Are their any sources other than pennies for copper?

[RD5]

I like copper pennies and all, but are there any other places to buy any form of copper for a reasonable premium?

[Dr. Cadmium]

If you have a good relationship with your local scrapyard, you can buy from them. They'll want you to buy large quantities at a time, and you won't be getting bullion, but this way you can get it below spot price.

If you just show up at a scrapyard you've never been to before and ask to buy copper, they will tell you to get lost.

[RD5]

To bad I don't know any scrapyard owners

[RichardPenny43]

Read the Scrap Metal Salvage forum. Lots of free and cheap copper finds.

[Dr. Cadmium]

Note that pennies are denser and much easier to store than most of the forms of copper dealt with at scrap yards, you just have to work harder and/or pay a premium for them. It's a trade-off.

[rickygee]

How 'bout your neighbor's plumbing or AC unit?

jkjkjkjkjkjk!

[penny pretty]

In this economy, I prefer electrical substations.Nice heavy copper wire coils. it helps keep jobs for the repairmen.note: anyone prone to electrocution MIGHT want to stick with pennies.

[everything]

I think just about every day their is a story about a copper theft somewhere. I think copper is hard to invest in unless you buy in during a recession, and buy at least a ton or three.

[ZenOps]

Failed dot com headquarters that rhyme with MaceLook usually have a lot of copper network wiring. Haha

http://www.midasletter.com/index.php/ne ... er-market/

JPMorgan will be offering 61,800 tonnes of paper copper soon, because we all know that copper needs more artificial speculative fluff to make it more expensive.