How To Buy Gold ?

[Seight_Returns]

If I wanted to buy some gold as an investment/store of value, how would I do this ?

[Heskey]

www.wowgold.com

[Timmy35]

Coin shop

Bullionvault.com

ETF securities

Perth Mint Certificates

'Essex gold' second hand shop in South Woodford.

[john_p]

Argos

[walm]

GLD is the ETF - simplest and easiest way by far. Buy it in your SIPP, ISA or just set up a share trading account.

[Seight_Returns]

BAHN-STORMA said:

Where do you plan to keep it?

Haven't decided, but I'll certainly be posting the time and place on a public forum when I do.

[Jon C]

walm said:

GLD is the ETF - simplest and easiest way by far. Buy it in your SIPP, ISA or just set up a share trading account.

Thats easy for you to say...

[Neil_H]

Seight_Returns said:

BAHN-STORMA said:

Where do you plan to keep it?

Haven't decided, but I'll certainly be posting the time and place on a public forum when I do.

We'll also need the safe combination/ keycode. Thanks.

[plasticpig]

http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/ I have used these guys before but not for investment purposes.

[Timmy35]

BAHN-STORMA said:

Where do you plan to keep it?

Drape it all over an Essex girl so long as it's no higher than 9ct.

[SystemParanoia]

how much for a Hollywood style bar of pure gold?

[plasticpig]

SystemParanoia said:

how much for a Hollywood style bar of pure gold?

It depends on the price of gold... But roughly £13.5k for a 1KG bar.

[steven182]

Heskey said:

www.wowgold.com

lol

[Mc Lovin]

Buy it?! pffft, all you need is 3 mini's, a bus, a loud cockney accent and some explosive.

[Timmy35]

plasticpig said:

SystemParanoia said:

how much for a Hollywood style bar of pure gold?

It depends on the price of gold... But roughly £13.5k for a 1KG bar.

Just to point out.....a 1kg bar isn't much bigger than a pack of cards.

[shadowninja]

Jon C said:

walm said:

GLD is the ETF - simplest and easiest way by far. Buy it in your SIPP, ISA or just set up a share trading account.

Thats easy for you to say...

Why? Do you have a lisp?

[chris_w666]

Could we not buy 1kg units of something more interesting than Gold?

Something White and powdery would go down well.

[Mc Lovin]

chris_w666 said:

Could we not buy 1kg units of something more interesting than Gold?

Something White and powdery would go down well.

what, like anthrax?

[wildoliver]

Yeah but gold doesn't tend to get you put away for 12 years

Is there any difference in price between buying gold (are they called certificates?) bit's of paper that say you own x amount of gold in someones vault, and an actual piece of gold?

Basically is it cheaper to hold the bit of paper rather than the piece of gold?

[gingerpaul]

Why is it that gold is the precious metal of choice? I know it is the most expensive, but why isn't silver for example more popular? Looking ETF silver shows quite a drop from the peak seen in March when gold was also at its peak.