Topic: Gold for 0.5BTC Casascius Coin (Read 1675 times)

A final bump before I lock...BorderBits is a troll (as proven above), he states lies, and you should not listen to a word he says.
Also, I stand behind every trade I have made on these forums. Even the often mentioned "silver trade". The fact of the matter is, the buyer ended up with more silver than the original deal was for, because I sent it to him. Also, what BorderBits quoted from that is incorrect. I did not offer a refund, thats true. The guy knew he was buying backyard-poured ingots from a FIRST TIME smelter. It was mentioned several times that purity might be off.

The buyer said nothing for about a month after I sent him the ingots. Then he said he had them assayed and they ranged from 80 something-90 something% purity. First of all, I don't see how thats possible-I melted scrap sterling (925) silver and even added silver shot (.999 pure). When I asked the buyer to scan even just a copy of the receipt he had from when the assay was performed, he refused. He just kept telling me to call a number and that whoever was on the other end of the call would verify it.

As mentioned, the buyer ended up with more silver than the original deal was for. And I sent him silver in the form of Barber Halves, not a '64 quarter, so that part (along with basically the rest) is false.

Finally, when the buyer had more silver than he paid for, he turned it into a "purity vs. quantity" argument (sounds like a desperate attempt w/buyer's remorse). The thing is, that argument holds absolutely zero water in this case. I made these ingots in my YARD. They were not even ingots so much as silver blobs. I stamped .999 purity with a set of metal hand stamps I got at Ace Hardware. Do you think a seller would look at that, believe it to be .999 pure, and buy it? No way. I work at a coin store. The way it would have worked is this (if he wanted to sell them): we would perform an assay (because anyone can stamp a blob of silver with .999) regardless. Based on the purity, we would make him an offer. Then, along with other scrap silver (damaged foreign coins, primarily), we would send it to the refiner.

So to sum it up: If he walked into a shop with the ingots being .999 pure, he would have received less money than if he had taken the ingots to a shop (even at his "supposed purity") along with the other silver I sent him.

There are other lies and half-truths that I could address, but I won't. Honestly thats giving the trolls what they want. I have countless users who I have done business with and who could vouch for me. If I'm offering something for sale that you're interested in and for some reason you don't feel completely comfortable with me, I will have references (who are seasoned bitcointalk members) contact you to share their experiences with me.

Because of people like "BorderBits" who literally just try to destroy someone's reputation such that people are weary of doing business with them, my posts from now on will be self-moderated. I am officially done wasting another second of my life on trolls.

Oh look.  The incompetent man-child scammer needs "the man" to protect him.  Dumb fuck.   

How much do you make being a professional troll? And FYI "malevolent" is MOD for the Market place forums. You are all pathetic. Why do you take pleasure in making trouble with someone who has not wronged you-or anybody, actually (insert silver thread here). But you don't matter much to me anymore. Self-Moderated. These screenshots are VERY visually pleasant







Officially done

Let's not forget about the person you scammed, scammer:

How is it trolling to point out obvious scams by dumb scammers?  Johnniewalker, you were featured on Buttcoin.org -- the site that makes fun of the dumbest elements of bitcoin. That your stupidity eclipsed all the other stupidity that goes on should tell people to steer clear from your scams.   

Are you being serious? You are the incompetent one, claiming a coin is fake when its 100% not. Why should anyone believe a word you say if you just throw around FALSE accusations like that? And is it really beyond your mental capacity to understand my post? The guy never produced an assay receipt. The argument of "purity over quantity" does not even hold any water when you are talking about someone making (they were very ugly) ingots in their backyard-no one with half a brain (so everybody except you) would buy a hand-stamped bar NOT from a recognized mint without melting it down and assaying it first. And FINALLY, even if the bars were 90% Pure (Impossible because I melted only sterling and some 999 shot), I sent the guy more silver than he originally thought he was getting-in a form that he COULD sell.

I have a serious feeling you're on a hacked/purchased account. There is a reason you don't see literally stupid trolls with such a high post count.

Ignore this idiot. I sold my first (it was disclosed) ingots that I thought I had completely refined. So, I hand-stamped them with a set I got at Ace Hardware. (No matter the purity, no shop/refinery is going to buy silver anyway unless its from a recognized mint, not a backyard refinery. So, they would have had to melt it down anyway. In return for the purity not being what it was supposed to be-supposedly, the guy never could scan his assay receipt-I gave him way more silver than he paid for in the form of 90% coinage-which he could sell. He argued that it was "purity over quantity" he wanted. But when you're dealing with making backyard ingots-you can see how that argument just doesn't apply. For some reason trolls LOVE to talk about this. I can't even tell you how many trades I've done on this site-I would say over 100-and they have all gone without a hitch.

Why listen to someone who claims this coin is fake when (at least that I could find) there is not even a record of any fake ones ever existing? Not to mention hes just 100% wrong.
So Mods, please delete any further posts "BorderBits" leaves on this thread-thanks.

And like I said, if no one takes me up on this now, I have a feeling they will later. All I mean is this post (offer) is out there. Anyone can take it or leave it whenever they want.

Link?

Let's also not forget how johniewalker was running a scam with his "silver" ingots.

always interesting to read things like this, we'll probably see prices below $1000 soon... 

I hope you're kidding.... only current price matters.
I can tell you the same for bitcoin, it could be $500 by the end of the year...

Google says these are 22k, .0482oz.

As of today, spot would be $64, so I'd consider a fair price to be between $75-80. At $1500/oz, say $85-90.

Also as of today, with BTC-USD being around $125, I'd consider a 0.5oz 2013 brass round to be fairly priced at 0.9-1.0 BTC, or $115-125.

I'd certainly trade a 0.5 BTC Casascius brass round for a Dos Pesos coin + some other silver/gold coin, but I think the current terms of trade are a bit too stacked out of my favour

That said, watching this thread!

how much Oz of gold is this? and purity?

Normally I would be mad, but I am so entertained by your post because it is 100% WRONG. I bought it from the coin shop I work at. You're an idiot. No one needs any misinformed idiots moderating threads out of altruism.

You can have at it with the "you think its fake". Just realize the more you do the more you will make yourself look like a fool.

care to explain why?

Anyone who knows anything about the precious metals market knows that gold has recently taken a small dive. Of course it is impossible to predict the future, but I work at a coin store, talk to a  lot of people, and the consensus seems to be that Gold will be $1500/oz by the end of the year.

That being said, I would like to trade a Mexican Dos Pesos coin (an original, not a restrike-so it also has some numismatic value) for a 0.5 Casascius coin. If anyone wants to take me up on this offer, please PM me. If not now, I bet someone will find this post once gold has in-fact gone up and will take me up on the offer.