AnonPhilly
Philadelphia,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, July 23, 2012
If the person testing your silver is using acid that has been opened a while or otherwise past its prime, then the test result could easily be foggy or difficult to interpret.
Additionally the 1g weight difference could be the calibration of the scale used.
I have purchased silver rounds from Apmex, Gainesville, Provident, and other large net companies and never found any significantly underweight.
I'm thinking that the potential buyer you were dealing with was inexperienced.
REAPER1775
Highland,#3Consumer Comment
Thu, April 19, 2012
I have ordered at least 10 times from them where each order is from 600-1000 dollars and never had a problem. Until I went to sell a couple of my one ounce silver rounds I had bought from them. One of the rounds that had a Indian on one side and on the other it said one troy ounce fine silver .999 well it weighed short a whole gram short so the numismatists said they would not buy it because they did not think it was real. So I had them grind a hunk off the side they tested it with acid and it barely tested positive and was very foggy. So one if it was .999 pure then why was the test so foggy and so bad no one would buy it and two why was it short a whole gram, Also there was NO MINT MARK on the round.