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Originally Posted by dyna mo
also, can you really buy at a local store with gold? how do they check the gold content?
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That little thing is approx $760 USD based on today's price. See the tiny stamp on it? Each gold shop stamps its own gold, just like elsewhere in the world. If it's a small amount they will take it after knowing what shop it is from, or they will just walk across the street or down the block and have it checked at another shop. Gold shops are EVERYWHERE in Asia. Think McDonalds, but with gold. If it's a large amount they will for sure have it checked out. There are not so many people faking it here like elsewhere. Yes, it happens, just not like it does in the western world.
What I've found is it is a heck of a lot easier to have a lot of little ones than to have big ones. If it's big, everyone wants to check it as that is what people do fake when they fake them. If it's small, they usually just take them.