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I'm interested in why the bar is so chewed up. Are they handing out fakes as well?
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Damn, that's interesting!
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The cuts are probably to show the insides of the bar so they know it's solid gold all the way through. Who knows if they're handing out fakes though, imo it's very likely.
My hash dealers do the same thing. Gotta see all the nuances and check quality through and through.
you can commonly find tungstein cored gold bars at sites like alibaba.com for far cheaper than real ones.
they are aparently pretty much indistinguishable from real bars without special equipment.
aparently even some major banks found some in their inventories
I'd love something like that as a paperweight or door stop. Or to sit next to my trillion dollar coin
I see you are prepared for the next Great Crisis.
Possibly demonstrating ductility? Classier than chewing on the damn thing.
Uncanny valley of yummy. It looks wrong but also like candy
Yes, it looks as if it would have a great chewy consistency when biting into it ....
Are they handing out fakes as well?
This is china we are talking about. Of course they are.
You're telling me you would just accept a damn bar of gold handed to you in a similar situation without verifying somehow it is what the seller says it is?
You mean in 2023? No I assume everyone is ripping me off, including china
So now we're at the direct materials trading part of the dynasty.
I’m fucking dumb. What does this mean?
This means that real estate developers are saying "I can't sell this house for $250K but I can sell it for $300K and give you a 1Kg ingot worth $50K" to get around the overvaluing of the house, because people won't buy the house at the prices Chinese government insists they should be sold.
Oh my… what a shit show. Thanks for explaining friend.
Governments are preventing companies from rapidly dropping house prices. But because they’re not worth what they’re forced to keep charging by the government (government isn’t forcing anyone to buy for example), developers are needing to add extra value to the sale to get buyers, hence the gold bars.
House is worth $300k, but the government is forcing you to list it for $500k, so if I throw in $200k worth of gold bars, the whole sale is worth the price.
Wild. Can’t quite wrap my brain around how fucked this is.
Would anyone know how much is that ingot in the market?
Gold price is like stocks, goues up and down. Check price / kg here https://goldprice.org/
So 1kg is around 61,000 USD at the moment.