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[–] 55 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Why would you reveal this with a video? Like…this is literally free money for the taking.

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  • [–] 48 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Nothing is worth more than clout on the internet.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Probably make more in clicks and adds than they can make buying and scraping a very limited amount of probably-not-actually-pure gold.

    Certainly less work.

    (Edit: this is the irregular reminder to crack addicts and meth heads- flocke cameras have copper you can sell.)

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If you're the gold store people are selling gold to, you make more money revealing this

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    If there’s only 10k of them, you would definitely make more money collecting those yourself. Putting it on the internet like that ensures that every gold store in the country starts getting those.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The people who made out like bandits during the 1849 gold rush sold panning equipment and shovels. This is the modern version of that.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well, them and the bandits, I'd imagine.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    That was with an essentially infinite supply of people to sell to. There’s only 10k of these things, and putting it on the internet insures that you’re only going to get an incredibly small fraction of the gold sold back to gold stores.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Why does this person wear his rings OVER the gloves?

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Apparently it's a semi common thing for jewelry store workers to do.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    So like… who at LG thought that was an efficient use of resources…? That seems a liiiiiitle bit wasteful.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    It was a very limited run thing. It was a celebration for them being top-sellers. Only 10k were ever made.

    And oddly enough, these celebration pieces tend to increase sales further by amplifying their advertising.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Putting the Gold into Goldstar (old name of LG).

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago