Many
people have told me of their frustration at trying to convince their friends
and family. I hear you. It's not much easier for me!
It
took me about 6 months to a year to convince my father to buy his first
precious metals. I did it by showing him 4 gold coins, and a gold coin
was something he had never seen or held. A Krugerrand, a Gold
Eagle, a Gold Maple Leaf, and a gold
Philharmonic. Back then, I bought them for about $300 each. The
result was electric, he loved touching them, feeling them warm up in his
hands, and I let him hold them as long as he wished. We ran through all
the arguments together, but it seems that the longer he saw and held the
coins, the coins won out.
I wish
I could let you hold a coin or two, so you could feel the density of the
metal, and how different of a tactile sensation it is to nearly everything
else you regularly experience, but email is limited. So, I'll just
recommend that you visit your nearest coin shop; ask the dealer to hold
some real metal.
It
took me 4 years to fully convince my father to fully invest in precious
metals, from 1999 to 2003. And I was living with him the ENTIRE TIME!
Fortunately,
we were early, and we had good gains. The year 2003 was the low for
silver, so we sat on a 25% loss at one point.
But
that was 6 years ago now. While many of our arguments were the same
then as are being spoken today, today is a different world. More
bankruptcies. More bail outs. It's clearer now. There
is even a solid up trend for gold as a great confirmation. We didn't
have that luxury when we bought.
I need
to know what's being said today.
When
you talk to your friends and family about gold, I know you are mostly
ignored, ridiculed, and your fact-based arguments are rejected with
non-sequiturs, invalid arguments, ridiculous statements and absurd
assumptions.
I know
it has to be that way, based on what my readers tell me, and also based on
the numbers. With only $2 billion in the world being spent each year on
physical silver as an investment, it shows that only about one person in 1000
understands silver, and that less than one dollar in $10,000 is being spent
wisely on silver.
My
experience convincing people is different than yours. I have more
experience than most by now. But there is another key difference
between the responses I get in email, compared to the responses you get when
you talk to friends and family. See, most people on my email list were
actively searching for information about silver and gold. So you are
more open minded than the average person in the public. This colors my
recent experiences, since I get more than 10 supportive letters for every one
that is negative. In fact, these days, sometimes I don't get any negative
feedback at all!
So, I
sometimes have to search out what others are saying against gold, since I
don't get as much negative feedback in my in box.
Please
help me help you.
Tell
me exactly what your friends and family who reject gold, actually say.
Please
tell me in as much detail as you can.
What
are their arguments? What are yours?
How
does the conversation go? How long will they let you talk before
cutting you off? Do they actually tell you to "stop
talking," or do they give you an argument you can't think of a reply to?
What
do they need to hear? What are their strongest arguments?
What
are they unconvinced of? What do they need to be convinced of?
What
would you like to share with them? Have you sent them any of my emails?
Would
you like to send them any particular email?
How
persistent are you? Do you have a planned conclusion to the discussion?
Do you
present them with places to go and buy? Do you just not get that
far? Do you expect them to take the time to study diligently for over a
year to figure out what you have figured out?
Have
you put gold or silver into their hands?
Email me at j@silverstockreport.com
Just reply to this email.
Here's
what I suggest next time you see them.
Take
various kinds of silver, a few different one ounce pieces, such as a generic
1 oz. round, a Silver Eagle, a Silver Maple, and a Philharmonic. Take a
100 oz. silver bar if you can afford one. Those really impress
people with the weight of 6.8 pounds, and being so dense. Take along at
least 2 gold coins if you can, the Eagle, and the Krugerrand, the most
popular ones.
Then
don't say a word. Don't push. Don't say anything. Just
answer questions, but say no more. They will have questions. They
will come like a hurricane if you wait for it.
Let
your answers be as short as possible, so they can get their mental wheels
going, and get their next question out.
Let
them convince themselves, and they will be won over. You likely already
know all the answers to all the questions they will have. For most of
the questions they will have, you can discern and discover the answers if you
think about it for a bit.
A
common concern is theft. Simple answer: Vaults work. That's
why locksmiths and gun stores sell vaults. It's not like on TV
where you can crack one with a stethoscope in 30 seconds.
But
"where to put it all"? Ok, multiple vaults. Put a
vault in your relatives' houses if your own house is not safe enough.
If your house is not safe enough for an inert object, then why is it safe
enough for you to live there? Aren't you more valuable than your money?
Another
common retort is that "God will protect me". I agree.
God provided protection. He created it. It's called silver and
gold. They are designed perfectly to thwart all forms of monetary
fraud. But if they fail to buy it, then God's protection can't protect
them, but will help others who listened, instead. It rains on the just
an unjust alike. Similarly, God's monetary protection is only available
to those who have it.
Another
common concern is the "all or nothing" fallacy. Money is
divisible. That's why it's money. Thus, you don't have to put it
all into one place. You can put some into silver or gold. But I'd
still recommend you put most of your wealth into silver and gold, including
home equity, annuities, etc.
Another
common concern is that "You can't spend it." That's proof
it's cheap! With less demand as a use as money, less demand means a
lower price. As an investor, you want to buy while the price is
still low, not after it becomes money, you have to buy it first, before it
becomes money again. You also can't spend your house, stocks or
bonds! Money is more than just a medium of exchange, it's also a store
of value. Something going up in value is a great store of value.
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(Mom will ship in
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than 100 ounces of silver, and overseas, and take credit cards or pay
pal.)
Sincerely,
Jason Hommel
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www.silverstockreport.com
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