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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1273342, member: 22143&quot;]Wholesale isn&#039;t defined by B2B transactions.&nbsp; It&#039;s defined by quantity, namely lack of individual unit pricing.&nbsp; A pack of tomatoes is a retail quantity and pricing.&nbsp;&nbsp; A truckload of tomatoes is wholesale.&nbsp;&nbsp; So a backyard farmer brings in 500 lbs of summer tomatoes to a distributer for resale to supermarkets.&nbsp;&nbsp; This isn&#039;t a retail transaction.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The same holds true for people selling scrap metal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even at today&#039;s prices, it would take 267 lbs of copper tubing, 700 lbs of copper wire,&nbsp; 1200 lbs of aluminium siding, 1300 lbs of cast aluminium, and 2 tons of scrap steel to trigger the $600 amount.&nbsp; These are not retail quantities.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly the French law would not address thievery of common metals as there are few crooks walking around with that much metal and even if they did and there was a junk yard stupid enough to pay them for this much metal at one time, it would not be considered a retail transaction.&nbsp; Would it address thievery of PMs?&nbsp; Maybe, maybe not.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think there is enough of a problem with gold being stolen that would warrent such a law being put in place just for that.&nbsp;&nbsp; Stolen gold is difficult to sell as most gold buyers are very careful in what they are buying.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What the law does do however is immediately put a record on every single gold coin or bar being bought and sold in France that is greater than 1/3 ounce.&nbsp;&nbsp; It immediately gives the goverment a tool to discover who is buying gold bullion coins and bars.&nbsp;&nbsp; If they are saying it&#039;s being done for security, it won&#039;t be the first time that people&#039;s freedoms have been sacrificed in the name of making us &quot;safer&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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