No no sales tax bit sounds sketch because everyone is charging sales tax now if your state has sales tax on bullion. Have you personally done business with them? I've done done business with Apmex, Provident Metals, and JM Bullion. There are other trustworthy sites, but those are my preferred.
Silver is getting cheaper because new veins and processing methods are always being advanced, it will probably continue climbing down
That's because prices have been very high this year AND because the 2020s are expected to see a large expansion in industrial demand for silver. It's a continual cycle, the same with the price of gold and especially other metals like copper.
An interesting tidbit about ebay in the event you do get scammed (PM's or otherwise), you can always, no questions asked(within 30 days), refund a purchase. They are 100% about buyer protection to the point were even non scam items are treated in this manor, regardless of the sellers "return policy".
Sell your stocks and invest in copper. No seriously, keep your copper around since if the apocalypse really did hit, you'd be wanting it. Copper might have some interesting price swings these next few years since Chile produces 25-30% of the world's copper and "elected" a Reddit-tier commie type as president meaning environmental restrictions and bureaucratic bloat plus wage rises might increase the price of copper by a good deal. Peru (15% of global copper production) has a similar president but he's apparently following the kinda-leftist path the guys before him did.
Doesn't copper have a shelf life though? It's further up the table then gold and silver. Which means it's reactive and binds with Oxygen over time. Most people don't have vaccume chambers to keep their copper bars in. Even in Ye Olden Times copper was considered pretty worthless as a store of value.
It forms a patina, but that's if you keep it outside. Assuming you control the humidity in your house and don't touch it with your bare hands, it would probably last many years in a decent state. You could probably purify it in a fire since copper can be worked with if you heat it up.
Not entirely true, if you want to die a cripple or lunatic, you mix it with arsenic instead to make it hard and reliable. Back in the day they usually did this by mixing ores to find one with a decent copper content, but nowadays industrial copper is too pure so you have to mix the arsenic in. I recommend realgar, it has pretty red crystals and the Chinese believe it protects against disease and shit. Can't be too bad for you, right? Maybe make an amulet and sell it in Chinatown, I dunno.
Was tempted to buy like 2-3K in PM the other day, didn't for various reasons, now I'm kind of pissed. Right now the money to be made is probably in mining companies since high gold/silver means they'll be looking for opportunities. Hopefully it'll drop 1-2 dollars in the next few months before things go totally haywire but I'm not counting on that.
Lakes are magnets for many things; precious metals, firearms, glowies.
I'm willing to be that's a trap anyway.
I just want a solid gold bar
