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[al44]

Just a little first hand DD:

Last week my wife and I returned from our daughter's wedding held in Tampa, Fla. The last part of the trip was a wedding cruise out of Tampa to Cozumel, Mexico and back. So in Cozumel she shopped until I dropped ( a little sympathy if you please ). Hopefully the flu bug wasn't there yet back then. Today she tells me that every other time she was in Mexico there were always little stands and shops in the large verandas loaded with Mexican silver items. It seemed that everybody had silver for sale, not surprising in Mexico. This time with the rare exception of a few small shops, the only silver available was in the larger jewelry stores on the main drag. Everything I've been saying to her came together with one little thought about a recent trip. If silver is hard to come by in Mexico, how bad is it in the rest of the world?

............al