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Buy gold online? Well, in addition to a certain age-old skepticism over buying gold bullion is the question about buying gold online. In today’s internet age, many investors buy sizable amounts of gold online, especially gold bullion coins and bars, in a few simple clicks and keystrokes.
When you decide to buy online, first have in mind what types and amounts of gold you intend to purchase. This can narrow down your search dramatically, as some dealers only sell gold bullion coins. Others may sell both gold coins and bars, as well as collectible coins.
A good way to begin searching for an online seller is to type the coins you’re looking for right into a search engine, such as “Gold Eagle 1 oz bullion” or “Krugerrand ¼ oz.”
When narrowing down a dealer search, make sure the dealer has a good reputation. We regularly buy from Investmentrarities.com, bullion.nwtmint.com/ and blanchardonline.com/ with complete confidence.
Buying gold coins or gold bars over eBay can be a risky venture, especially since a dealer’s reputation in the gold market can be masked by a menagerie of feedback. Just because the dealer is a “Power Seller” does not mean that all those transactions came from gold sales! The feedback could’ve come from 100s of faux cashmere sweaters and junk market jewelry.
Here are a few things to check when trying to judge a dealer’s good-standing:
“What does the website look like? Is the site linked to an actual place of business? A site set up on the internet without a physical business location looks risky from the start.
“Is the site encrypted when you move to a transaction web page? If not, STOP. Do NOT make any transaction with this dealer.
“Is there a return policy? Make sure the dealer has one or you could be stuck with a piece of junk gold.
When you think you’ve found a good dealer, start looking into premiums (cost above spot price) charged. Making a premium cost comparison could save you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.
Prices often vary as far as sales tax, shipping and handling charges, and profit-generating mark-up amounts. Occasionally, a return charge applies should the customer be unsatisfied with a purchase.
A few more things should be looked over when buying gold bars from an online institution. Each gold bar should have a refiner’s mark, gross weight in troy ounces, purity, and a serial number on it. Make sure to get the numbers when ordering a gold bar and upon receipt, inspect the bar to ensure accuracy. A certificate should accompany each bar disclosing these critical markings.
You can find the current spot price of gold and silver many places on line. One website that not only has prices, but very helpful charts and news is at Kitco.com. There is no cost to visit Kitco and they also sell coins and bullion.
Another good sources of news about gold and silver can be found at goldnews.bullionvault.com/.
By: Mark Walters
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When you decide to buy online, first have in mind what types and amounts of gold you intend to purchase. This can narrow down your search dramatically, as some dealers only sell gold bullion coins. Others may sell both gold coins and bars, as well as collectible coins.
A good way to begin searching for an online seller is to type the coins you’re looking for right into a search engine, such as “Gold Eagle 1 oz bullion” or “Krugerrand ¼ oz.”
When narrowing down a dealer search, make sure the dealer has a good reputation. We regularly buy from Investmentrarities.com, bullion.nwtmint.com/ and blanchardonline.com/ with complete confidence.
Buying gold coins or gold bars over eBay can be a risky venture, especially since a dealer’s reputation in the gold market can be masked by a menagerie of feedback. Just because the dealer is a “Power Seller” does not mean that all those transactions came from gold sales! The feedback could’ve come from 100s of faux cashmere sweaters and junk market jewelry.
Here are a few things to check when trying to judge a dealer’s good-standing:
“What does the website look like? Is the site linked to an actual place of business? A site set up on the internet without a physical business location looks risky from the start.
“Is the site encrypted when you move to a transaction web page? If not, STOP. Do NOT make any transaction with this dealer.
“Is there a return policy? Make sure the dealer has one or you could be stuck with a piece of junk gold.
When you think you’ve found a good dealer, start looking into premiums (cost above spot price) charged. Making a premium cost comparison could save you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.
Prices often vary as far as sales tax, shipping and handling charges, and profit-generating mark-up amounts. Occasionally, a return charge applies should the customer be unsatisfied with a purchase.
A few more things should be looked over when buying gold bars from an online institution. Each gold bar should have a refiner’s mark, gross weight in troy ounces, purity, and a serial number on it. Make sure to get the numbers when ordering a gold bar and upon receipt, inspect the bar to ensure accuracy. A certificate should accompany each bar disclosing these critical markings.
You can find the current spot price of gold and silver many places on line. One website that not only has prices, but very helpful charts and news is at Kitco.com. There is no cost to visit Kitco and they also sell coins and bullion.
Another good sources of news about gold and silver can be found at goldnews.bullionvault.com/.
By: Mark Walters
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Mark Walters is founder of CreatingWealthClub.com. He is predicting a period of hyperinflation and explains how to protect your buying power in his new book Buy Gold Now…www.BuyGoldNowGuide.com
Dong Byers
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Gold Investment is an old age tactic of putting your money into something that you feel will increase in value over time. It is a liquid and tangible investment. There are so many motives behind gold investment. Some invest in the hope of future increment in the value, some because they love the yellow metal, some other for price speculation and so on.
Gold is slightly more risky than bonds, so you should be careful to pay attention to this. However, as a long term investing strategy, gold has steadily increased in value over time. Also, part of the reason that gold is worth so much money is due to its comparative rarity. Even though it is rare, If the markets were to become flooded, chances are good that you would lose money. However, gold has a tendency to stay relatively stable, or to increase its value, over time. The rarity of gold is what keeps it’s value up.
It can be a trading item, store of value, investment, insurance and others. You have the options of investing in gold, gold stock, gold bullion, gold certificates, options, forward contracts, gold linked notes and such other gold related options. Trading gold has also been an old established business. Trading may be like other currencies for future appreciation in the value.
How stable is gold investing? Well, the demand for gold is much higher than its supply. As you can tell, this is already good for people who are thinking about gold investing. Once there is more supply than demand, the price starts to rise. Since the demand for gold is almost twice the amount that is actually mined, the prices for gold are likely to go up steadily.
Speculation is the main cause for trading. There may be different types of gold investors like people who store gold, people who include in their portfolio, banks who keep part of their deposit in gold, financial institutions, gold bugs, speculator, petroleum speculator, portfolio hedger etc.
Gold may be included in your investment portfolio. But with other investment strategy, gold investment should be a part of your portfolio not the whole portfolio. Exposure to only one kind of investment can have negative effects should you run into a down time. You can invest in gold but with some research and knowledge. Investing is interesting but may be destructive for your investments. Like stock investing, in gold investing also you should do research and fundamental and technical analysis.
Just like diversifying your total investment portfolio, one thing that you should keep in mind about gold investing, is that you should not put all of your money into one type of gold investment. You should also not just go out and buy a bunch of physical gold. While this is a good way to build a solid and insured foundation, you should also be investing in some of the other parts of the gold industry. For instance, if you invest in gold mines that are not producing at their top amount yet, or in potential gold mines, you stand a chance of making more money in the future.
Gold values are currently at all time highs as the US dollar weakens in value, and oil prices continue to rise. The perfect time to invest in gold would have been a few years ago up to last year, however, timing the market is not the best strategy for non active investors. Dollar cost averaging is best for non active investors. What you would do is purchase gold in even increments over time, and the over all average cost of the acquisitions lowers as you buy gold in up times, as well as down times.
By: Matt Chang
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Gold is slightly more risky than bonds, so you should be careful to pay attention to this. However, as a long term investing strategy, gold has steadily increased in value over time. Also, part of the reason that gold is worth so much money is due to its comparative rarity. Even though it is rare, If the markets were to become flooded, chances are good that you would lose money. However, gold has a tendency to stay relatively stable, or to increase its value, over time. The rarity of gold is what keeps it’s value up.
It can be a trading item, store of value, investment, insurance and others. You have the options of investing in gold, gold stock, gold bullion, gold certificates, options, forward contracts, gold linked notes and such other gold related options. Trading gold has also been an old established business. Trading may be like other currencies for future appreciation in the value.
How stable is gold investing? Well, the demand for gold is much higher than its supply. As you can tell, this is already good for people who are thinking about gold investing. Once there is more supply than demand, the price starts to rise. Since the demand for gold is almost twice the amount that is actually mined, the prices for gold are likely to go up steadily.
Speculation is the main cause for trading. There may be different types of gold investors like people who store gold, people who include in their portfolio, banks who keep part of their deposit in gold, financial institutions, gold bugs, speculator, petroleum speculator, portfolio hedger etc.
Gold may be included in your investment portfolio. But with other investment strategy, gold investment should be a part of your portfolio not the whole portfolio. Exposure to only one kind of investment can have negative effects should you run into a down time. You can invest in gold but with some research and knowledge. Investing is interesting but may be destructive for your investments. Like stock investing, in gold investing also you should do research and fundamental and technical analysis.
Just like diversifying your total investment portfolio, one thing that you should keep in mind about gold investing, is that you should not put all of your money into one type of gold investment. You should also not just go out and buy a bunch of physical gold. While this is a good way to build a solid and insured foundation, you should also be investing in some of the other parts of the gold industry. For instance, if you invest in gold mines that are not producing at their top amount yet, or in potential gold mines, you stand a chance of making more money in the future.
Gold values are currently at all time highs as the US dollar weakens in value, and oil prices continue to rise. The perfect time to invest in gold would have been a few years ago up to last year, however, timing the market is not the best strategy for non active investors. Dollar cost averaging is best for non active investors. What you would do is purchase gold in even increments over time, and the over all average cost of the acquisitions lowers as you buy gold in up times, as well as down times.
By: Matt Chang
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Visit http://eaglegoldcoinshop.com for pricing on American Eagle Gold Coins. You can find Eagle gold proof coins, and American Eagle bullion at auction pricing.
Arnoldo Petrelli
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Jon Nadler Senior Analyst from Kitco discusses the reasons to own Gold and Silver, and how it can be purchased in a number of convenient ways.
Theodore Biorkman