Ebay and Wish are no nos.

Thickness thickness thickness thickness is key

Gold-plated-bullion.offersupermarket.com chinese guy who sells it. Goldbars2018 on wickr [email protected] is his mail

Goldbars2018 on wickr can get you fake graded pf70 coins and perth pamp apmex and rcm bars. [email protected]

Where can i buy such a fake gold bar?

For a sec I thought you had a 1 ounce bar lol

Just got off the phone from the Perth mint asking regards the....“CertiCard® SECURITY CASE” And yes apparently they use to have that printed on their older green packs but not the new black ones.

Do u know where I can buy these replicas

Your bar was real lmao

I got caught out with one of these bars. I bought it in May 2016 and for all intent purposes it looked real so I placed it in my collection. I had no other bars to compare it with until I got hold of an order of five 2.5 gram Pamp Bars recently and was shocked at the difference in size as they were probably about 4-6 times smaller in terms of mass whereas they should have been half the size. I took 5 gram Perth Mint bar to a reputable Gold dealer who was going to buy it off me until I mentioned that I thought it was fake and he stated he would need to open it to check. It weighed 5.1 grams and when I said that he could file it and check with acid I thought that he was going to pass out with shock when he discovered it was actually fake. I subsequently went to the Police and filed a report as this seller on Ebay had sold Gold bars to many many people. I am out what I paid for this item but I genuinely hope that they get caught and prosecuted because selling fake items is a really despicable thing to do! P.S. it had all of the aforementioned tells in your video i.e. the matting on the Swan, the rim around the bar and the thickness of course.

And report him

Bro leave negative feedback r u dum hes just gonna scam someone else

Well I have been seeing lot of videos of fake gold bar almost all of them don't take the bar out and compare. Also why don't you let the viewers know who the seller is. I buy gold all the time , first thing I do is take it out and compare with what I already have. Do the weight test and magnet test. Also take it to the coin dealer and verify. Also a basic rule don't ever buy from individuals just stick with proper companies in ebay(apex bullion exchange etc...) EBay has 30 days money back guarantee also you will get receipts from sellers if they are companies instead of individuals. So just don't tell it's fake without taking it out. Waste of time and wrong information.

did try the magnet test?

I'm curious on your findings. Did anybody do any form of assaying? or other testing other than the visual inspections listed below? All of the most common assaying processes I know are:Fire Assay - Fire assay is one of the oldest methods of checking the purity of content in precious metals. ... Dry Assaying - Dry assaying works for gold and silver, as well. ... Wet Assaying - In wet assaying, solvents dissolve the sample. ... Spectrograph Assaying.

I have just bought one of these off Ebay and needed to check for any fakes. I am not saying you are wrong in your determination of yours being a fake but there are a number of things troubling me. According to the information on the Perth Mint website (admittedly, published 1 year before your upload) your fake should have the following errors- 1) It should not have the swan motif water mark on the card background - yours has, as mine. 2) The fake black card features the words “CertiCard® SECURITY CASE” instead of “The Perth Mint tamper-evident case” - Yours has the correct wording, as mine 3) The letter ‘B’ is omitted from the six-digit bar number on the back of the black card. - yours shows a letter B, as mine. www.perthmintbullion.com/blog/blog/15-05-20/Don_t_Get_Duped_By_Fake_Minted_Bars.aspx 4) You mention that the thickness is double what it should be. This is hard to measure in a blister pack but, with the proper thickness being (near enough) 4 mm, your would need to be around 8 mm which it does not look to be - probably nearer the 4? As mine. The dimensions for this bar are here - 41 x 24 x 3.9 mm www.perthmintbullion.com/Buy-Gold-Bars/1oz--Minted.aspx?productId=100 5) I cannot verify the finish around the swan impression is correct to an original. I also found some more images of fakes and none seem to match yours or mine. www.google.co.uk/search?q=fake+perth+mint+1+oz+gold+bar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=PSIiWPWDO_Pv8AeLg6vIBg I am not being critical, I thank you for the `heads-up', but it leaves me puzzled and wondering if yours was the real thing afterall? Perhaps the fakers changed things in that 12 months but seems unlikely. This is my first Ebay purchase of gold, rather than via bullion dealers, thinking (wrongly) the sealed card gave me certainty so I now need to decide my next move. I could return it for a refund claiming it is fake but have no real grounds. I could remove it from the packaging to test. Not good - harder to sell on or return. I could drill the bottom edge through the plastic with a VERY small drill to a very shallow depth as a destructive test to check for any different substrate material. Not ideal, it spoils it slightly but gives me (and others) peace of mind without having completely removed it. We'll see. Thanks for uploading your video.

If you have been doing this for so long why in God's name would you buy on ebay?

The solution is to stop buying from eBay and buy instead from a reputable bullion dealer, preferably one that gets its items directly from the Perth Mint.

Please leave a comment below. Hopefully it will help anyone else out who is just trying to invest in something genuine.