Buying gold

Richard

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Is numismatic or bullion currently a good investment?

Given all the radio ads for buying gold, I wonder if someone is leveraging the market ready to pounce when the magic number is reached.
 
From what I hear, no it is not. Those ads have been running for years. If it WERE a good investment they wouldn't have to tell you how good of an investment it was.
 
I bought into the Goldkit.com glitzy ad, really not expecting much. And got even less than I expected.

I gathered up all our old gold stuff laying around. High school class rings that had been sitting in a box in the basement, old wedding/engagement rings, earrings, etc. A FULL package and mailed it in the postage-paid envelope they provided (and said was insured).

Naturally, they said they never received it.
 
I ran some numbers to satisfy my own curiosity. Let's say that back in 1986 I decided to buy 200 ounces of gold once per year every year. Let's also say that I was incredibly prescient and every year I bought gold at the bottom of the market that year.

My total cost would have been $1,366,000 and the value of that gold today would be $2,700,000. A whopping compounded return of 6.2%, and that is assuming that I don't have to pay someone to store the 250 lbs of gold I would now own.

No thanks.


James Dean
 
I get the last two characters. But what's the first one?
 
James_Dean said:
I ran some numbers to satisfy my own curiosity. Let's say that back in 1986 I decided to buy 200 ounces of gold once per year every year. Let's also say that I was incredibly prescient and every year I bought gold at the bottom of the market that year.

My total cost would have been $1,366,000 and the value of that gold today would be $2,700,000. A whopping compounded return of 6.2%, and that is assuming that I don't have to pay someone to store the 250 lbs of gold I would now own.

No thanks.


James Dean
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Ahhh... but the return on running TV ads to tell people to mail in their GOLD jewelry TO MAKE HUGE CASH and then denying you got it is nearly 100%.

I like the idea. I could be RICH if I sold all of my assets. :rolleyes:

...otherwise I'll be rich by LOWERING MY PAYMENTS!
 
Gerhardt said:
I bought into the Goldkit.com glitzy ad, really not expecting much. And got even less than I expected.

I gathered up all our old gold stuff laying around. High school class rings that had been sitting in a box in the basement, old wedding/engagement rings, earrings, etc. A FULL package and mailed it in the postage-paid envelope they provided (and said was insured).

Naturally, they said they never received it.
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Wow, sounds like you're not the ONLY one with that experience:

http://www.epinions.com/content_219257540228/show_~allcom


Some state's Attorney General (and maybe the Postal Inspector) needs to be investigating where all the gold went.
 
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Larry Gatlin had it right...

All the gold in California
Is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name
So if you’re dreaming about California
It don’t matter at all where you played before, California’s a brand new game

Trying to be a hero, winding up a zero
Can scar a man forever, right down to your soul
Living on the spot light, can kill a man out right
Cause everything that glitters is not gold
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Water! Buy into water resources, utilities, desal. plants; it's our next boom industry!
(my broker almost laughed when I suggested it)
 
Richard said:
Given all the radio ads for buying gold, I wonder if someone is leveraging the market ready to pounce when the magic number is reached.
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More Likely they are waiting to sell when their advertising gets the price up enough. Beware of the time-honored "Pump and Dump" scheme.

-Skip
 
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