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The1GramMan

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    The1GramMan reacted to MickB in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    If you hit the link for the 1oz it's no longer available to purchase. They must have realised a bit late that spot price has moved quite a bit.
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    The1GramMan reacted to MickB in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    Same person rang me on a withheld number and was very polite. He tried the same with me but I said I only buy bullion and was ok with that. Should be with me next week. 
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    The1GramMan reacted to Pohaku in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    Update: CPM just called me from a withheld number (lucky to get me to pick TBH) to try and upsell from these 1oz ingots to the 50g proof at 5x the price.  The guy was polite and not at all pushy, and confirmed my ingots will despatched in the next couple of days. Let's see. They'll be under spot by the time I receive them at this rate 😆
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from Gibson96 in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    Ahhh ok well thank you for that. Any company that has been misleading has hidden agendas in my opinion, I will give this a miss thank you @trp
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    The1GramMan reacted to Paul in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    I'm 43 now and through my twenties, i guess I must have staked and wasted around £75k-£100k at a rough guess through FOBTs, online poker and land based casinos.
    Some good days but it all quickly went back as losings in the end.
    I went cold turkey at 30-31 and managed a few months until i relapsed again.
    Told myself never again.
    It was this time I found about gold, since 2008-2009 I have bought investment gold every month, a gold sovereign here, a half sovereign there, 1/2 oz on a good month, a full oz of fine gold when bonus from work.
    What this did was separate actual cash i could gamble and move it into another tangible thing with value that i couldn't easily spunk away or spend.
    Slowly but surely, my gold stack has grown, every month, as i would buy a another gold coin every fortnight or so.
    The ancient Aztecs called Gold 'the sweat of the sun'
    Blood, sweat, tears and toil getting it out of the ground.
    YOUR blood sweat and tears represents how hard you have worked to get this coin you now hold, and continue to hold ongoing.
    Your pile of gold increases monthly.
    Gold is also a little bit of a gamble, it will never go to zero, it has been money for 5,000+ years, and can also go up in value
    Currently im now VERY nicely up in £ terms if i chose to cash in and take some profits.
    A quote stuck with me quite prophetically, as i've never believed in loans or credit cards.
    “Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.” ― Norm Franz, Money & Wealth in the New Millennium: A Prophetic Guide to the New World Economic Order
    The bigger my gold stack grows the more satisfied I become and want more. A positive kind of addiction.
    I have not yet cashed in one single coin for gambling and my investment pile has grew.
    I have cashed gold in here on the forum and realized better than dealer prices to increase my business and expand/buy new vans/staff/tech
    This degree of separation that takes place between the gold coin and actual cash i can spunk gambling is awesome.
    Yet i know at a glance my total gold grams i have on any given day, and know how much it is worth should i cash in.
    When money is in a bank AC it is just like figures on a screen to me, cash in my hand just gambling token/betting voucher credits.
    I could never hold onto money while it was in a bank account, savings account would be were there for good intention but the money came out for gambling.
    Gold doesn't do that for me, the degree of separation between between the time and effort it takes to cash in a gold coin, packing posting, sending, waiting for bank transfer for payment etc. is a few days minimum.
    By which times my urge to gamble has long since past.
    whilst i will always have that gamble bug inside me, i cant extinguish that flame as i like to to take risks, i'm self employed and risk = reward. and i have done well working over the years.
    I still have my monthly little gamble, but as my priority with my spare cash is always to buy a minimum amount of gold, i'm never exposed to loose mega money EVER, fact these days, as the money isn't there because it has been converted from one asset class cash into another asset gold.
    The small amount i assign myself to have a gamble is minimal, £100 or £200 for a month. should i win, i actually treat myself to some more gold coins for my stack.
    With doing this approach and putting what used to be gambling stake money cash into gold, i've got my good nest egg of gold if i cashed it in from my safe deposit box.
    I purposely store the gold in a safety deposit centre in a city that is over 2 hours drive/train ride away to resist the sudden urge to gamble/cash in.
    A financial advisor would tell you it is stupid and daft to put all your eggs in one basket with one asset/investments, but to a gambler?
    would i sooner have this,  lots of gold is much better than having nothing at all, **** all to show for it - so it works for me
    Knowing this fall back of savings is there for any of lifes eventualities makes me sleep wonderfully at night.
    This approach may not be for everyone but if you can never hold onto money it has worked wonders for me.
    Sorry for the rambles length here today but to those nodding their head to this and this life course maybe sounds a familiar path to yours, if my narrative resonates with you, give gold a try. please try it, you might just like it, or start just buying gold with your big wins.
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from KevinFlynn in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    My fascination was realised only recently, i had a company for 9 years that was giving me a very reasonable living and i was 4 months away from getting a mortgage when unfortunately I had to contact the insolvency services to close my company, I was renting at the time and had to leave due to not being able to afford staying there. Me, my wife and my son was made homeless and lived in a hotel for a week until we was moved into a hostel, most horrible place I have ever been and not very nice people living in there either. Never will I let my family be i a place like that again.
    We finally got a permanent place with the council after being moved about 3 times, unfortunately my credit was now utterly devastated I cannot get credit for anything I cannot get mortgage but i am working hard to repair. 
    The worst thing is knowing you can afford a mortgage but no one will give you one.
    Not being able to get A mortgage i wanted to put my efforts into a new source of investment. I was watching gold rush, watched every season on sky, now I am hooked and am hoping that along with my general savings that my venture into gold will help me along in the future to repairing the horrible couple of years i have had.
    I'm hoping gold and silver will help me along the way. 
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from Stuntman in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    My fascination was realised only recently, i had a company for 9 years that was giving me a very reasonable living and i was 4 months away from getting a mortgage when unfortunately I had to contact the insolvency services to close my company, I was renting at the time and had to leave due to not being able to afford staying there. Me, my wife and my son was made homeless and lived in a hotel for a week until we was moved into a hostel, most horrible place I have ever been and not very nice people living in there either. Never will I let my family be i a place like that again.
    We finally got a permanent place with the council after being moved about 3 times, unfortunately my credit was now utterly devastated I cannot get credit for anything I cannot get mortgage but i am working hard to repair. 
    The worst thing is knowing you can afford a mortgage but no one will give you one.
    Not being able to get A mortgage i wanted to put my efforts into a new source of investment. I was watching gold rush, watched every season on sky, now I am hooked and am hoping that along with my general savings that my venture into gold will help me along in the future to repairing the horrible couple of years i have had.
    I'm hoping gold and silver will help me along the way. 
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    The1GramMan reacted to Ravoma in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    To stop my misses spending my money.
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from MickB in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    My fascination was realised only recently, i had a company for 9 years that was giving me a very reasonable living and i was 4 months away from getting a mortgage when unfortunately I had to contact the insolvency services to close my company, I was renting at the time and had to leave due to not being able to afford staying there. Me, my wife and my son was made homeless and lived in a hotel for a week until we was moved into a hostel, most horrible place I have ever been and not very nice people living in there either. Never will I let my family be i a place like that again.
    We finally got a permanent place with the council after being moved about 3 times, unfortunately my credit was now utterly devastated I cannot get credit for anything I cannot get mortgage but i am working hard to repair. 
    The worst thing is knowing you can afford a mortgage but no one will give you one.
    Not being able to get A mortgage i wanted to put my efforts into a new source of investment. I was watching gold rush, watched every season on sky, now I am hooked and am hoping that along with my general savings that my venture into gold will help me along in the future to repairing the horrible couple of years i have had.
    I'm hoping gold and silver will help me along the way. 
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from Stu in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    My fascination was realised only recently, i had a company for 9 years that was giving me a very reasonable living and i was 4 months away from getting a mortgage when unfortunately I had to contact the insolvency services to close my company, I was renting at the time and had to leave due to not being able to afford staying there. Me, my wife and my son was made homeless and lived in a hotel for a week until we was moved into a hostel, most horrible place I have ever been and not very nice people living in there either. Never will I let my family be i a place like that again.
    We finally got a permanent place with the council after being moved about 3 times, unfortunately my credit was now utterly devastated I cannot get credit for anything I cannot get mortgage but i am working hard to repair. 
    The worst thing is knowing you can afford a mortgage but no one will give you one.
    Not being able to get A mortgage i wanted to put my efforts into a new source of investment. I was watching gold rush, watched every season on sky, now I am hooked and am hoping that along with my general savings that my venture into gold will help me along in the future to repairing the horrible couple of years i have had.
    I'm hoping gold and silver will help me along the way. 
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    The1GramMan reacted to PJRay in Anonymity   
    If the government ever wanted to get their hands on your gold, there are much easier ways of going about it than kicking down doors at 6 a.m. to ransack a house because of some receipt from HGM a decade ago.
    Why go to all that difficulty and expense when you could make the sale of gold illegal... unless the buyer is the government. That'd hoover most of it up. Sure you could 'stick it to the man' by burying your stash in the woods, but you nor your kids would ever be able to realise its value unless you sold it on a gold black market. Then the government could go after the black market instead. That'd be more effective than chasing the ghosts of some old receipt, less messy than interrogation and a hell of a lot cheaper than locking people up.
    That's the way I'd do it. 😈
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from Espana123 in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    My fascination was realised only recently, i had a company for 9 years that was giving me a very reasonable living and i was 4 months away from getting a mortgage when unfortunately I had to contact the insolvency services to close my company, I was renting at the time and had to leave due to not being able to afford staying there. Me, my wife and my son was made homeless and lived in a hotel for a week until we was moved into a hostel, most horrible place I have ever been and not very nice people living in there either. Never will I let my family be i a place like that again.
    We finally got a permanent place with the council after being moved about 3 times, unfortunately my credit was now utterly devastated I cannot get credit for anything I cannot get mortgage but i am working hard to repair. 
    The worst thing is knowing you can afford a mortgage but no one will give you one.
    Not being able to get A mortgage i wanted to put my efforts into a new source of investment. I was watching gold rush, watched every season on sky, now I am hooked and am hoping that along with my general savings that my venture into gold will help me along in the future to repairing the horrible couple of years i have had.
    I'm hoping gold and silver will help me along the way. 
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from Ravoma in Your gold story. How it happened.   
    My fascination was realised only recently, i had a company for 9 years that was giving me a very reasonable living and i was 4 months away from getting a mortgage when unfortunately I had to contact the insolvency services to close my company, I was renting at the time and had to leave due to not being able to afford staying there. Me, my wife and my son was made homeless and lived in a hotel for a week until we was moved into a hostel, most horrible place I have ever been and not very nice people living in there either. Never will I let my family be i a place like that again.
    We finally got a permanent place with the council after being moved about 3 times, unfortunately my credit was now utterly devastated I cannot get credit for anything I cannot get mortgage but i am working hard to repair. 
    The worst thing is knowing you can afford a mortgage but no one will give you one.
    Not being able to get A mortgage i wanted to put my efforts into a new source of investment. I was watching gold rush, watched every season on sky, now I am hooked and am hoping that along with my general savings that my venture into gold will help me along in the future to repairing the horrible couple of years i have had.
    I'm hoping gold and silver will help me along the way. 
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from MickB in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    Thanks for your invite buddy can you let me know on here if all goes well 
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    The1GramMan reacted to MickB in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    I was sent the link yesterday as I thought it was odd that I couldn't find it on their website. I've given it a go but I am expecting a phone call from them trying to upsell the 50 gram version to me. I'm prepared for a long chat at their expense.
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from InvestInCoins888 in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    Yes i agree looking at it it does seem to good to be true. Would you take the risk?
    Thanks for your advice @InvestInCoins888
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    The1GramMan reacted to InvestInCoins888 in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    In my experience well over 50% of business that advertise on FB turn out to be scam. FB seems to make no effort whatsoever to remove these scam artists, prefers to profit from them and create a virtual Wild West.
    With this advert, it just seems to good to be true. A company has overheads, packaging, postage, employees, unless this is a loss leader product, this sounds to good!
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    The1GramMan reacted to trp in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    It is there, just classed as a 50g ingot for £125, not a 1oz for £25.00. I would recommend caution with this site as they have been known to be quite misleading. Here is the link if it is of interest: 
    https://www.cpmcoins.com/p-676J/2020-Battle-of-Britain-50g-Pure-Silver-Ingot.aspx
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    The1GramMan got a reaction from trp in Battle of Britain Ingot   
    Thank you, i should have done a new one but didnt want to spam posts if you know what i mean.
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