I am not buying plastic cards with gold, I am buying gold embedded in a plastic protective card.
Yes you are - you're buying 98.6% plastic with 1.4% gold. That's a plastic card with a tiny bit of gold inside.
I may personally prefer the 1 gram sizes, however, there are those who prefer to have 2.5 gram weights, and still others who prefer the 5 gram weights. The card is made into the same size as a credit card for convenience and uniformity. What you completely miss is the fact that pure 24 Karat gold is extremely soft. The card acts as BOTH a protective sheath, as well as a certificate of authenticity that travels with the gold.
It's true that 999.9 gold is very soft. But the question is why do you need to own 999.9 gold? You can get gold alloyed with, for example, titanium and get the
same quantity of actual gold, in an alloy that is much better than the gold-in-a-condom you peddle.
Most people are unaware that the majority of gold coins & bars lose their certification the moment they leave the vault. The burden of proof is on the bearer. Anyone who has ever received a fake bar or coin will understand the value of this. The hologram that adorns the back of the gold piece is an additional security feature that ensures the gold cannot be tampered with, without it being easily noticeable. This ensure that any merchant or store clerk can easily verify that it is a genuine karatbar, and not a fake. Infact, one does not even have to have been the recipient of a fake bar or coin to recognize the value of having a piece of privately issued LBMA gold that is not subject to government recall or confiscation, that is always LBMA certified for weight & purity, and acceptable for settlement of debts worldwide.
So you are asserting that it's impossible for someone to make a counterfeit Karatbar? That's an
extraordinary claim. Is it one that you
really intend to make? If so, challenge accepted. Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is and enter into a legally binding contract stating that you will examine up to 10 Karatbars that I present to you using whatever techniques you claim merchants and store clerks can use and point out the fake one? If you successfully identify the counterfeit bar, I'll pay you $5,000. If you don't, you'll pay me $5,000.
In addition, no other gold bar or coin comes with a network of merchants & businesses that have agreed to accept it as a form of exchange for goods & services.
Show me one restaurant in Las Vegas that accepts your silly little plastic card in lieu of currency. Or a car dealer. Or a grocery store. And while you're at it please let me know how I can pay my bill using Karatbars and get change back? Remember, I dislike fiat currency and want gold-in-a-condom back!
The value & benefits to owning & acquiring this form of gold are readily apparent to me, and all others who acquire it. If it is not readily apparent to you, fortunately, there is no law that says you must either acquire it or accept it. The same unfortunately cannot be said of Federal Reserve notes that surreptitiously steal the value of both our labour & our wealth.
The "value & benefits" are readily apparent to you because you are an idiot.
I have no desire to get into a Karatbars discussion here.
Of course you don't - you've been trounced so much already... who can blame you?
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Ooh. A live webcast? Is it better than that youtube presentation you spammed on here, where a guy with an IQ of 1.77 was showing charts made with Microsoft Works 95 and trying to eat his microphone?