Compare silver prices . com

[EL34]

Brother John mentioned this web site is last night's update
http://www.comparesilverprices.com/

Pretty cool idea, but I see two sites missing
Gainseville coin
Goldmart

(BTW - Goldmart is lower on most all of the items than anyone)

I am thinking of emailing the site to get them to add more dealers if possible. I'll point them to this post

Check out the compare silver prices web page and see if anyone else is missing.
I'll edit the post and add them to the list below to have them all in one place

Missing Dealers list

US
Gainseville coin - http://www.gainesvillecoins.com
Goldmart - http://www.goldmart.com

Canada
http://www.Silvergoldbull.com
http://www.preciousmetalhouse.com/

[dragonfly5]

Would be nice if they added some Canadian sites.

Silvergoldbull and Precousmetalshouse come to mind.

[Honey]

Did you email them? Hopefully they will add these to the mix.

[EL34]

(06-29-2012 07:13 AM)Honey Wrote:  Did you email them? Hopefully they will add these to the mix.

Not yet, just got back from a short hike with me dags

Was hoping to get a few more on the list first, but I'll go ahead and email them

[Viper_99]

Thanks EL!

[EL34]

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(06-29-2012 09:21 AM)Viper_99 Wrote:  Thanks EL!

No email reply yet, I guess the whole world does not sit on a computer all day long.

[SilverTemplePilot]

If they could breakdown the choices into more silver options that would be helpful also.

Instead of just 10oz bar, add subcategories for JM 10oz bar, Engelhard 10oz bar, NTR 10 oz bar.

Breakdown the 1oz rounds by mint, too.

I know a lot of people prefer a certain type of bar or round, I think that would help a lot.

[abreik]

I've been tempted to write my own as an excuse to learn Jquery, but it seems kind of lame to steal the idea. I've wanted to have the ability to select what products to show in the table (including different metals in the same page), and add a cart option that lets you add stuff together and show a total from different vendors. I'd also like to see price over spot as a dollar amount rather than just as a percent. I'm pretty sure I remember he used to have Gainsville on there, but the prices kept not scraping right. And yeah, Goldmart needs to be on there.

[EL34]

I use jquery on my web sites but I am not exactly sure how he grabs all those prices from the web sites.
I would like to use a feature like that on my business web site to grab prices from my distributors web sites

If you know how it is done, can you point me to a good web reference
I am not finding anything from google searches

[kshymkiw]

This is a pretty nice site. If they grow it some more, and make a better interface it could be even better.

[nigerian prince]

the maples are cheaper at every site, why would anyone even buy eagles?

[EL34]

(06-29-2012 04:05 PM)nigerian prince Wrote:  the maples are cheaper at every site, why would anyone even buy eagles?

I bought one silver Eagle ($2.59 over spot) just to have one.

I bought 1000 silver Maples (1.99 pver spot) cause they are .60 each cheaper and they look really nice

As for the Austrian philharmonic, I bought one of those just to see what they looked like. I must say thay are rather boring compared to Eagles and maples

Gold and Silver Maples are my choice in coins

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back to the compare prices web site

If you try and have too many products across the top row, the screen display gets funky
My advice would be to click on a product type and have the table below fill out with the product

Or be able to click up to 5 products from a list and do a compare type of thing
This would keep the table small

Right now on my small monitor, the site is unreadable
On my large monitors it is fine since I have a ton of spoce horizontally

[Viper_99]

(06-29-2012 04:05 PM)nigerian prince Wrote:  the maples are cheaper at every site, why would anyone even buy eagles?

I think it to some extent matters what country you live in. I buy maples because Canadians will have a been chance of understanding that they are minted in our country and will trust them more. I think Americans are more likely to trust ASE rather than Maples because they are Americans. When I go to the states a try to pass off a Canadian quarter people freak out.

This would be the only reason I can think of and perhaps it is not that strong. In part, that is why I never buy rounds or bars not even RCM bars. Look at all the videos of guys trying to sell gold or silver to the public for pennies on the dollar and they won't even touch it. I think it was Chris who offered a 1 oz gold maple for a stick of gum and the lady said no!

[EL34]

Those videos are sad.

I can't belive the general public has no idea what a solid gold maple leaf is.[/quote]

[SilverTemplePilot]

He's bound to run into someone that knows the value of gold. He could very easily edit out the people that would take him up on his offer.

[Viper_99]

(06-30-2012 08:21 PM)EL34 Wrote:  Those videos are sad.

I can't belive the general public has no idea what a solid gold maple leaf is.

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Check this out!

[EL34]

yes, those are the videos I was talking about

[Viper_99]

(06-30-2012 08:59 PM)SilverTemplePilot Wrote:  He's bound to run into someone that knows the value of gold. He could very easily edit out the people that would take him up on his offer.

You can easily see people are dumb and there are people who do realize what a gold oz is worth. There is no conspiracy here but you question if the US government would run a gun conspiracy against its citizens?

[EL34]

BTW, I heard back from Bernank, who runs the Compare site.

he said this:

Quote:He will flirt with the idea of adding the dealers we have listed here.... and that each dealer takes about 3 hours minimum to add them to compare silver

I take his reply as "don't hold your breath because it's a huge outlay of his time and he is not getting paid" , which I totally understand.

[SilverTemplePilot]

(07-01-2012 12:12 PM)Viper_99 Wrote:  

(06-30-2012 08:59 PM)SilverTemplePilot Wrote:  He's bound to run into someone that knows the value of gold. He could very easily edit out the people that would take him up on his offer.

You can easily see people are dumb and there are people who do realize what a gold oz is worth. There is no conspiracy here but you question if the US government would run a gun conspiracy against its citizens?

Yes.

[abreik]

(06-29-2012 12:53 PM)EL34 Wrote:  I use jquery on my web sites but I am not exactly sure how he grabs all those prices from the web sites.
I would like to use a feature like that on my business web site to grab prices from my distributors web sites

If you know how it is done, can you point me to a good web reference
I am not finding anything from google searches

Ideally you would use a web service for this so that you know what data you are getting back. If a dedicated web service isn't available to retrieve the data you need, you could scrape the data from the html source from their publicly facing website. This can be done in just about any programming language using the same concepts, though implementation is a bit different. Basically, Step 1: fetch the source code from the web site. Step 2: run a Regular Expression (search for regular expression online, they can be weird to get used to at first but there are tutorials online) to pick out the data you want from the page. Step 3: profit!

For example, here is this concept implemented in PHP to fetch the price of a single item from Provident. I tried this regular expression on both Maples and ASEs and it worked for both. Just change the URL.

PHP Code:

$url = "http://www.providentmetals.com/2012-1-oz-american-silver-eagle-bullion-coin.html";
$regex = "/id=\"product-price-[0-9]*\">[\s]*<span class=\"price\">\\$([0-9\.\w]*)/";
$matches = array();
$source = file_get_contents($url);
preg_match($regex, $source, $matches);
$price = isset($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : false; 


If the search worked, then $price will equal the cash discount price of one ASE at Provident, otherwise $price will be false. I hope that helps (it might not if you aren't a programmer but it sounds like you know a thing or two).

[lambergino]

(06-29-2012 06:26 AM)dragonfly5 Wrote:  Would be nice if they added some Canadian sites.

Silvergoldbull and Precousmetalshouse come to mind.

Yea for sure I hope they add the Canadian sites, specially PreciousMetalHouse.com they offer very competitive prices and free shipping over 3999 within Canada and US!