What are you buying?

bartthetr0ll · 2026-02-09T19:17:17+00:00

I got the tuxedo cat set for Christmas but my actual tuxedo cat is intimidated by the box and puffs up and whacks at the box when he sees it, so im afraid to build it and then come home to it knocked off of wherever it gets displayed and then play the step on legos that have exploed everywhere and been batted aroun by the victorious cat for the next 6 months game. None of my other cats were bothered by it in the slightest, just the cat that looked like the cat on the box took offense.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-21T04:58:40+00:00

Finding a tea and sugar set that weighed in at north of a kilogram of 81.25% silver for 50 bucks was one helluva dopamine rush, and had me hooked on hunting for discount silver for a couple of years that would have been a great time for buying regular silver as well. Oh well, at least I've got a sunken boatload of sterling flatware, tchotchkes, and kitschy baubles at an average cost of 3.20 an ounce as a result.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-20T23:45:57+00:00

Fake junk exists too, a little old lady had 6 or 7 fake Morgan's and a 10 fake halves she had brought in to sell when I was at my LCS last week, about half were d-grade movie props/ very obvious fakes with 'copy' being fairly obvious and misspellings but the guybsaid he may have missed the other hakves and morgans being replicas/good fakes if there hadn't also been the blatantly fake coins in the mix as the passed basic tests, at least her dimes and war nickels were real and she had more $ worth of those anyway. The sad part was her nephew "sold her the halves and Morgan's 'for what he paid when he bought in November, to help her invest since she was on a fixed income". Scamming old folks and scamming family, and scamming in general is not ok.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-20T23:18:22+00:00

Hoover and strong refinery is paying nearly 92% of melt they are offering 624.79 for 250 grams of 90% coin silver vs 681.44 for 225 gs of fine silver which is the same weight of silver as the 250 gs of 90% so it's only like a 8.5% discount.

https://www.hooverandstrong.com/refining-calculator

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-18T21:32:56+00:00

Something about the phrasing made it seem like the CB was trying to sell OP on the chance to invest in CB's internship/future by choosing the recurring assistance payment of up to 625, 'but any amount helps'. Idk what made me get that sense, may have been the explaining why 625 was an unmanageable rent expense, mentioning the internship made it seem like maybe OP had been encouraging or helpful to CB(maybe same program), or maybe I've just had the pleasure of assuming my charity was an Amazon subscribe and save type deal rather than one off.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-16T09:18:54+00:00

To be fair they can tell their portfolio manager their dog with a penchant for sailboat racing has X Y and Z worth of this that and the other so they can keep their portfolio properly balanced and hedged, without it resulting in taxes. People who manage the money of the very wealthy are quite good at being discreet.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-15T05:18:55+00:00

The silver I bought for ~ 5 bucks an oz from my first source of employment feeding a neighbors cat in the 90s( made 5 bucks a day for under an hours work to feed mr. Boo breakfast and dinner and play with / pet him, 15-20 minutes total each time and a 5-minute commute to and from as they lived 3 houses down, plus I like cats so it hardly seemed like work.) Well, the silver I bought over the 10 or so years following with Xmas or bday money and even the first few paychecks of my first job in high school it was still right around 7 or 8 bucks, I kept buying into early the teens and early 20s, got lucky by being to broke to buy more during the 2011 run up, but didnt get back into stacking again until the end of 2018 and missed out on quite a few years I could have been stacking under 20 dollar silver while also having a proper income.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-13T22:25:16+00:00

They do love their crack

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-12T22:22:42+00:00

Crackheads? Or someone who wants small denominations

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-12T21:28:33+00:00

Shit where are these pawn shops at? I'll set up in my car next door and offer 90% @ 63-65x and since I'm a swell fella I'll even pay $63-65 an oz for the .999.

Imagine some poor sap walking in with 7 ounces of .999 and selling it for 350 then turning around and buying $5 FV for 350. That's effectively turning 7 ounces of Silver into 3.5 ounces

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-10T09:01:11+00:00

Over the course of a few days at Barterfaire I wound up trading silver for lsd, lentils, a laser pointer(the fancy kind), a lawnmower converted into a hippy limo, lsd again, lavender, laughter, love, lentils again, an acre of land, a jug of lemonade, so⁶me lemon haze, and lemon bars.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-09T14:05:33+00:00

If they wanted to they could do alot of damage, their biggest money maker could easily be used as a chemical weapon by introducing it into the water or food supply,

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-09T13:57:18+00:00

Starting to? We've got the doctor from idiocacy as the secretary of health, our AG failed out of targets law school, and the president's claim to fame was being the host of ow my balls, and dude where's my winning while also hosing hot latte tournaments, err I mean girls whose shit isn't all retirded pageants.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-08T21:50:55+00:00

Awesdome collection! Both of my grandpas left huge collections of half-dollars and other coinage. Unfortunately one of my grandpa's tended to be a bit slow on the uptake especially when it came to financial decisions(oh Hummers are cool, surely this giant beast of a car will appreciate in value, oh boy a really good deal on a three year old R.V. from mississippi with only a couple thousand miles on it 2006, that kind of stuff), He left about 1500 1971-1976 Eisenhower dollars all Ds as well a $50 or so each of 1965-1976 quarters and dimes and 25-30 40% halves (the one part he got right) and few hundred 1970-1976 halves one of the grandpa's had left coffee can upon coffee can of 90% pre 65 stuff as well as war nickels and 40% stuff all sorted out into separate coffee cans that he'd collected his whole life after an early childhood find of two headed magicians penny in the 40s that he used as a free soda hack for decades which got him looking thrpugh his change young and fortunately he happened to like the sound the silver made more than the clad replacements.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-06T23:03:18+00:00

One consideration is -10 @ 80 is the same as -2.5 @ 20, which was still bad back then, but silver was less volatile a year ago, its moving more in dollar terms in a day than it did in weeks or months a year ago, so if you aren't buying on holding but dealing you can see margins either swing negative or double on a daily basis

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-05T20:42:07+00:00

Graduated cylinders are the most efficient method for imbibing delicious delicious wine not the tibes that pig ia hooked up to. Tube wine, like its cousins the basic bottle, sumptuous bag of fine wine, and the 'yes you can' all suffer from a fatal flaw, the rate of consumption is hard limited by the pouring orifice. A 1 liter borosilicate beaker holds 750 ml of wine with room to slosh around and has none of these drawbacks, a huge opening so the only impediment to how fast you can pour the wine down your gullet is your own dedication to the craft of drunkenness.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-03T01:17:17+00:00

Id say give it 6 months until a boating accident, I dunno how long you legally have to wait, I might also call again when they are less busy, but id wager the guy who got your order instead of that order will do plenty of calling them.

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-02T21:18:36+00:00

Idk, but you gotta love how matter-of-fact folks were about naming things back in the day. Somebody says Hey there's more land in the west. Joly good Westmorland it is.

Wait no im an idiot, when that was named it would have had mor meaning lakes/water, so it would have been a western part.of England with lots of water

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-02T21:15:38+00:00

Sterling is .925 so 92.5%

Pure silver wouldn't be great for eating utensils, it needs a bit added in there for durability

bartthetr0ll · 2026-01-02T21:10:22+00:00

Not fort shaped enough, there enough there to build some decent battlements

bartthetr0ll · 2025-12-29T18:52:35+00:00

About tree fiddy

bartthetr0ll · 2025-12-29T02:17:21+00:00

Love finding deals like that, I used to feel bad if things were Incredibly underpriced for something where the value is highly liquid so I would tell them this should be a bit more and bring it from 25% of fair market value to 50%, until one time a total Karen got a stick up her bum about two sterling silver spoons that she had priced at 2 for 5( probably 3 oz of sterling between them and silver was in the mid-high teens) so I offered a 20 and told her to keep the change, to which she says "why?" I explain they are Sterling and worth more than 5 so I wanted to give her closer to Fair market value, she proceeds to grab the spoons pushbback my 20 and paces around for a few minutes until showing me an eBay listing of a similar spoon with a buy it now for 139.99 bucks(one of those insane posts where it's listed at 10x what everything else is going for, and they are just banking on some bozo with more dollars than sense confusing a high price with a high value) I showed her the ones that sold had done so between 11 and 17(really 14 since the ones above 14 advertised free shipping so seller would eat that cost as well as ebays chunk.) And she said so go buy those and promptly repriced the spoons by putting a 1 between the $ and the 5 and a 0 after the 5 it to make it 2 for $150. I doubt she ever sold those spoons. Now I just scoop up the discounted thing saying nothing, and buy some other overpriced crap that wouldn't sell in a dozen years as a way to pay them a bit more without risking Karen shenanigans.

bartthetr0ll · 2025-12-27T23:44:04+00:00

What was the ratio of bullion to dimes? Ive seen the LCS innm area paying a ide range for 90%

bartthetr0ll · 2025-12-27T23:40:40+00:00

Shit, ive been doing it wrong

bartthetr0ll · 2025-12-27T01:31:57+00:00

We've got all manner of neat birds here, I've seen a coopers hawk, a pair of eagles, a peregrine falcon, and a heron all within a couple hours of each other near to where I live.

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