Clad in Pure Gold!

[WN9HJW]

I'm referring to some of those ridiculous TV commercials where they're trying to sell "proofs" (reproductions) of gold coins.

The ad will say things like "Clad with 31 Milligrams of Pure Gold!" or "Layered with 28 Milligrams of Pure Gold!".

Do people really buy this nonsense?

Don't people realize how much "31 milligrams of pure gold" really is ?

[W5WPL]

They must sell a lot of this nonsense. They spend a lot of money on those ads.

[WA6MHZ]

The RAT BASTARDS take an ordinary 5 cent Nickel, plate it with gold leaf (worth another 5 cents) and then sell it to FOOLS for $20!!!!

I should be GOLD PLATING Dog Crap and selling that for $50! Someone would buy it.

[K4KYV]

So there IS a way to polish a turd, after all.

[AF6LJ]

I have one of those when you read the fine print it's sliver clad in gold, at least it's worth something.

[K7RQ]

The TV ads that get me are these ones offering to buy your gold. I can't believe people would be so gullible as to sell gold to someone who tells you what it is worth. I guess some of them are now getting in trouble for swindling people, as well they should.
Seems like a weak economy brings out all these high binders.

[AF6LJ]

I have some gold jewelry the price of gold is going to have to get up to about 1.8 K$ before I consider selling it.

[WB2WIK]

I have some gold jewelry the price of gold is going to have to get up to about 1.8 K$ before I consider selling it.

Funny you mention that, Sue. I actually did sell some gold last year when the price hit $900/oz. I turned in some necklaces and bracelets I bought in about 1973 for very little and hadn't worn in probably 25 years, and walked out with $1700.

Not exactly a killing, but I wanted to see what the local gold shop would give me so it was kind of a science experiment. If I'd waited until today it would have been more.:p

I would NOT recommend to anyone to mail their stuff away, that's just nutty. I went to a local and very reputable jeweler who melts gold down on site and makes new jewelery out of it. He offered about 80 cents on the dollar, by actual weight and karat coversion. Not a bad deal if you're not using it, anyway.

[W5WPL]

The RAT BASTARDS take an ordinary 5 cent Nickel, plate it with gold leaf (worth another 5 cents) and then sell it to FOOLS for $20!!!!

I should be GOLD PLATING Dog Crap and selling that for $50! Someone would buy it.

Here you go Pat. Maybe we can start giving these as awards.

http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_fullxfull.42365534.jpg

[NA4BH]

The RAT BASTARDS take an ordinary 5 cent Nickel,

I am glad they don't use a 10 cent nickel. It would cost twice as much.

[W5RB]

The RAT BASTARDS take an ordinary 5 cent Nickel, plate it with gold leaf (worth another 5 cents) and then sell it to FOOLS for $20!!!!

I should be GOLD PLATING Dog Crap and selling that for $50! Someone would buy it.

Sell it to audiophiles , and make it $500 . :D

[NI7I]

The RAT BASTARDS take an ordinary 5 cent Nickel, plate it with gold leaf (worth another 5 cents) and then sell it to FOOLS for $20!!!!

I should be GOLD PLATING Dog Crap and selling that for $50! Someone would buy it.

Would you then call them "gold nuggets"? I'll take a dozen.

[KA3TRX]

My understanding is that any US currancy ever made is still considered legal tender. You can spend antique money if you want to. So why isn't making replicas of antique money considered counterfeiting? Can I make replicas of twenty dollar bills and sell them to "collectors"?

[OH2GRA]

I like this russian saying:
"Zolota pa tonyet, a gavno sverdhu plavayet"
Meaning something like "gold sinks to the bottom
while turd swims on the surface":D

[KC0NBW]

So there IS a way to polish a turd, after all.

slick willy and billary are good examples!:D:D

[KL7AJ]

The TV ads that get me are these ones offering to buy your gold. I can't believe people would be so gullible as to sell gold to someone who tells you what it is worth. I guess some of them are now getting in trouble for swindling people, as well they should.
Seems like a weak economy brings out all these high binders.

Especially when I just spent $56 for four pounds of magnet wire! (Caught it at just the right price, as abominable as that seems.....it's already climbing precipitously. Or I guess meteorically. One can only FALL precipitously.

Anyway....I'd rather have REAL metal.....of ANY kind...than fake money.


Eric

[NA0AA]

My understanding is that any US currancy ever made is still considered legal tender. You can spend antique money if you want to. So why isn't making replicas of antique money considered counterfeiting? Can I make replicas of twenty dollar bills and sell them to "collectors"?


Well, what they are doing is making an ersatz copy - usually it's larger than the orginal, plus the base metal is probably aluminum so you can imagine how much it weights - no one is fooled.

Also, those were not coins of general circulation to begin with - so it may fall under a different rule?

As to paper money - no, that would get you in trouble. I think the only exceptions are for books and certain exhibition uses.

[WA6MHZ]

So THATS why they refused to take my MONOPOLY MONEY when I tried to use it to pay for a couple tacos!

[KA9VQF]

There is a ‘replica’ of the 1900 Liberty head $20 U.S. gold piece that you can buy for only $250.00.

When you read the fine print it says it is a precision aluminum casting covered with ‘pure’ 22 caret gold.

I always though pure gold was 24 caret, guess that’s what I get for thinking ‘eh?

[KB1NXE]

So there IS a way to polish a turd, after all.

They actually did just that on an episode of Mythbusters. And, yes you can...

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

[G0GQK]

Strange isn't it how all the bad habits which originate in the US end up in the UK. We've got these American adverts offering to buy our unwanted gold, they must be joking, we can't afford real gold, even our knives and forks are made of wood !

G0GQK

[K8ERV]

Here you go Pat. Maybe we can start giving these as awards.

http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_fullxfull.42365534.jpg

WOW, I bet that hurt! What have you been eating?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[N7RJD]

WOW, I bet that hurt! What have you been eating?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

I'm thinking he swallowed his gold teeth.

[WA4TM]

The RAT BASTARDS take an ordinary 5 cent Nickel, plate it with gold leaf (worth another 5 cents) and then sell it to FOOLS for $20!!!!

I should be GOLD PLATING Dog Crap and selling that for $50! Someone would buy it.


Would you then call them "gold nuggets"? I'll take a dozen.


WOW, I bet that hurt! What have you been eating?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo


I was just thinking, the little girl in my avatar could make me a rich man,, I guess I had better get an order taking website set up ASAP!!

[W4XKE]

Seems everyone's after gold as the dollars are printed and printed and ...

[K8ERV]

When you read the fine print it says it is a precision aluminum casting covered with ‘pure’ 22 caret gold.

I always though pure gold was 24 caret, guess that’s what I get for thinking ‘eh?

The gold is so thin that 2 carets worth of aluminum show through it. Hence 22 caret gold. Simple.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[K8ERV]

So there IS a way to polish a turd, after all.

Of course there is. Polish it in a corner tho.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[W2ILP]

Did you know that 6AK5 vacuum tubes had golden grids?

The golden grids were used in order to prevent secondary emission. There were also other tube types with golden grids.

I was told that some dealers had bought hugh stocks of such surplus tubes and cracked them open for their gold which could add up to valuable ounces.

The grids are pure gold...not just gold plates.

w2ilp (Insufficent Logistical Purity)...Don't look for golden plates.

[WB3JLA]

WOW, I bet that hurt! What have you been eating?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

GOLD SLOGER
IT IS A DRINK

[K8ERV]

Did you know that 6AK5 vacuum tubes had golden grids?



James Bond must have missed that one. Would have made a great title.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[AG3Y]

"Gold Grid ! . . . ."
"Its a part, a part of a vacuum tube "

etc.


Or, perhaps, "The Man with the Golden Grid" ? ? ?