can answer your questions.
When you call I will get your email address and send you the bank info for wire transfers or the mailing info for your payment. You can then reply with your shipping address.
If you have any questions here is my contact info.
Office phone 406 889 3183 8 AM to 2 PM and 4PM to 6 PM weekdays.
Cell 406 253 4257 when I am not in the office. Try the Office line first.
pstramer@gmail.com or pstramer@eurekadsl.net
Thanks for your support over the years. We are now open and taking orders.
Paul Stramer
S.A.G.
