Gold (mining) Junk Mail -- you getting it too?
planetsteve
Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭✭
In the last month I've noticed that I've been getting a lot of direct mail focused on gold. I get the very occasional investment pitch in the mail, but in the last few weeks I've been getting gold marketing every day.
Today's two pieces are a 22-page stapled booklet ending with deals on a "groundbreaking" info service ("Best Offer!": $159 for 3 years along with "the rare Mexican 2 peso gold coin whose $69 value should ratchet up as the great global gold marketing machine starts spinning."); and a glossy 12-page magazine on "profiting from the US Dollar Time Bomb" (a flaming Franklin FRN -- well, one with photoshopped flames -- graces its cover).
Messages: Gold and Oil offer best returns since 1970; public co's are poised for discoveries of vast new reserves; the Federal Reserve keeps printing more and more money; terrorism, the trade imbalance, and home loans gone bad are messing things up in a big way.
Anybody taking a closer look at this stuff? All I can say is that the Mexican 2-peso -- minted in the 40s when "US citizens were forbidden to own gold" -- sure looks purdy.
Today's two pieces are a 22-page stapled booklet ending with deals on a "groundbreaking" info service ("Best Offer!": $159 for 3 years along with "the rare Mexican 2 peso gold coin whose $69 value should ratchet up as the great global gold marketing machine starts spinning."); and a glossy 12-page magazine on "profiting from the US Dollar Time Bomb" (a flaming Franklin FRN -- well, one with photoshopped flames -- graces its cover).
Messages: Gold and Oil offer best returns since 1970; public co's are poised for discoveries of vast new reserves; the Federal Reserve keeps printing more and more money; terrorism, the trade imbalance, and home loans gone bad are messing things up in a big way.
Anybody taking a closer look at this stuff? All I can say is that the Mexican 2-peso -- minted in the 40s when "US citizens were forbidden to own gold" -- sure looks purdy.
0
Comments
I got the same 22 page booklet.....wonder who is giving out the contact info?
The Whisker Cheek Collection - Top 50 Peace VAM Registry
Landmark Buffalo Collection
<< <i>hmm...
I got the same 22 page booklet.....wonder who is giving out the contact info? >>
Yup, that was another question I had. I really don't take offense, but I do wonder about how the marketing is targeted.
A witty saying proves nothing- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor
does the truth become error because nobody will see it. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)