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[darshevo]

Here is another he sold at about the same price, but with much more of the material:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/120812977302

Buyer left good feedback, I wonder if that was before or after they processed? :mrgreen:

 

[eeTHr]

But he does clearly state "gold fingers from motherboards" leading one to beleive they are something they are not.

Oh no not another deceptive feebay seller. :shock:

Tom C.

It just says "COMPUTER FINGERS FOR SCRAP PROCESSING," at the top title, and below in the large font it says, "FINGERS THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM MOTHERBOARDS."

Maybe he is reading the forum, and changed it.

"Fingers" from "motherboards"? Maybe they were clipped off a digital clock "motherboard," but I dont see any card-edge fingers on those.

And now he's selling more!

:?:

 

[macfixer01]

If you liked that auction how about this one? If you can figure out what exactly he's selling 40 Grams of for $1875 then you should win a prize. When I first read it I thought it said Recovered Fillings, and I was thinking of dental caps so the picture really confused me. Then I realized the word was filings, which one expects would be coarse dust as if from a file, grinder, or saw. The picture is apparently the actual vials of gold for sale, and also what he says is an equivalently weighted gold bar for comparison. The "Recovered Filings" don't appear to be recovered at all. They actually seem to be the same fake gold flakes being sold everywhere on Ebay, and to me the PAMP gold bar looks to be no more than maybe a 5 Gram specimen? I have some of their one ounce bars and even with those the bar fills much more of the cutout area in the card. Besides PAMP doesn't make a 40 Gram that I know of. Of course he's a 0 feedback new seller as of 12/01/11. Otherwise I bet we could find the auction where he bought these flakes on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/120825521312

macfixer01

 

[joem]

If you liked that auction how about this one? If you can figure out what exactly he's selling 40 Grams of for $1875 then you should win a prize. When I first read it I thought it said Recovered Fillings, and I was thinking of dental caps so the picture really confused me. Then I realized the word was filings, which one expects would be coarse dust as if from a file, grinder, or saw. The picture is apparently the actual vials of gold for sale, and also what he says is an equivalently weighted gold bar for comparison. The "Recovered Filings" don't appear to be recovered at all. They actually seem to be the same fake gold flakes being sold everywhere on Ebay, and to me the PAMP gold bar looks to be no more than maybe a 5 Gram specimen? I have some of their one ounce bars and even with those the bar fills much more of the cutout area in the card. Besides PAMP doesn't make a 40 Gram that I know of. Of course he's a 0 feedback new seller as of 12/01/11. Otherwise I bet we could find the auction where he bought these flakes on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/120825521312

macfixer01

three facts that don't actually relate to the item and actual gold.

here I will rewrite it

Approximately 40 grams of recovered gold COLOURED filings OF SOME SORT OF METAL. For comparison, the picture includes gold COLOURED filings available WHEN MELTED in this auction to an equivalently SOME UNKNOWN METAL THAT BY COINCIDENCE IS THE SAME AS THE weighted gold COLOURED bar. Price reduced to correlate with the recent downturn in gold markets this week BECAUSE I WANT YOU THINK IT'S ACTUAL GOLD WITHOUT SAYING SO AND STATING THE MARKET DOWNTURN WILL REMOVE YOUR RATIONAL THINKING AND SCARE YOU INTO MAKING AN IMPULSE ONLINE PURCHASE.
HOPE I CAN TAKE YOUR MONEY FROM YOU AT THE END OF THIS USELESS AUCTION AND DISSAPEAR AND START ANOTHER NEW ZERO RATING AUCTION.

 

[philddreamer]

How about the Q's & A's :
"Q: Hello The seller, I am interested in buy this your item so give me back your private email to talk. this is my private email [email protected] i await your private email to talk

A: I am only interested in conducting transactions through e-bay. Thanks!"

HAH!

 

[philddreamer]

No one took the bait!!! :mrgreen:

Here's another one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WHOLESALE-500-GOLD-FLAKE-VIALS-40-GRAMS-SILVER-LEAF-/270785149394?_trksid=p4340.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUA%26otn%3D5%26pmod%3D120825521312%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D4887309253099905176

 

[Gold]

I SENT THE GUY THIS LASTNIGHT- "i dont understand why you think someone is gonna give a guy with 0 feedback almost 2k of their hard earned cash for something that doesnt even contain any precious metals. also didnt know PAMP made a 40 gram bar either. i guess you learn something new everyday. maybe ill start selling this foil and rip off a few people. on second thought i like my sleep too much and anyone with a conscious would net try to misrepresent their items to gain profits from uninformed customers who probably have no idea what you are selling in the first place. i strongly urge you to end this auction while you can before you cause yourself and others harm."

THIS IS WHAT I GOT IN RETURN- "This is my 1st time using e-bay. Local gold buyers were only offering me $1500 so I thought I could get closer to market value on e-bay. Not sure why you think this is a scam. That is a one gram PAMP bar. These gold filings are not as dense as the bar so take up a little more space - that's why 1 gram looks bigger, but still only weighs one gram. "

 

[goldenchild]

I think these deceptive pieces of trash are taking advantage of gold’s recent plummet to unload their junk. They are taking advantage of the uninformed’ desire to get gold while it’s low. If you haven’t noticed, these “gold foil” auctions are flooding the gold section of ebay right now. Scammers get me particularly angry. Hopefully what they put out in the world comes back 100 fold.

 

[kuma]

Hello all , how are things?
I hope all is well! :mrgreen:

But he does clearly state "gold fingers from motherboards" leading one to beleive they are something they are not.

Oh no not another deceptive feebay seller. :shock:

Tom C.

It just says "COMPUTER FINGERS FOR SCRAP PROCESSING," at the top title, and below in the large font it says, "FINGERS THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM MOTHERBOARDS."

Maybe he is reading the forum, and changed it.

"Fingers" from "motherboards"? Maybe they were clipped off a digital clock "motherboard," but I dont see any card-edge fingers on those.

And now he's selling more!

:?:

I'm not saying that this seller isn't full of it , but it came as a supprise to me that the bigger load of computers that I picked up a couple of months back had fingers on the motherboards , although they weren't attached to anything ;

http://tinyurl.com/3turos2

http://tinyurl.com/3nzkl6k

They are out there! :mrgreen:
All the very best and kind regards ,
Chris

 

[darshevo]

I'm not saying that this seller isn't full of it , but it came as a supprise to me that the bigger load of computers that I picked up a couple of months back had fingers on the motherboards , although they weren't attached to anything ;

http://tinyurl.com/3turos2

http://tinyurl.com/3nzkl6k

They are out there! :mrgreen:
All the very best and kind regards ,
Chris

I love those 240/260 dell boards. Those expansion riser fingers make a nice bonus

 

[macfixer01]

I SENT THE GUY THIS LASTNIGHT- "i dont understand why you think someone is gonna give a guy with 0 feedback almost 2k of their hard earned cash for something that doesnt even contain any precious metals. also didnt know PAMP made a 40 gram bar either. i guess you learn something new everyday. maybe ill start selling this foil and rip off a few people. on second thought i like my sleep too much and anyone with a conscious would net try to misrepresent their items to gain profits from uninformed customers who probably have no idea what you are selling in the first place. i strongly urge you to end this auction while you can before you cause yourself and others harm."

THIS IS WHAT I GOT IN RETURN- "This is my 1st time using e-bay. Local gold buyers were only offering me $1500 so I thought I could get closer to market value on e-bay. Not sure why you think this is a scam. That is a one gram PAMP bar. These gold filings are not as dense as the bar so take up a little more space - that's why 1 gram looks bigger, but still only weighs one gram. "

Yeah I see he re-wrote the description when he relisted the auction, but it looks like that auction closed unsold also. He stated the vials shown contain 1 gram of gold and the bar is 1 Gram for comparison (the whole auction being for approximately 40 Grams). Gotta love that world approximately, it can cover a world of sins! Obviously they aren't filings or dust, since they aren't dense enough. For the same reason they really aren't likely something he recovered. He'd be crazy to go to the trouble of turning it into flake himself then list it for over $200 under spot, so that's misleading. They look the same as all the other gold-colored flakes sold in vials on Ebay. The only question still remaining is are they real 24K gold? I sure wouldn't take a chance on it.

macfixer01

 

[goldenchild]

I saw this auction and had to immediately come here. Tell me if you were as shocked after reading the description.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300639211985

P.S. I contacted the seller about this auction

 

[bigjohn]

"Unknown Total Amount of FINAL Gold Content
contains traces of nitric acid ( please wash )"

Thant sums it all up. :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

If it contains traces of nitric,then he didn't remove any of the gold.If anything,the percentage of gold-to-base metals is higher.

 

[darshevo]

Isn't the nitric used as a quick test to determine if its real, or does that only work on silver?

 

[Anonymous]

Isn't the nitric used as a quick test to determine if its real,

Yes

or does that only work on silver?

Nitric will fully dissolve Silver,and base metals,so I do not believe you differentiate between the two,when using nitic as a testing solution.

 

[Harold_V]

Nitric will fully dissolve Silver,and base metals,so I do not believe you differentiate between the two,when using nitic as a testing solution.

Not exactly true. If you're testing sterling or even coin silver, the resulting solution will have but a hint of blue or green color, and the surface, after a drop has been applied, tends to turn a rather dark cream color. You can ascertain if it's silver, or not, assuming you have any doubts, by adding a crystal of salt, or a drop of HCl, which will yield the familiar silver chloride precipitate.

Needless to say, a more reliable test for silver is Schwerter's solution.

Harold

 

[goldenchild]

When I contacted the seller I told him that the "traces of nitric" could be a huge liability for him. This is what he wrote back:

"YOU OBVIOUSLY DONT KNOW HOW TO READ WELL. **TRACES** OF NITRIC FROM TESTING FOR SOLID GOLD NOT RECOVERED AT ALL LIKE STATED IN THE LISTING

YOU ARE NOW BAND FROM MY AUCTIONS
HAVE A GREAT DAY"

I see nothing mentioned about testing. I've also been banned (or put in a band?) from his auctions. Oh woe is me

Someone has also bid. I guess they got nervous about his refiner calling him back.

 

[Harold_V]

What will you be playing in this band? Saxophone?

Harold

 

[Anonymous]

I thought you guys would have a field day with this one.Make sure and look at his feedback!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4in-DREDGE-CONCENTRATE-GOLD-PANNING-40LB-NUGGET-BUCKET-1-OUNCE-GOLD-/180664768751?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a107598ef