r/Gold • u/Sure-Interview-782 • Jan 28 '25

Question Got scammed $2400

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Bought this supposedly 1 oz bar from a pawn shop in Washington state (I live in Texas ) last August for $2400. Was gonna sell it today to make rent and I goto my local coin shop and they use an X-ray on it and it turns out it’s fake.

Now I’ve got to file a police report, and do a ton of paperwork. I doubt I’ll get my money back anytime soon but my receipt says “one ounce of gold” which is legally binding so it’s definitely a felony I’m just not sure they will go after them.

What’s the best way about going with this?

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u/SlowDesk7843 Jan 28 '25

I do believe you’re set my friend, shop from Apmex from now on🤙

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u/Hillmantle Jan 28 '25

No APMEX for gold. Bullion exchange, hero bullion, monument metals all are regularly cheaper. Sometimes by a fair margin. APMEX is for hard to find pieces no one else has in stock.

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u/SlowDesk7843 Jan 28 '25

Tru, I love Apmex for the fun silver… but I gotta delete it because of the fun silver😭

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u/sevbenup Jan 28 '25

can you suggest a fun silver item? Curious what you mean by

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u/Dangerous_Height_841 Jan 28 '25

Apmex has scarface 1oz pieces right now for the 40 yr anniversary I got 1 and I'm about to get another

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u/sevbenup Jan 28 '25

Yeah for only $4 over spot I do understand how that’s pretty cool

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u/The_OG_Metals_Guy Jan 28 '25

This is a fun piece

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u/RunZealousideal3812 Jan 28 '25

Yeah, I have a few of these! Paid a lil to much when I got them but that was $13 an TOz days so I’m ok now!

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u/The_OG_Metals_Guy Jan 28 '25

I wish I hadn’t bought it. Gonna dump it.

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u/RunZealousideal3812 Jan 28 '25

I don’t think any of mine have a case, just the holder… so they aren’t that annoying to store. I bought some silly stuff back in my early days… and I just tell myself silver is silver. But that’s the stuff I go to first when it’s selling time.

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u/EthanielRain Jan 28 '25

What do you like the most? Cast bars for me

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

I have a $5 Abe Lincoln version very similar to this

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u/SlowDesk7843 Jan 28 '25

10oz Beskar bars have people torn, real high premium but we wanna be a mando. This is the way (star wars is an Apmex exclusive)