Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany 472
There are fewer hassles for an adventurer or business traveler bigger than lugging around bags of silver and copper pieces. Luckily TG-Gold-Super-Markt has installed gold vending machines in 500 locations including train stations and airports all across Germany. The machines charge about 30% more than the current trading price for gold, and are updated every few minutes. All are closely monitored by cameras, and like 3rd and 4th edition, electrum pieces are not accepted.
Re:30 Percent! (Score:4, Funny)
Captain Obvious, is that you? :)
Ouch (Score:5, Funny)
Poor kids (Score:5, Funny)
From TFA: "Because of the crisis there is a lot of awareness of gold," he said. "It is also a great gift for children for them getting gold is like a fairytale."
Imagine... you hand them a gold bar for those 250 bucks and they try to unwrap it for a few minutes before they realize, nope, it ain't chocolate.
Truely the gift of a wealthy sadist.
WoW? (Score:5, Funny)
Did anyone else read just the headline, and figure that some enterprising RMT had come up with a vending machine selling World of Warcraft currency?
Man, I need to interface with the real world more often.
Re:Extension of a "scam"? (Score:2, Funny)
Stuck Machine (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Im sorry (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why ... (Score:3, Funny)
Have you met any marketing departments?
Re:Im sorry (Score:4, Funny)
apocalypse currency
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Copper is King! (Score:4, Funny)
Copper currency is good because the copper has an intrinsic value.
So I am hoarding Pennies, pre 1982 pennies, made a machine to sort them out of the regular pennies and go to bank to buy all of the pennies that they have then sort out the pre 1982 pennies and cash back in to new pennies for older unsorted pennies. i figure a couple thousand dollars of copper in pennies (which I won't melt, but will hoard) are less of a rip off than buying gold. Copper is always useful.
I am also hoarding quarters, nickels and dimes as well just not in as high quantities as pennies. My goal is to get a few barrels of pure copper pennies. Them be really good barter tokens in an apocalyptic world.
Gold, pfaw, gold is for the elite asswipes who will rule the post apocalyptic fiefdoms, I am into copper cause I am going to become a mid class merchant who bakes bread, gets fed and maybe sells goods to the elite. The elite are goign to be involved in wars and stuff and probably be dangerous, I am going to be a merchant.
Re:Im sorry (Score:3, Funny)
you want *guns*.
And ammo. Lots of ammo.
Re:Interesting but inherently flawed! (Score:3, Funny)
Shit, you're right. Someone could have tampered with the gold - alloyed it with some cheap metal perhaps, taken the rest of the gold for themselves. How can we tell whether the gold is in fact truly gold?
I'm going to have to go and think about this. It's time for my bath anyway...
Re:Ouch (Score:2, Funny)
Mmmmmmm, carrots.
Re:30%? (Score:3, Funny)
You should see how well this business model works with drugs!
Holy shit... (Score:1, Funny)
this is funny. Keep it going...
Re:why? (Score:1, Funny)
>When you think about it, what's been more stable than *stuff*?
>*Spelling corrected
I can't believe you spelled stuff wrong... twice...
Re:Sell signal (Score:3, Funny)
I should start a fund to make it simpler.
Re:Im sorry (Score:1, Funny)
Who is Galt?
Re:30%? (Score:1, Funny)
Eats your money (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait... (Score:3, Funny)
who thought of putting latinum inside bricks of worthless gold.
Re:Stuck Machine (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ceiling at $980 (Score:4, Funny)