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Costco sells a broad selection of gold and silver products, and now it's adding platinum to the mix. The wholesaler has already sold through multiple rounds of platinum coins and bars in the past week. AdvertisementCostco shoppers have been snapping up a broad selection of gold and silver products over the past year. Costco now offers platinum products online, including both bars and coins. Related storiesGoldCore's business is primarily in gold and silver, but Russell told BI that platinum makes up a "very small percentage" of what the company sells.
Persons: , Gary Millerchip, Edward Sterck, Sterck, bode, Mindy Schauer, David Russell, Russell Organizations: Costco, Service, Canadian Mint, Platinum Investment Council, Media, Getty, ICE Locations: Swiss, Orange
The real kicker, however, is the company's 2% rewards offer for Executive members, plus an another 2% reward for holders of the Costco credit card. One Costco member told Business Insider says he uses these percentage-point differences to make up to $500 per week buying coins and flipping them to online dealers and to local shops. "For me, gold is gold," he said, "but there's always more demand for Mint." Driving through Texas one day he stopped into a Costco warehouse that happened to have US gold buffalo coins in stock. AdvertisementIn just the past six months, the member has bought more than $110,000 worth of gold, according to credit card transactions reviewed with BI.
Persons: , it's, there's, he's Organizations: Service, Business, Costco, BI, US, Mint Locations: Swiss, Texas
Costco is now selling packs of 25-count packs of silver Royal Canadian Mint coins for $625. They wrote in reviews that the tubes weren't sealed when they arrived and the coins were loose and scratched. AdvertisementSome Costco shoppers buying its new $625 packs of silver coins say that they didn't arrive in sealed tubes as promised, leading to some of them showing up scratched. One reviewer said that when they opened their package, "the coins just spilled out of the UPS box." They said their coins arrived "tightly wrapped in plastic and still in the sealed tube."
Persons: , King Charles III Organizations: Costco, Royal Canadian, Service, Royal Canadian Mint, UPS, Eagle, Business
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