Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoTo circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers.lemmy.nzimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1189arrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
Context : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/gold-bars-used-to-lure-chinese-homebuyers-amid-market-slowdown
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up32·2 years 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-up12·2 years agoI’d love something like that as a paperweight or door stop. Or to sit next to my trillion dollar coin
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·2 years agoI see you are prepared for the next Great Crisis.
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
I see you are prepared for the next Great Crisis.