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NY pawn broker gets stuck with fake gold bars.

CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,827 ✭✭✭✭✭
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He paid $14,000 for 50 one ounce gold bars?



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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,029 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There is so much wrong with that transaction that I will not comment.





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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 24,420 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: AUandAG
    There is so much wrong with that transaction that I will not comment.


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  • RedneckHBRedneckHB Posts: 20,155 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good.
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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Geez !!! ??
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  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    $280.00 per ounce, and he did not test them?

    Blinded by Avarice.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,371 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How stupid is that for any pawn shop or bullion dealer to buy 1 oz gold plated brass bars that have less than half of the density of gold? Doesn't pass the common sense test.



    They'll make up the supposed $14,000 loss by ripping off more widows and orphans next month.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 32,197 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: asheland
    Originally posted by: AUandAG
    There is so much wrong with that transaction that I will not comment.


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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,509 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: PRECIOUSMENTAL

    $280.00 per ounce, and he did not test them?

    Blinded by Avarice.




    The term "poetic justice" comes to mind here.

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  • Booger9989Booger9989 Posts: 410 ✭✭✭
    Both thieves got what they deserved.....

    They were made for each other.....

    I call this.....karma
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  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    Had he paid $50-60k I would've felt sorry for him, but, my sympathy runs very shallow. He's already been paid well forward by ripping off widows, addicts, and unemployed trying to whittle back their personal property to make ends meet.

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Booger9989
    Both thieves got what they deserved.....

    They were made for each other.....

    I call this.....karma


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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: cohodk

    Good.




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  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    OK, why would you send gold bars to a refiner? Imagine if these are real and he at least pays $1200 for them. He could've flipped them for $1300 and sold all of them by the end of the week. What's the point of sending pure gold bars to a refiner?

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BBN

    OK, why would you send gold bars to a refiner? Imagine if these are real and he at least pays $1200 for them. He could've flipped them for $1300 and sold all of them by the end of the week. What's the point of sending pure gold bars to a refiner?




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  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    Yeah...the whole thing stinks....including the pawn broker.
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  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Now that its out that he paid so little, is it only up to the savy to understand what he did.
    No regulations about underpaying or possible fraud on his part.
    I guess he could be in question or on record if reported to the police.

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,010 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hard to gloat over misfortunes, as deception and theft go; despite which side of the counter it occurs on. In this case one might say " Fair about's fair play".

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 24,420 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: PerryHall
    Originally posted by: PRECIOUSMENTAL
    $280.00 per ounce, and he did not test them?
    Blinded by Avarice.


    The term "poetic justice" comes to mind here.


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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 24,420 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BBN
    OK, why would you send gold bars to a refiner? Imagine if these are real and he at least pays $1200 for them. He could've flipped them for $1300 and sold all of them by the end of the week. What's the point of sending pure gold bars to a refiner?


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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,010 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "have fun with your bars and leave the drinking to me " , thought a coin dealer, once. image

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unbelievable... a scammer got scammed..... image Cheers, RickO
  • goldengolden Posts: 10,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ricko
    Unbelievable... a scammer got scammed..... image Cheers, RickO


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  • LuriyaLuriya Posts: 8 ✭
    Heard of this happening to a friend. But he actually paid a hefty price. Shows what happens when you don't test
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  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭
    Simple test: weigh the gold bar and then weigh it in water.
    Get the ratio between the two numbers.

    (if it floats, don't buy!)

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