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[rusty]

Here is one from the UK.

1000 cats for $162,000

I am not sure if that is a good deal but it is what he writes that is a damn site more strange .......................................

LISTING DETAILS

1000 SCRAP CATALYTIC CONVERTERS

This Is A Rare Chance To Buy 1000 Catalytic Converters

PLEASE READ FULLY BEFORE CALLING OR EMAILING

We Have Been Instructed To Sell These Converters For A Customer, They Are All Fully Legally Obtained Cats And Are Various Shapes Sizes Grades Etc, All The Big Juicy Ones Have Not Been Taken Out, They Are As They Have Been Collected

PLEASE NOTE WE WILL NOT SELL THESE UNITS TO A ONE MAN BAND IN A VAN - THIS IS PURELY A GENUINE BUSINESS SALE

IF YOU CAN NOT PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF YOUR GENUINE BUSINESS DETAILS ETC WE WILL NOT ENTERTAIN YOU

PLEASE DO NOT Call To Make An Offer Or To Ask How Much They Are, You Will Only Be Wasting Yours And My Time

THESE UNITS WILL NOT BE BOUGHT OVER THE PHONE

We Would Like Any Prospective Purchasers To Email Their Full Business Details, Contact Numbers, Email Address And We Will Contact You To Discuss Further

Please Send Email To [email protected]

PLEASE NOTE, WE ALL KNOW THE VALUE OF 1000 CATALYTIC CONVERTORS, WE ARE NOT FOOLS AND WE DO NOT HAVE THESE HELD AT OUR PREMISES, WHICH ARE COVERED WITH 24 HOUR SECURITY MANNED CCTV AND DIRECT LINK TO THE POLICE STATION ANYWAY, SO DONT WASTE YOUR TIME THINKING YOU CAN COME ALONG TO BREAK IN AND STEAL THESE UNITS - THEY ARE NOT HERE AND EVEN IF WE WERE THAT STUPID, ID PERSONALLY SLEEP WITH THEM TO KEEP THEM SAFE

PERSONAL DELIVERY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD CAN ALSO BE NEGOTIATED

WE HAVE A VERY GOOD SECURITY FIRM TO SAFEGUARD THE ITEMS WHILST IN TRANSPORT - EXPORT ALWAYS A PLEASURE

APOLOGIES TO ALL SENSIBLE BIDDERS FOR THE LONG AMOUNT OF DETAILS BUT IM SURE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WITH THE AMOUNT OF MESSERS ON EBAY

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Here is the Ebay link - Silly Ebay Advert

I hope people find this as amusing as I did.

Check out the beaded cat in his picture, there's duct tape over the hole.

 

[macfixer01]

Here's an interesting twist I haven't seen before. This guy is asking $800 for this empty pocket watch case or $1000 buy-it-now. He apparently didn't get it tested but notes that it says inside "This case is guaranteed to be made of two plates solid gold throughout". If the "two plates" and "guaranteed" weren't a giveaway, a quick Google search for that whole exact phrase confirmed it. From what was said about similar watch cases on Google, it's got to be either gold filled or rolled gold?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/330601342687

macfixer01

 

[Harold_V]

From what was said about similar watch cases on Google, it's got to be either gold filled or rolled gold?

That's where I'd put my bet.

Harold

 

[Anonymous]

I had the pleasure of becoming friends with someone that bought one of these a couple of weeks ago http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220817271924
When you guys look at this auction,you need to realize that the price you are paying is for the anode,and cathodes! That's it! And the seller told him that he holds a patent on this setup.And he has sold 10 at that price!You have to watch video #1.....he says that he has used the same cathodes,and anodes,for 30 pounds of material,which is about 6 ounces of gold....I started laughing so loud my wife came to see what was going on.
My buddy also bought this http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320739379976 and it's also sold buy the same seller.
He read the directions to me......ready for this??? 2 cups of 3% peroxide added to 1 cup of muriatic acid.That's it. My buddy said that the print is very tiny and hard to read.If you look at his completed auctions http://completed.shop.ebay.com/loren320/m.html?rt=nc&LH_Complete=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3911.c0.m283 you'll see he has made quite a bit of money selling these "reports".Each auction shows how many he has sold of that item. I would say that he is selling info that he got from the forum....but from what I can see,it's wrong info.

 

[Palladium]

Here's the fellow selling them. That name sounds familiar.

http://www.youtube.com/user/norcorecovery

 

[Palladium]

I now know who he is.
http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/search.php?keywords=loren&terms=all&author=&sv=0&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

 

[Anonymous]

Very interesting.

 

[glorycloud]

He is a nice man. I think I spent the $9.99 for the gold or silver refining
information before I found this forum. It had some good information
in it and I did speak with him on the telephone.

If I ever make it to Minnesota, I will look him up and go fishing with him.
No ice fishing though! 8)

 

[macfixer01]

He is a nice man. I think I spent the $9.99 for the gold or silver refining
information before I found this forum. It had some good information
in it and I did speak with him on the telephone.

If I ever make it to Minnesota, I will look him up and go fishing with him.
No ice fishing though! 8)

I too bought a plan years ago from Loren for a stripping cell using Sulfuric Acid and Glycerin. That was back before I even heard of this forum, but I really don't know which one was around before the other. I believe Loren was demonstrating his setup in a Pyrex measuring cup at the time. It looks like he's copied Steve's container choice now.

macfixer01

 

[macfixer01]

Is there any way this buyer could end up making anything at that price? A pound and a half of gold CPU plates for $1625 seems excessive. A couple of the bags in the center seem to be a smaller size plate. I'm not sure that makes any difference if the base metal and plating thickness was the same since the yield per a given area would be the same?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/270805002166

macfixer01

 

[Palladium]

1/2 Pound of CPU Lids Yield Results

I finished up on the cpu lids today.

227 g of mixed cpu lids = 5.55 g yield.

5.55 / 227 = 2.445%

Not a bad yield, very near the yield of 1/20 12 kt gold filled scrap.

If you get your hands on some of the older milspec or aerospace cpu lids you can expect even better returns.

Steve

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1694&p=14517#p14576

 

[macfixer01]

1/2 Pound of CPU Lids Yield Results

I finished up on the cpu lids today.

227 g of mixed cpu lids = 5.55 g yield.

5.55 / 227 = 2.445%

Not a bad yield, very near the yield of 1/20 12 kt gold filled scrap.

If you get your hands on some of the older milspec or aerospace cpu lids you can expect even better returns.

Steve

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1694&p=14517#p14576

Thank you for the link Palladium. I seem to get very mixed results with searching here although I did locate Steve's original post just now using different keywords. So the short answer is No, they will lose money since at most they'll likely get 17 grams of gold from the plates.

Thanks again,
macfixer01

 

[Palladium]

For the love of god !!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aqua-Regia-500ML-Poly-Bottle-Gold-Refineing-Chemical-/110734017953?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c84305a1

 

[goldenchild]

It's 65% water and the nitric to HCL ratios are wrong anyway. Unbelievable.

 

[Anonymous]

You guys would not believe what I just found on this guy.It's pretty unbelievable.He,and his wife have one of the most bizarre (xxx) desires I believe I have ever seen,or heard of.And that was a discovery on a public domain.

 

[macfixer01]

It's 65% water and the nitric to HCL ratios are wrong anyway. Unbelievable.

I was going to suggest that assuming he isn't a total idiot maybe the description is just wrong? After all the picture is showing a bottle of Phosphoric Acid, which is totally irrelevant to this item. That's a big pet peeve of mine, lazy sellers who reuse photos and text from earlier auctions and don't double check to make sure it's correct. Especially when dealing with potentially dangerous chemicals. In any case I see he got a negative on August 18th saying the Aqua Regia the buyer received was very weak, so apparently he is mixing it incorrectly.

What no lurid details Mic? All I see is chemical sales as far as Ebay goes.

macfixer01

 

[Anonymous]

What no lurid details Mic?

Nope sorry Mac,I can't. I really wish I could,it is quite disturbing,but we need to keep on track here.

 

[Anonymous]

I knew this would happen sooner or later. A seller has used that infamous CPU yield list in an auction. And as if that is not bad enough,out of all of the yields for his style of chip(486-no gold lid),he chooses the highest yield to estimate how much gold is in HIS cpu's.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-75-pounds-486-processors-GOLD-recovery-/330606240153?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf9aae199

 

[Anonymous]

This has got to be one of the funniest.And he has several auctions like this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-recovery-Ram-each-16-grams-total-/250881373250?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a69b1f442

 

[butcher]

As gold rises so does the people trying to seperate you from your values.
we shall see much more of this. sad thing is many people will fall for these crooked deals.