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free candy or free 10 oz silver bar unbelievable
NOAH
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhTFz_SGw0people are dense and stupid[:0][:0]
they chose the candy bar over the 10oz silver bar
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What's 10oz of pure Silver going for today??
Take the bar of Silver into the coin shop,sell it and go buy 40 chocolate bars..
What's 10oz of pure Silver going for today??
about $15 an oz.
They walk among us....
BS! I'd like to know how many took the silver bar.
Agreed. Shot to look like his stash of chocolate was dropping and he kept the silver for the entire pile of chocolate.
I do not believe that to be the case.
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
BS! I'd like to know how many took the silver bar.
Agreed. Shot to look like his stash of chocolate was dropping and he kept the silver for the entire pile of chocolate.
I do not believe that to be the case.
I'm not saying there isn't selective editing going on but if you went to my local grocery store and asked people what the value of an oz of silver was, I'm sure the results would be very similar.
BS! I'd like to know how many took the silver bar.
I doubt many, although I would be shocked if there wasn't at least a couple.
A dozen silver bars would add up quickly.
I would guess there is always some one who might , but really I think set up .
watch his video of him trying to sell 1oz gold coin for $20. I bet he didnt hand any of those out and edit it.
I wouldn't spend $ 25.00 on a gold coin from someone who approached me on the street. With the coin shop in the background, however, I would buy it on the condition that the shop would verify it.
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
BS! I'd like to know how many took the silver bar.
Agreed. Shot to look like his stash of chocolate was dropping and he kept the silver for the entire pile of chocolate.
I do not believe that to be the case.
+1
Im a gambler, I'd been on it like white on rice. The Maple gold coins have a security feature that is unmistakable. But he did offer to go in the coin shop so they could verify it was real.
so Jn what is the security feature you speak of . would like to know[:)]quote:Originally posted by JnRockwall
Im a gambler, I'd been on it like white on rice. The Maple gold coins have a security feature that is unmistakable. But he did offer to go in the coin shop so they could verify it was real.
http://www.jmbullion.com/2015-1-oz-canadian-gold-maple-leaf/
The obverse side of the coin showcases a profile view of Elizabeth II. First introduced in 1979, these coins have become the cornerstones of the Royal Canadian Mint's offerings. Also available in silver and palladium, Canadian Maple Leaf Coins make for excellent investments and collectibles. Recent additions to the series are celebrated for their state-of-the-art security features that make them essentially impossible to counterfeit. Such features include radial lines machined to micron tolerances, as well as a privy mark that is extremely hard to replicate.
Brad Steele
Anyway, I really don't think this is as stupid as it looks.
It doesn't make any sense, its uncomfortable standing there in public being filmed (there is a camera guy there too) talking to a creepy stranger with a hand full of bars, and people's "BS detectors" go off. They assume this is some scam, or that if they take the bar, the guy is going to try some "hard sell" or something like that, so they take the chocolate and get out of there ASAP.
Also, silver simply isn't used as currency anymore, and most people simply aren't familiar with it, what its worth, or have any idea what to do with it. (EG, use it as a paperweight?).
watch his video of him trying to sell 1oz gold coin for $20. I bet he didnt hand any of those out and edit it.
If someone walked up to you on the street and offered to sell you a Rolex for $100, you'd decline too. No matter how they pitched it, you'd assume (with some justification) that it was a fake.
This is the exact same thing, and its a fairly old stunt. IIRC during the Great Depression some newspaper guy walked around trying to swap his $5 bills for others $1 bills and nobody took him up on it. The reason is because the whole setup stinks of a scam.
Why on earth would someone sell you something they have to know is worth $700 for $20? You know that's not 'right'.
Either they're a complete idiot, or they're trying to scam you. Again, since the guy is standing there with a cameraman, and doesn't appear to be an idiot, people's "BS detectors" go off and they assume its a scam. The possibility that the whole thing is an experiment to test human nature doesn't immediately spring to mind.
Same goes for Cartier...
People are stupid!
Rolex has 3 marks of authenticity you id with naked eye. While the ticking hand is the most glaring, the smooth movement is slowly being copied. But they are not perfect.
Same goes for Cartier...
Rolex knockoffs vary from incredibly bad, to so good, they're externally indistinguishable from the real thing, even to individuals who are accustomed to seeing real ones on a regular basis. Its mostly a question of who built the fake and at what cost.
EG, the better Rolex knockoffs cost several hundred dollars, use good hardware and high-end Swiss made automatic movements that have the exact same BPM as Rolexes and run every bit as smoothly. I don't think any human being can tell one from the other just by looking at the movement running. In fact, the better Swiss made movements are probably BETTER than the Rolex movements in terms of reliability and accuracy, but that's a different issue/question.
Some of the knockoffs even use authentic Rolex dials put into fake cases with fake movements. That's pretty rare, but its not entirely unheard of.
Obviously if a watch has a tick-tick-tick quartz movement, its not a Rolex, but in reality nobody builds fakes like that anymore. Even the low-end fakes use cheap automatic Chinese movements now, and the best of the Chinese movements are actually quite good, effectively clones of the Swiss movements built to spec.
I have a $30 Rolex "homage" (ie its a clone but not a fake, since its branded with a different brand and doesn't say "Rolex" anywhere on it) that I compared to a friends $5000 Rolex Submariner Anniversary side by side).
It was obviously not as good as the real deal (eg lens quality wasn't there, lume paint wasn't there, automatic movement was clearly inferior) and anyone who was a watch fan wouldn't be fooled for a second. Still, it was astounding to me just how good a knockoff it really is. From a few feet away you probably couldn't tell the difference, and if this one said "Rolex" on it, I think most unsophisticated observers wouldn't know it was a fake.