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 Posted 09/20/2015  5:18 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add OspreyCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Check this out:
https://a.govid1.com/nationalcollec...ideo1199.mp4

Note: made by a PRIVATE mint and only has 14mg of actual gold. Also, they are selling them for $10.

What a scam.
They're trying to reel people in that don't know about coins, but have seen the photos of the actual $50 gold piece.
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 Posted 09/20/2015  5:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Hello There to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Aren't they losing money by selling a $50 coin for $10? Doesn't make any sense.
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09/20/2015 5:24 pm
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 Posted 09/20/2015  5:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add AgCoinAu to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
but you get a certificate of authenticity!! how could it be a scam?!!
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 Posted 09/20/2015  5:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OspreyCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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but you get a certificate of authenticity!! how could it be a scam?!!

That better be a joke... http://www.consumerwarningnetwork.c...oin-rip-off/
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 Posted 09/20/2015  5:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OspreyCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
14 mg of gold is about 63 cents worth also.
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 Posted 09/20/2015  6:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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14 mg of gold is about 63 cents worth also.

However, IF Gold should suddenly jump to about a million dollars an ounce, then look what you'ld have.

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but you get a certificate of authenticity!! how could it be a scam?!!

Couldn't ask for more.
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 Posted 09/20/2015  6:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westernsky to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They wouldn't be selling them for 10$ unless they were making money.

If you only pay attention to the first 30 seconds of the "infocommercial" you might think you are getting a 24k 50$ gold Buffalo. There are people that fall for this every day. It's a tactic from marketing 101.

I'm sure they'll sell another boat load of these things that are probably made under contract with a shop in China.
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They have copy stamped on them, they CLEARLY call it a tribute copy, and CLEARLY say there's only 14mg of gold.

No scam here, move along people.

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 Posted 09/20/2015  7:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DBM to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Of course it's a scam, OspreyCoins has been led to believe he'll get 63 cents worth of gold when in fact he'll get closer to 50 cents worth.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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 Posted 09/20/2015  9:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OspreyCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry my numbers were based off of an unrevised melt value calculator.
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 Posted 09/20/2015  9:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OspreyCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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No scam here, move along people.


Are you sure? I beg to differ.
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 Posted 09/20/2015  10:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobby131313 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They tell you exactly what it is (in a pretty booming voice) and give you a price. No big deal, sorry.
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Deceptive marketing, yes.

Scam, no.
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 Posted 09/20/2015  11:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cwb to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
So people with any common sense at all don't know that you aren't going to get a pure Gold coin for $9.95?
I'm sure they will sell out, how does the saying go, a fool and his money?
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