***gold coin for CHEAP, no takers

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• Goldbully Posts: 18,500 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 11:30AM

  Just another example of the 'low information' citizen.
  
  

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• AMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 11:48AM

  I could not keep watching it. Hopefully someone takes him up on it.

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 1:11PM

  As the information super highway runs right under the masses and over their heads. .

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• WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 1:12PM

  They're actors filming this commerical.
  
  

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• lostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭

  October 13, 2014 1:21PM

  I haver seen the same thing done at fastfood restraunts where the people behind the counter will not take a Morgan or Peace dollar for payment. Not sure if this one is real but it is making a good point about how stupid the general masses are, they just don't listen, amazing.

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• HighRelief Posts: 3,728 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 1:57PM

  My first impression would be what is his scam and then check the coin to see if it was chocolate.

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• lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,486 ✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 6:00PM

  shame i couldn't of made it in his video...he'd be down one maple leaf...

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• morgansforever Posts: 8,501 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 6:17PM

  Certainly wouldn't want to come across me or anyone else here. Has to be staged, has to be.

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• OPA Posts: 17,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 9:52PM

  That video has been around for several years and was made shortly after gold hit it's all time high. Unfortunately, it was not filmed in my "neck of the woods." It only goes to show, that J6P as a whole, has no conception of the value of PM's and couldn't give a ra_s ars. On the other hand, with all the counterfeit Chinese junk on the market, I'd be cautious to.

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• BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,615 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 11:04PM

  
  
  << <i>My first impression would be what is his scam and then check the coin to see if it was chocolate. >>
  
  
  
  You think a coin sized chunk of chocolate would be as heavy as the same sized chunk of gold?

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 14, 2014 1:01AM

  You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 14, 2014 3:37AM

  The general public knows nothing about coins.
  
  If truth be known, the people probably didn't have twenty five bucks on them.

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• BillJones Posts: 35,779 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 14, 2014 4:07AM

  I would not censure all of these people because I would have some questions.
  
  • First I would want to handle it to make sure that it had the look and feel of gold, and it had the sharpness of government struck, genuine coin. That of course would require some expertise.
  
  • Second, I be concerned that it was "hot." Receiving stolen goods is a felony.
  
  • Third, the offer he made to follow the lady to an ATM would set off alarm bells for me. I don't want anyone over my shoulder at the ATM the few times that I use one.
  
  • If he has a clear title to the coin, why doesn't he go into the coin shop and sell it?
  
  In a way these stories are unusual because more often we hear stories about scammers successfully offering to pay people a reward or share the winnings if they will "invest" X dollars in a sure thing. All too often we hear that greed trumps common sense, and people get scammed.
  
  I'd be interested to know if anyone took the offer, and he lost $1,500+ at the 2012 gold price.
  

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