stella polaris
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butcher said:Notice how china and India value gold.
The whole Asia is in to gold by tradition. Middle East as well. The gold around the arms and necks on a female is not only decoration. Its often given to them, by tradition, as a security if something would happend. I have wondered many times how much gold the females of Asia and Midde East carry.
The price for gold items are lower in these countries than in West. In West you pay much more than the metal value. In Thailand for example you can even change items, to an other design, for a low fee.
In West we "normal" people now days have a diffrent approach to gold. Its glamour not security.
A little gold anekdote from my life
Once i stood looking at gold items in a middle East country. Two adult female from a Westen country stood in the same shop. I overheard following conversation
- Its really cheap here
- Yeah. Its fake gold. You can not trust these people
- Better not buying here then
- No, wait until we come home
I stood in a tax free shop at Abu Dabi international airport. :lol: