Protect yourself when you buy gold with bitcoin – read these dealer reviews of actual purchases, with full screenshots and detailed step-by-step analysis included.
Summary results from test purchase September 21, 2014
We made identical purchases from two different online stores selling precious metals for bitcoin within 2 hours. The results are shown below. This test was conducted September 21, 2014.
The order we placed at each vendor was (one) one-ounce Canadian Silver Maple Leaf Coin.
Results 2014
Vendor | Spot Price Silver | Store Price | Shipping | Add'l Fees | Total Cost Above Spot | Total Cost Delivered | Days to Ship | Total Days Order-to- Delivery |
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Vendor | Spot Price Silver | Store Price | Shipping | Add'l Fees | Total Cost Above Spot | Total Cost Delivered | Days to Ship | Total Days Order-to- Delivery |
Amagi Metals review | $17.56 21sep14 | $19.83 | Standard Shipping $2.98 | No fees | $5.27 delivered | $22.83 | 1 | 3 |
Agora Comm- odities review | $17.44 21sep14 | $19.52 | Priority Mail Flat Rate®: $5.60 | No fees | $2.85 delivered | $20.29 | 1 | 4 |
Summary results from test purchase September 22-24, 2013
We made identical purchases from three different online stores selling precious metals for bitcoin within 48 hours. The results are shown below. This test was conducted September 22-24, 2013.
The order we placed at each vendor was (one) one-ounce American Silver Eagle Coin.
Results 2013
Vendor | Spot Price Silver | Store Price | Shipping | Add'l Fees | Total Cost Above Spot | Total Cost Delivered | Days to Ship | Total Days Order-to- Delivery |
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Vendor | Spot Price Silver | Store Price | Shipping | Add'l Fees | Total Cost Above Spot | Total Cost Delivered | Days to Ship | Total Days Order-to- Delivery |
Amagi Metals review | $21.56 22sep13 | $24.68 | Standard Shipping $2.50 | Bitcoin process fee $0.28 | $5.90 | $27.46 | 1 | 3 |
Agora Comm- odities review | $21.80 24sep13 | $25.58 | Priority Mail Flat Rate®: $5.60 | Shipping fee mishap Refunded! report | $22.95 | $44.75 | 1 | 3 |
Coin- abul | $21.48 22sep13 | $28.29 | Coinabul Insured Express $9.02 | --- | $13.79 | $35.27 | 32 | 40 |
Industry News
Amagi Metals News |
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From an actual purchase of 21st September 2014, a review is posted. |
Throughout the year we have seen a sharp increase in our overall Bitcoin-paid sales. As of now about 30-40% of our total business is through Bitcoin customers and we thank you all so much! We are currently working on ways to educate our fiat currency customers on Bitcoin as well as find ways to transfer dollars into bitcoin easily in the future (ie: Bitcoin ATM in our showroom, easy wallet set ups over the phone, etc.) We can't wait to show you more! -- Amagi Metals |
Amagi Metals has redesigned their website with many new features! “Our customers will be impressed by the simple design and won’t have to visit numerous sites to retrieve all the information they are looking for in the precious metals and cryptocurrency world. Amagi wants to truly simplify the experience of buying silver and gold with our new features.” - Stephen Macaskill, CEO |
Stephen Macaskill CEO of Amagi Metals can be heard on this YMB Podcast. |
Agora Commodities News |
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From an actual purchase of 21st September 2014, a review is posted. |
Dear bullion lovers, our fresh logo and website are coming soon! We want to provide you a better user experience to our website and service, and we are really looking forward to it and hope you will enjoy it as well. -- Agora Commodities |
We are encouraging international customers to buy precious metals through the digitaltangibletrust.com platform. There is no international shipping charges associated with this service so it offers real savings to our international customers. -- Agora Commodities |
Protect yourself when you buy gold with bitcoin – read my dealer reviews of actual purchases, where full screenshots and detailed step-by-step analysis are included.
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How do you calculate “Total Cost Delivered”? It looks a little off!
Total Cost Delivered is easy to calculate, that’s just the actual amount spent from my wallet at the moment of sale. During this checkout process, I was taking screenshots of anything that moved, while switching currencies throughout the entire checkout. I suspect I managed to break the process, and according to the screenshots the shipping jumped to an amount I hadn’t noticed, due to it being displayed in BTC at the time. This Agora Commodities review is being prepared next.