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Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany
There are fewer hassles for an adventurer or business traveler bigger than lugging around bags of silver and copper pieces. Luckily TG-Gold-Super-Markt has installed gold vending machines in 500 locations including train stations and airports all across Germany. The machines charge about 30% more than the current trading price for gold, and are updated every few minutes. All are closely monitored by cameras, and like 3rd and 4th edition, electrum pieces are not accepted.
Captain Obvious, is that you? :)
I prefer a candy bar. Gold hurts when I chew.
From TFA: "Because of the crisis there is a lot of awareness of gold," he said. "It is also a great gift for children for them getting gold is like a fairytale."
Imagine... you hand them a gold bar for those 250 bucks and they try to unwrap it for a few minutes before they realize, nope, it ain't chocolate.
Truely the gift of a wealthy sadist.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Did anyone else read just the headline, and figure that some enterprising RMT had come up with a vending machine selling World of Warcraft currency?
Man, I need to interface with the real world more often.
Anyone taking bets on when we see GoldStar machines? Melts your gold down on the spot and gives you cash. ;)
Wouldn't it suck if the little corkscrew thing started to push the gold out and right when it's going to fall it stops and the gold just sits there. Man, that'd be so much worse than not getting a candy bar!
The vending machines are actually a public safety measure. Whenever somebody "goes Galt" they will immediately head for the nearest gold vending machine, in order to exchange their fiat money slave-currency for good solid gold. They can then be registered by the cameras and collected before they have a chance to cause any public disorder.
:Conspiracy theory ends:
Have you met any marketing departments?
apocalypse currency
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Copper currency is good because the copper has an intrinsic value.
So I am hoarding Pennies, pre 1982 pennies, made a machine to sort them out of the regular pennies and go to bank to buy all of the pennies that they have then sort out the pre 1982 pennies and cash back in to new pennies for older unsorted pennies. i figure a couple thousand dollars of copper in pennies (which I won't melt, but will hoard) are less of a rip off than buying gold. Copper is always useful.
I am also hoarding quarters, nickels and dimes as well just not in as high quantities as pennies. My goal is to get a few barrels of pure copper pennies. Them be really good barter tokens in an apocalyptic world.
Gold, pfaw, gold is for the elite asswipes who will rule the post apocalyptic fiefdoms, I am into copper cause I am going to become a mid class merchant who bakes bread, gets fed and maybe sells goods to the elite. The elite are goign to be involved in wars and stuff and probably be dangerous, I am going to be a merchant.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
you want *guns*.
And ammo. Lots of ammo.
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Shit, you're right. Someone could have tampered with the gold - alloyed it with some cheap metal perhaps, taken the rest of the gold for themselves. How can we tell whether the gold is in fact truly gold?
I'm going to have to go and think about this. It's time for my bath anyway...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
You should see how well this business model works with drugs!
Sometimes my arms bend back.
this is funny. Keep it going...
>When you think about it, what's been more stable than *stuff*?
>*Spelling corrected
I can't believe you spelled stuff wrong... twice...
You're crazy. I suggest shorting ProShares UltraShort Gold (ETF)
I should start a fund to make it simpler.
Man, you really need that seminar!
Who is Galt?
Hey Steve, I was gonna call you later. Can you hook me up for the weekend?
I also can't decide if it'd be worse to have the machine eat your $100,000, or return it to you in quarters.
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who thought of putting latinum inside bricks of worthless gold.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
It's the alchemists guild. They sell via various fronts, for obvious reasons.
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