QUOTE(tipuism @ Nov 1 2012, 09:49 AM)
And what was the price you paid for it?
Was it FGJAM price or LME price?
Did you feel cheated when you found out that FGJAM price was about 20% above LME price?
Note : FGJAM Federation of Goldsmiths and jewelers Association of Malaysia
LME London Metal Exchange.
Some confusion and misconceptions about gold prices.
At the Loco London Spot market, you can trade in gold with a spread of USD1 between buying and selling, so something like BUY USD1,711 /oz.: SELL USD1,712/oz. Buy : Sell spread of a fraction of a per cent! And you can have a leverage of 100! Meaning with USD10,000 you can take positions of USD1,000,000 worth !!
Last night:
a. the GOLDBEAM selling price for gold is RM212,000 per KG. (gold bullion price).
b. the PYT Jewellers web site quoted BUY:SELL for bullion at. RM164,162 : RM174,142 / kg.
( spread of about 6%).
c. the STAR biz page - back page- quotes spot price at RM 161 per gm, I.e. RM161,000/kg.
d. mysmartgold of Old KLANG Rd quotes BUY:SELL for bullion at RM162,962 : RM166,463 /kg.
( spread of about 2%).
e. For paper gold at UOB, typiCal spread for 1 KG gold bar is RM1/gm. E.g. BUY : SELL at RM162,000 : RM163,000.
( spread of 0.6 %).
No goldsmith will quote for gold bullion of kg weight at the FGJAM price. It fact, it WUD be at single digit % variance from spot price. Check with Poh Kong and Habib to verify this. Herein lies the fallacy that so many GENNEVA supporters are laboring under - that is that GENNEVA gold bar is only slightly more costly than goldsmiths'. It is in fact a lot more costly!
It is clear that unless one is a professional operator with huge investment funds ( who can then dabble in the Loco London spot market), retail gold investors who have great confidence in the inexorable rise in gold prices would do well to just buy the UOB paper gold, as it has very low spread and is highly liquid - no need to look for best price and reliable buyer when disposing your gold.
As for GENNEVA gold investment, you pay 25% over spot when buying. If the discretionary buy back is declined, you can expect another 10 to 20 % discount to spot, especially for non pedigree gold (i.e. non branded and no cert of origin), so you are staring at a losing spread of 25 + 10 to 20 = 35 to 45%!!!! How long for hibah to cover this?
And what if the gold turns out to be less than 999.9 purity? Or if it is tungsten gold? Or if before you get your gold or your payment for your gold, the company got raided? IT HAPPENED, THE RAID THAT IS!!
Was it a wise move to invest in GENNEVA gold?
This post has been edited by scorpio55: Nov 1 2012, 05:36 PM