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CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,251 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Here's another read item description = Buyer BEWARE! image

    Texthttp://cgi.ebay.com/GOLD-NUGGET-130-000-00_W0QQitemZ140392177701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCoins_Bullion?hash=item20b006a025
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
    sent report
    "If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins." - Patty Oswalt
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    I know, I know, I know. But the auction even states it's NOT GOLD.

    I just don't feel too sorry for people who bid on crap like this. For the same reason I would never own ANY Of the smaller maple leaf bars, regardless of what they read. I suspect these plated bars, and those small bars, and the similar buffalo bars are all crap made by the same crapfactory.

    See auctions
    160412566858
    180481982081
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374


    << <i>Here's another read item description = Buyer BEWARE! image

    Texthttp://cgi.ebay.com/GOLD-NUGGET-130-000-00_W0QQitemZ140392177701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCoins_Bullion?hash=item20b006a025 >>



    hard to feel bad for the guy since he went outside ebay and wired 16k to Russia image
    "If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins." - Patty Oswalt
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,251 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And another one:

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    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • BobkBobk Posts: 593
    Dont people read, image
    Pecunia in arbotis non crescit.
  • RobbRobb Posts: 2,034 ✭


    << <i>Dont people read, image >>



    May not be about reading as much as it is about comprehension.
    imageRIP
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>And another one:

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    Reported this one ... flagrant misrepresentation
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only flagrant misrepresentation is the follow-up that says the winner will receive two gold bars. And frankly, "gold" is a color. I have to give the seller credit for twisting the phrase "struck with gold maple leafs". The reader may understand that to mean struck FROM gold maple leafs, though that's clearly not the case.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • cjmezzcjmezz Posts: 467
    how about these.......talk about deceptive! They aren't saying its platinum, but whoever is making these shouldn't be allowed to!

    http://cgi.ebay.com/4-OZ-SILVER-BAR-BARS-999-LIBERTY-PLATINUM-1997-ROUND_W0QQitemZ260569712892QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCoins_Bullion?hash=item3cab2a48fc
    "When someone tells you nothing is impossible, ask them to dribble a football"

    MANY positive BST Transactions
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The only flagrant misrepresentation is the follow-up that says the winner will receive two gold bars. And frankly, "gold" is a color. I have to give the seller credit for twisting the phrase "struck with gold maple leafs". The reader may understand that to mean struck FROM gold maple leafs, though that's clearly not the case. >>



    Did you read the title: 2-1 TROY OZ. (31,1gram) 999 GOLD BAR MAPLE LEAF 24KT .... and you don't consider that flagrant?
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,251 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Back in the mid-80's, there was an ad in the Chicago Tribune offering a two-piece medallion set. One was described as one ounce of pure silver. The other, which was the same diameter as the silver piece, was described as "one ounce of .999% gold."
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    Now, ".999%" is literally just slightly less than "1%."
    .
    I contacted the Tribune, and they didn't care.
    .
    I contacted the local Postal Inspector, and after explaining the situation to two layers of flunkiedumb, er, flunkiedom, they gave me a (non-tollfree) number for their regional office in Kentucky or Tennessee.
    .
    I called them, and after speaking with the next two layers of flunkiedumb was asked if I had purchased the item. I said no. They then said that unless I had purchased the item and sustained a loss I could not file a complaint. I said that I did not want to file a complaint, but that I wanted to help them protect people from taking a loss. They repeated that unless I had purchased the item and sustained a loss I could not file a complaint. I gave up.
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    About a year later somebody came into the coin shop with one of the sets. Sure enough, the "one ounce of .999% gold" piece was gold-plated silver.
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    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>The only flagrant misrepresentation is the follow-up that says the winner will receive two gold bars. And frankly, "gold" is a color. I have to give the seller credit for twisting the phrase "struck with gold maple leafs". The reader may understand that to mean struck FROM gold maple leafs, though that's clearly not the case. >>



    Did you read the title: 2-1 TROY OZ. (31,1gram) 999 GOLD BAR MAPLE LEAF 24KT .... and you don't consider that flagrant? >>



    image You got me there! I was so focused on the content I didn't even bother with the title. Yeah, that's 100% flat out wrong.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    As David Hannum said of PT Barnum's fake Cardiff Giant competing with his authentic fake Cardiff Giant "There is a sucker born every minute."image
  • NitroCruiserNitroCruiser Posts: 654
    But bars like these have sold for as high as $1040 each on e-bay???? Not baa baaa baaad. image
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,251 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>And another one:

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    The response I got from this guy to an email:

    I never said they were solid gold bars. If you read my description it says they are gold clad, 100 mils of 24kt gold. That is what they are. Who are you the ebay police. Why dont u mind your own business. I bought these from some one on ebay.


    - king329

    Question: does anybody remember the word "clad" being in there earlier?

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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