Re: Silver shortageI've noticed that the advertised prices that coin shops/bullion dealers are willing to buy at are in some cases $2 over spot in silver, so that certainly is a sign of shortages. If people holding the gold/silver ETF's had gone physical the manipulation of prices wouldn't exist. However the trend is definetly changing and the current movement into physical will only grow as the public's eyes are being gradually opened and with escalting pm prices over the next few years well the stampede we've all been waiting for will come.