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Message:: [QUOTE="10gary22, post: 1346183, member: 23626"]I keep records of ALL my transactions !! And am frankly a bit insulted by what you are implying. As a Viet Nam veteran, I understand the importance of taxation to fund our military among other things. Cheating on one's taxes is not only dishonest, but simply un-American. If you don;t want to pay your taxes, I think you should move to some other country and deal with their government. As a Christian, paying taxes is commanded by Christ. How do you cheat knowing that ? The point of the thread was that I traded GOLD (a hard currency) for a promissary note issued by someone I don;t know. Now that is stupid. GOLD should be traded only for Currency ! Everyone, including myself know that. I made a mistake that novice traders make. You should NEVER trade money for a check. Your item of value is leaving your hands in return for possibly nothing more than a scrap of worthless paper. Every try and collect on a bad check ? Frankly, in my experience, most fraud is perpetrated by people who claim to be in business. Coin dealers who sell gold but offer to store it for people, then sell the same coins over and over, etc. If this business is honest, I don;t understand why they stamped "FOR DEPOSIT ONLY" on the back of the checks they issued. seems like they don;t have the money to pay for the item outright to me. I mean, they didn;t want me going to their bank. That spells "I ain't got the money" pretty clear, doesn't it ?[/QUOTE]