RE: Nothing like silver pressies..

Physical silver is getting hard to come by. People have been buying it up for a while now, because it's highly undervalued due to the fact the markets have been manipulated. JP Morgan is desperately trying to keep the price down by flooding the market with paper silver, but people are asking for the physical and there's little left. At some point it won't matter what the markets are doing, the physical will be selling at a price that matches demand. A friend works at a jewellers that sells bullion and all they have at the moment are 1kg and 500g bars of silver and 1oz gold.

So yes, I'd say that people are hoarding and expect it to only go up in price. If you can find what you're looking for, snap it up while you can.