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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1490310, member: 75105&quot;]A lot of these bars do not sell. But what are the people who buy them doing with them? </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never seen anyone collect these, show me a person, with an ounce of education, who does, and I will retract my statement.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, what&#039;s the point and making and selling these? Who are you &quot;appealing too&quot;? No one would buy these if they actually knew what they were.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have to. See for yourself. Take a look at all the counterfeit products that have popped up in just 5 years. This kind of stuff is growing at an exponential rate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If a lid is not put on it, it just gets worse. I&#039;ve seen the quality of fake goods increase sharply.</p><p><br /></p><p>It get&#039;s harder and harder to tell the real thing from the fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s because sites like eBay, who try to turn a blind eye to this type of stuff, allow people to fund the counterfeiters. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then all the fake stuff infiltrates the US. If the quality becomes so good that you can&#039;t tell it apart, then your just funding the counterfeiters, and not the legitimate companies who produce this stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may think &quot;oh it&#039;s no big deal&quot;, and &quot;I should not worry about this&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>But in reality, you have little to no idea how bad it&#039;s gotten. I don&#039;t think anyone on this forum has even a iota of how bad it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go to yardsales, auctions, and flea markets. 10 years ago fake gold and silver was unheard of, yes it did it exist, but it&#039;s no where as common as it is now.</p><p><br /></p><p>We need to stop this ASAP. You cannot keep covering it up and pretending it will go away. It won&#039;t. It just keeps growing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Chinese companies who make the plated gold/silver bars, the &quot;nickel silver&quot; bars, are the same ones that make the fake coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason they sell this stuff, is to fund their counterfeiting operations. It&#039;s a facade they operate under. </p><p><br /></p><p>You, as a person, cannot put a stop to this.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you can tell everyone you know to stop buying these plated gold and silver bars, the german silver bars, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>If the word gets out, and more people know, then the less money the counterfeiters get.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s all I&#039;m here for. I realize I alone cannot stop this. But I can educate people, make them aware, and make sure they don&#039;t buy into this crap. You can do the same thing as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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