Can someone give me a good source on where to buy precious metals in bars? From gold, silver, copper, nickel, tin...

Stop larping.

I'm looking at JM Bullion because you can pay with BTC. They have a pretty good reputation in general though.

Find a broker that will let you trade London Metals Exchange (LME) futures. Tungsten and tin are a good holds short term.

Just be aware that the contracts are for huge lots and if you hold a contract at expiry, you must take delivery of said contract. We are talking something like taking delivery of 5 tonnes of aluminum sheet or 2 tonnes of copper coil here.

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When I let a mini-contract of silver run out (read 1,000 troy oz.) TD took delivery and threw it into a vault in New York for me and charged me rent for it. I wasn't a home-owner yet and wasn't going to stick 120 imp.lbs of silver in my parents basement.

Rent wasn't that bad. I think it was $1 a month per 1,000 oz., though 15 years later it may have gone up. I sold it to another bank years later at $47,000 for a nice $42,000 profit.

One other thing, TD was always happy to try to convince me to actually take my silver. They even said that it would only take 2 business days to get me my 1,000 oz. at any branch in Canada or south of the border.

That's cool as shit lol

Taxes that year sucked though. I thought doing the time honored paper filing. I remember spending many hours on the phone with the Canada Revenue Agency that year to sort out my taxes.

I still do paper filings for tax. Tax-Free savings accounts that you can trade out of make capital gains calculations go away for good (read: I don't pay tax on trading profits as long as it's done through a TFSA account).

If Justin Trudeau takes this away...

You actually do take delivery. Don't care what that un-cited internet text says.

I did it this way instead of using the London spot price and saved some cash. I did this deliberately in 2002 thinking that silver would go up over $4.50. Silver topped out at an all time high near $50 years later,.

Either find a local dealer and work with him or look online. Ebay is actually a good place to buy from reputable companies. You can usually find silver deals for as low as $.69 per ounce over spot with free shipping

Provident, JM Bullion are my go-to sites. They accept BTC as payment for a slightly higher price over spot, but it's a good way to convert BTC to cash without it going to your bank account as long as you buy in amounts less than $10,000.

>futures

If you don't have the metal, you don't own it faggot.

In a catastrophic event that erases the dollar and brings gold back, I'll probably be dead