Disclaimer
This site compares the prices of 14 web shops for physical precious metal. What you see is a snapshot: the latest data was collected on . Below is where those figures come from and what you should not use them for.
A snapshot, not a live price
We collect prices periodically from the web shops themselves. Between that moment and the moment you read this page, plenty can have happened: the metal price moves throughout the trading day, and a shop can change its price without us seeing it. Every page states at the bottom when the data was collected.
The price on the dealer's own site is what counts, not ours. We link through to the shop from every offer precisely so that you can check that before you buy.
We sell nothing
themetalvein is a comparison site. We are not a dealer, not an intermediary and not a party to your purchase. If you buy something, you enter into that agreement with the web shop, and their terms, their delivery time and their warranty apply, not ours.
What the amounts are and are not
Prices are including VAT and excluding shipping, as the shop shows them to a private buyer. Investment gold is exempt from VAT in the Netherlands; silver, platinum and palladium do carry VAT. What a specific shop in a specific country charges may differ.
Shipping costs are an indication. They were collected by hand from the published rates of each shop, with source and date, and they apply to an order of that one product to the Netherlands. More items in one order often move the amount to another bracket. Some shops explicitly call their own table indicative. If it says unknown, the shop names no amount for it, which does not mean it is free.
Stock and delivery time come from the shop and may lag behind. If a shop publishes nothing about it, it says "stock unknown" and not something more reassuring.
No investment advice
We rank offers by price per troy ounce and by premium over the spot price. That is a calculation, not a recommendation: not to buy, not to sell, not to pick a particular metal or a particular shop. Precious metal can fall in value. We are not a financial adviser and have no picture of your situation.
Liability
We compile this data with care, but we cannot guarantee that it is complete, correct or current. To the extent the law allows, we accept no liability for damage arising from the use of this site, including in any case deviations in prices, shipping costs, VAT, stock, delivery time or product details, and the consequences of a purchase you make on that basis.
What is on the dealer's site takes precedence over what is here. Brand names and product names belong to their owners; we mention them so that products can be identified.
What we do do
We read prices from the shops themselves and convert them to a price per troy ounce, with the same weight and the same purity for every shop, otherwise you compare two things that only look the same. Offers we cannot price we leave out rather than estimate them. Every offer shows the shop and a link to it, so that you can check our result.