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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blissskr, post: 1697825, member: 34882&quot;]I don&#039;t get why people buy items without having the slightest clue as to what they&#039;re doing. That bar doesn&#039;t look like silver to me at all, it looks like the bars my uncle uses to make cod jigs with which are coated lead or steel I believe. This is how scammers operate using naivety against people to work their scams. The guy most likely gave you a fake name, address and the phone number will be changed or disconnected next time you call probably. If your going to be buying silver/gold from deals made online from sites like Craigslist etc firstly meet in a safe public location. Second bring an acid test kit, a file, loupe, rare earth magnet, scale,etc and avoid losing potentially hundreds of dollars. You can never be to careful and there is that saying &#039;a fool and his money are soon parted&#039;. Remember rarely is there such thing as a free lunch, once in awhile we all get a lucky good deal but you really have to vet and use reason versus jumping all in on what seems like an awesome deal or you end up rushing headfirst in and being left with a headache later on.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I&#039;ve bought some gold coins both off Ebay and even from my local coin shop that upon acid testing came out as being 14K jewelry replicas and not the 22K purity that they were supposed to be. The coins types being mexican dos pesos and dos y medio pesos in case anyone&#039;s wondering. There are lots of 2/2.5 gold mexican pesos that fool even dealers because people weigh, look at and forgo acid testing. I&#039;ve commonly run across these gold peso replicas especially the &#039;restrike&#039; dates of 1945, at this point I&#039;d say roughly half the ones I&#039;ve come across have been 14K fakes and very convincing ones versus real .900 fine gold/22K that they are supposed to be.&nbsp; In fact since I buy these coins for bullion value only I have no issue acid testing these coins to be sure I&#039;m not getting the short end of the stick. Any dealer who refuses to test the coin or let me do it in front of them, I take my business elsewhere because there is such a high quantity of replica restrikes that are only 14K versus 22K it&#039;s very easy to get suckered, although at least you still get some gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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