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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2747263, member: 1892"]As I've mentioned before, I have been watching them rather closely since they first appeared on my radar, a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Back then, pretty much everything they offered looked so nasty that I assumed they were buying flooded/corroded collections for pennies on the dollar and reselling them on Ebay. Thy didn't mention damage then, either. To my mind, ever since they've skated right at the sharp edge of morality without going past it. They're telling people, "Be informed!" and then catering to those who aren't.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=70583]@jwitten[/USER] has an easier time of them partly because he <b>is</b> informed, partly because gold is a noble metal which does not corrode easily yet soft enough to show physical damage quickly, and partly because GSC's usual demographic doesn't generally buy gold so he's kind of a shark in the waters there. Not that they'd have any trouble selling gold without him, but they're not on the gold specialist's radar so he doesn't have much expert competition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2747263, member: 1892"]As I've mentioned before, I have been watching them rather closely since they first appeared on my radar, a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Back then, pretty much everything they offered looked so nasty that I assumed they were buying flooded/corroded collections for pennies on the dollar and reselling them on Ebay. Thy didn't mention damage then, either. To my mind, ever since they've skated right at the sharp edge of morality without going past it. They're telling people, "Be informed!" and then catering to those who aren't. [USER=70583]@jwitten[/USER] has an easier time of them partly because he [B]is[/B] informed, partly because gold is a noble metal which does not corrode easily yet soft enough to show physical damage quickly, and partly because GSC's usual demographic doesn't generally buy gold so he's kind of a shark in the waters there. Not that they'd have any trouble selling gold without him, but they're not on the gold specialist's radar so he doesn't have much expert competition.[/QUOTE]
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