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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1602791, member: 75105&quot;]These bars are manufactured to deceive, and here is why. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can make these bars out of copper, which people know fully well what copper is.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also make them out of nickel, which people know what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you ask most people what &quot;German&quot; Silver is, they would probably think it&#039;s nothing but silver from....Germany.</p><p><br /></p><p>How does &quot;fine French silver&quot;, or &quot;fine Russian silver&quot; sound to you? It sounds like it came from France or Russia.</p><p><br /></p><p>We also have the American Silver Eagle. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now here is where it get&#039;s interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides naming the bar &quot;German&quot; silver, to make people think it&#039;s from Germany, it says .999 fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now wait a minute, German silver cannot be .999 fine. There are other metals in it. How can a mixture of metals be .999 fine? It can&#039;t. Maybe .543 copper,.432 Nickel, etc. That would be like calling a 14K gold ring .999 fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now we have added a fineness to it, this is the 2nd step in deceiving someone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now we have a one-two punch in deceiving someone. No one really collects these bars, they are just sold, in order to scam other people.</p><p><br /></p><p>But really, this is pretty mild compared to what else gets sold on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a peek at this.</p><p><img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1-OZ-WWII-BULLION-BAR-GERMAN-NAZI-PURE-24K-GOLD-LAYERED-3RD-REICH-IRON-CROSS-/00/s/Mzc1WDM3NQ==/$T2eC16NHJGwE9n)ySfM1BQf8D9esMQ~~60_12.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yup. No where does it say plated, 100 mills, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are always getting sold as &quot;WWII&quot; gold 24k plate bars.</p><p><br /></p><p>These bars are new.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now ask yourself, should something like this be allowed on eBay? In reality, it shouldn&#039;t. As these bars are not marked that they are just plated, people will buy these, in order to scam people. </p><p><br /></p><p>These is really no different then selling counterfeit coins on eBay that&#039; don&#039;t bear a &quot;copy&quot; stamp, </p><p><br /></p><p>eBay should really come up with new policies to ban the sale of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>But of course, as new rules get added, people will find more clever ways to sell more &quot;grey area&quot; stuff that dupes uneducated buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p>While we have little say in what eBay can do, we can all do our part and throw a little education out there, so people don&#039;t fall for this stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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