Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoTo circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers.lemmy.nzimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1imageTo circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers.lemmy.nzLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
Context : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/gold-bars-used-to-lure-chinese-homebuyers-amid-market-slowdown
minus-squareczech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI’m interested in why the bar is so chewed up. Are they handing out fakes as well?
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoyou can commonly find tungstein cored gold bars at sites like alibaba.com for far cheaper than real ones. they are aparently pretty much indistinguishable from real bars without special equipment. aparently even some major banks found some in their inventories
minus-squareRaxiel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI’d love something like that as a paperweight or door stop. Or to sit next to my trillion dollar coin
I’m interested in why the bar is so chewed up. Are they handing out fakes as well?
you can commonly find tungstein cored gold bars at sites like alibaba.com for far cheaper than real ones.
they are aparently pretty much indistinguishable from real bars without special equipment.
aparently even some major banks found some in their inventories
I’d love something like that as a paperweight or door stop. Or to sit next to my trillion dollar coin