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  • November 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM #480994
    lostkitty
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    [quote=partypup][quote=lostkitty]It seems like you work awfully hard looking for stories to support your view. Must be time consuming.[/quote]

    LOL. Are you kidding? It took me 3 minutes! The stories supporting my view are everywhere now.[/quote]

    In this instance, 3 minutes, and add all the other “3 minute” postings, and all your replies, and it equals a whole lot of time. You’d been fairly quiet lately, and I was pretty sure you’d pop up with either a “buy gold now or suffer the life of a pauper” posting or you’d regurgitate the “world as we know it will end in 3 weeks” post soon. Guess you went with gold this time.
    You may be right for all I know – I am just commenting on the fact that you spend a lot of time telling us about your opinion. I think we get it already, and besides, you probably have better things to do before the US becomes a scary scary scary place to be.

    November 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM #480183
    Eugene
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    [quote=ucodegen]

    If some stranger approached you in the street and offered to sell you a car for $100, and he had keys & what looked like a legit title, would you go for it? Clearly an awesome deal. He’ll even let you inspect the car and make sure that it has seats, a steering wheel and an engine. All you have to do is fork over $100.

    Tongue in cheek here..

    Depends upon the car, condition and title. Unfortunately I have an unfair advantage. I have worked on cars since I was a very young kid, doing repairs w/o supervision when I was 14.. (first one was a waterpump). I would be in the equivalent position of a coin collector on this one…[/quote]

    You’re missing the point. One, you can’t test drive or even start the car (just like the coin buyer can’t do chemical analysis of the coin). Two, you can’t be sure that the seller is in position to sell you this car. Maybe he stole it and printed the title on a color printer. There are only two certainties:

    – You’ll be separated with $100 of your money and you’ll never see those $100 again
    – There is no such thing as a free lunch.

    November 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM #480348
    Eugene
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    [quote=ucodegen]

    If some stranger approached you in the street and offered to sell you a car for $100, and he had keys & what looked like a legit title, would you go for it? Clearly an awesome deal. He’ll even let you inspect the car and make sure that it has seats, a steering wheel and an engine. All you have to do is fork over $100.

    Tongue in cheek here..

    Depends upon the car, condition and title. Unfortunately I have an unfair advantage. I have worked on cars since I was a very young kid, doing repairs w/o supervision when I was 14.. (first one was a waterpump). I would be in the equivalent position of a coin collector on this one…[/quote]

    You’re missing the point. One, you can’t test drive or even start the car (just like the coin buyer can’t do chemical analysis of the coin). Two, you can’t be sure that the seller is in position to sell you this car. Maybe he stole it and printed the title on a color printer. There are only two certainties:

    – You’ll be separated with $100 of your money and you’ll never see those $100 again
    – There is no such thing as a free lunch.

    November 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM #480708
    Eugene
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    [quote=ucodegen]

    If some stranger approached you in the street and offered to sell you a car for $100, and he had keys & what looked like a legit title, would you go for it? Clearly an awesome deal. He’ll even let you inspect the car and make sure that it has seats, a steering wheel and an engine. All you have to do is fork over $100.

    Tongue in cheek here..

    Depends upon the car, condition and title. Unfortunately I have an unfair advantage. I have worked on cars since I was a very young kid, doing repairs w/o supervision when I was 14.. (first one was a waterpump). I would be in the equivalent position of a coin collector on this one…[/quote]

    You’re missing the point. One, you can’t test drive or even start the car (just like the coin buyer can’t do chemical analysis of the coin). Two, you can’t be sure that the seller is in position to sell you this car. Maybe he stole it and printed the title on a color printer. There are only two certainties:

    – You’ll be separated with $100 of your money and you’ll never see those $100 again
    – There is no such thing as a free lunch.

    November 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM #480789
    Eugene
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    [quote=ucodegen]

    If some stranger approached you in the street and offered to sell you a car for $100, and he had keys & what looked like a legit title, would you go for it? Clearly an awesome deal. He’ll even let you inspect the car and make sure that it has seats, a steering wheel and an engine. All you have to do is fork over $100.

    Tongue in cheek here..

    Depends upon the car, condition and title. Unfortunately I have an unfair advantage. I have worked on cars since I was a very young kid, doing repairs w/o supervision when I was 14.. (first one was a waterpump). I would be in the equivalent position of a coin collector on this one…[/quote]

    You’re missing the point. One, you can’t test drive or even start the car (just like the coin buyer can’t do chemical analysis of the coin). Two, you can’t be sure that the seller is in position to sell you this car. Maybe he stole it and printed the title on a color printer. There are only two certainties:

    – You’ll be separated with $100 of your money and you’ll never see those $100 again
    – There is no such thing as a free lunch.

    November 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM #481009
    Eugene
    Participant

    [quote=ucodegen]

    If some stranger approached you in the street and offered to sell you a car for $100, and he had keys & what looked like a legit title, would you go for it? Clearly an awesome deal. He’ll even let you inspect the car and make sure that it has seats, a steering wheel and an engine. All you have to do is fork over $100.

    Tongue in cheek here..

    Depends upon the car, condition and title. Unfortunately I have an unfair advantage. I have worked on cars since I was a very young kid, doing repairs w/o supervision when I was 14.. (first one was a waterpump). I would be in the equivalent position of a coin collector on this one…[/quote]

    You’re missing the point. One, you can’t test drive or even start the car (just like the coin buyer can’t do chemical analysis of the coin). Two, you can’t be sure that the seller is in position to sell you this car. Maybe he stole it and printed the title on a color printer. There are only two certainties:

    – You’ll be separated with $100 of your money and you’ll never see those $100 again
    – There is no such thing as a free lunch.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM #480374
    scaredyclassic
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    if someone offered to sell me a $100 bill for $10, of course I wouldn’t take it. But a gold coin…I’d have a look, break out my portable gold fake coin detector and cut a deal.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM #480541
    scaredyclassic
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    if someone offered to sell me a $100 bill for $10, of course I wouldn’t take it. But a gold coin…I’d have a look, break out my portable gold fake coin detector and cut a deal.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM #480904
    scaredyclassic
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    if someone offered to sell me a $100 bill for $10, of course I wouldn’t take it. But a gold coin…I’d have a look, break out my portable gold fake coin detector and cut a deal.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM #480985
    scaredyclassic
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    if someone offered to sell me a $100 bill for $10, of course I wouldn’t take it. But a gold coin…I’d have a look, break out my portable gold fake coin detector and cut a deal.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM #481206
    scaredyclassic
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    if someone offered to sell me a $100 bill for $10, of course I wouldn’t take it. But a gold coin…I’d have a look, break out my portable gold fake coin detector and cut a deal.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM #480384
    moneymaker
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    WAMU is no longer (it’s Chase now) and no need to stop by I believe they are paying .01% on their savings accounts and no that’s not a typo. I guess they don’t need my money any more now that the government has bailed them out with cash and artificially low interest rates.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM #480551
    moneymaker
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    WAMU is no longer (it’s Chase now) and no need to stop by I believe they are paying .01% on their savings accounts and no that’s not a typo. I guess they don’t need my money any more now that the government has bailed them out with cash and artificially low interest rates.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM #480914
    moneymaker
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    WAMU is no longer (it’s Chase now) and no need to stop by I believe they are paying .01% on their savings accounts and no that’s not a typo. I guess they don’t need my money any more now that the government has bailed them out with cash and artificially low interest rates.

    November 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM #480995
    moneymaker
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    WAMU is no longer (it’s Chase now) and no need to stop by I believe they are paying .01% on their savings accounts and no that’s not a typo. I guess they don’t need my money any more now that the government has bailed them out with cash and artificially low interest rates.

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