Yep this came to light around a year ago. I suppose the only way to be sure is to drill all of them out. :dead-horse:
I'm not chasing after it, I'm just saying there's plenty of protections in place and it's an environment that favors the buyers at the expense of the sellers. Of course FeeBay would issue a refund, it's what they do without giving sellers the benefit of the doubt. If the seller is persistent, then they might reverse the refund, but how often does that happen? :rollling:
I'm annoyed by the idiotic discussion on this topic which I see EVERYWHERE. 1) The examples are sooooo rare ("a bar was found at Heraeus..." "2 bars reported in Manhattan" etc.) our concern should be the dearth of common-sense here. 2) On closer examination, this 'fake story' reveal absurdities ... Russian "dealer who cannot be named" rooks a small-time refiner who paid what, exactly? LOL. http://www.cointalk.com/t213888-2/#post1566867 3) That numistmaster article is breathlessly speculative and supported by no evidence. OH PLEASE! If it's "easy" to counterfeit Gold bars w/ Tungsten - and wolfram has been known & worked for hundreds of years - where are all the counterfeits????
Jaun, fake gold bars are not uncommon, nor is it something new. Same goes for fake silver bars. And it is interesting to note that one of the biggest names there ever was in numismatics, John J. Ford Jr., was responsible for a lot of them. You might want to read this one of these days - http://www.cawa.fr/IMG/pdf/how.pdf
Please Juan... you know as well as I do that the only "gold" in Ft. Knox is gold-plated tungsten bars. Anyone believing otherwise is living in a dream world. Wake up to reality, my friend.