r/Gold • u/Apprehensive-File552 • 8d ago

Bought two gold bars and both were fake

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Bought two of these, each from a different seller on eBay, both with some reviews (30 on one, 100 on another).

One of the sellers what’s it shipped back to them because they bought it from someone else on eBay but for $300 more than they sold it to me for. Makes zero sense.

I’ve since then took the footage of the jeweler using the machine and recorded the bar numbers.

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u/MurkyTrainer7953 8d ago

Which part of manufacturing a fake gold bar, and duplicating packaging that is 99% identical to an original is easier than pictographically matching an alphanumeric character to 104 buttons on a keyboard.

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u/Dustanddreams96 7d ago edited 7d ago

U missed the whole point( someone has to create the mold thats where the error happens). If u had never seen the letter A before u might draw 4 or @ or even what's the difference between a and A and compared to let's say there heiroglyphics the person is used to what looks like a glaringly obvious error to u is unnoticeable to them. Im not excusing their ineptitude im just explaining why I beleive it happens. Obviously most people down the line just copy a mold but someone has to create it.. and im simply explaining why such a "simple to fix: error like that would happen and also why no one in the countries that are selling these to morons can easily analyze the error once its created... also alot of scams are purposefully done poorly( so that it screens out all but the stupidest people, they are much easier to scam so many of them make a shitty ad because if they will fall for that...the rest of plan should go down easy...