BSGrinder,
Spreading the gospel of precious metals can be fun and profitable, as my following anecdotes relate. In the mean, one is also providing an educational service to people by which they could truly profit in the years ahead.
When buying my current Toyota (two years ago when car sales were booming w/o incentives), I was having some problems bargaining with the salesman, a very pleasant young fellow (for a salesman) in his early twenty's. I had a very good idea of how far the salesman could go based on my research of sale prices throughout my state, invoices and etc. We were $500.00 away from my best price and at an impasse which I had walked away from several days before. I didn't want to waste any more time making a deal and the salesman intuitively knew that, so I was disadvantaged.
Inspired, I took out a Silver Eagle 2000 and began toying with it. The salesman was intrigued, he said, "What's that?"
I said "You tell me" [my disadvantage now gone]
He didn't know what it was(!) and had to look at the lettering to know it was a silver dollar. He obviously had never seen one before!.
He said, somewhat incredulous, "Is this a Silver Dollar, do they still make these??"
I said "yes, they still make a few of these. This one was previously uncirculated, but now Liberty on the front has become my Lucky Lady. And by the way, my lucky lady says you give me my price on that SUV!!"
We signed the papers a minute later. So was that Silver Eagle worth $500 dollars? Well, of course, I could have used some other ploy to put the salesman off balance. But then again, he will never forget that Silver Eagle, and in fact the precious metals gospel was spread and I saved $500 and precious time.
I read Coin World at work some days over lunch. Folks notice the paper and want to see what their State Quarters are worth. Eventually the conversation gets around to some of the gold and silver coins. I know of quite a few Eagles and Maples purchased because of these lunch time conversations.
Spread the word, show the flag, flash the Lucky Lady, you are doing everyone a favor at this point when you do, you'll be helping them get in on the ground floor.
Speaking of which, just saw CNBC have the Arctic Oscillation, the PDO and North Atlantic Oscillation on a map on their weather segment. Everyone here got in on the ground floor on the winter forecast here a few months ago back in Sept/Oct.(thanks to me and later Joe B). Now we see it on TV, after the fact.
Best,
Roebear |
