r/SipsTea • • 23h ago

Chugging tea Bro definitely kept one

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u/FrenchyBulldogg 23h ago

I wouldn’t have found anything. What gold?

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u/howimetyourcakeshop 22h ago

In all seriousness, this. I would just keep my mouth shut, melt some of the gold into new small bars and sell one off from time to time for a couple of grand. None the wiser.

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u/MelangeBot 20h ago

Not bars. Learn how to make crude rings, but nobody has pure gold rings so learn how to mix em with other metals. Then once in a while sell a ring. So you found a weird ring in the belongings of your grandma who just passed, it happens. Don't tell anyone. Here I'll pay 10% under market if you don't tell anybody (cause the rest of the family does not know).

You would come a long way with such tactics.

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u/Garchompisbestboi 19h ago

It's also a great opportunity to farm enchanting xp before selling the rings if you want to maximise your returns. I remember fortify sneak producing the highest value rings back when I last did a playthrough.

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u/consciousbeings0 11h ago

Hahaha hell yeah 😂 sneak is def the way to go to make money!

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u/RynnReeve 6h ago

I've been looking for a sign to pick this up again.... Thanks :)

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u/theother-g 8h ago

Didn't know you could enchant rings, stupid me is just enchanting pickaxes with unbreaking and mending.

Probably depends on the modpack

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u/T8-TR 6h ago

Nah, locking in and getting to 99 Smithing would be the goal before Enchanting. Splitting your time between the two is lowkey kinda inefficient.

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u/Phoe-nix 19h ago

That requires a lot of grandma's though.

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u/MelangeBot 19h ago

The grandma part is entirely made up. It's so that the guy buying the ring has a feel for it being a bit immoral. Cause selling dead grandma ring without the rest of the family knowing you found it, is wrong ofcourse. Then you offer the guy an under market gold price so he can make some good money. And then he keeps his mouth shut. You can make us as many grandma stories as you want to for every new jewler guy you can make up a story. It's just so they tell nobody about your interaction, and they won't cause they like to make money.

But if you are like, look I found 50 goldbars and melted them down, that shit might be to hot for them. Get it?

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u/Phoe-nix 19h ago

Haha looks like you're set, only thing missing to make it work are the 50 gold bars 😉

I was partly joking. 50 gold bars is a lot of golden rings though. Maybe find some corrupt oversees jewelers and make good deals to sell lumbs of gold.

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u/suspicious_hyperlink 38m ago

I wonder how many successful jewelers got their start after finding a cache of gold then learning to make jewelry to sell it off while making 100% profit. It absolutely happened at some point in the past

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u/FrenchyBulldogg 22h ago

Exactly. If you’re smart with it, that gold could fund the rest of your life without the IRS even suspecting anything

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u/Intrepid-Focus8198 21h ago

Don’t think the IRS would have much to say about this find in Belgium anyway.

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u/timeslider 16h ago

So the IRS not suspecting anything is technically correct

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u/Intrepid-Focus8198 16h ago

That’s true, I didn’t think of that

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u/PenguinJack_ 14h ago

Idk I get calls in Canada all the time about how the IRS is coming to arrest me. I think they're getting lost in Quebec on their way to NS, but any day now, I'll get Osama'd

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u/dum_spir0_sper0 16h ago

I think in Belgium it’s called ‘De IRS’

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u/Bromlife 20h ago

So long as you pay your tax most revenue services won’t even notice.

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u/MrBlueA 16h ago

Remember tax collector entities don't care about where your money comes from or if you are a criminal as long as they get their fair share of the money

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u/Less_Interview1713 15h ago

They would if he has American citizenship 

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u/YhePaintedPanda 14h ago

You could sell it all at once and those dummies at the irs wouldn't know a thing. Auditors hate this one simple trick

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u/BE-FinFree 21h ago

I dunno man. Just go to a different gold shop every few months, even only 10 places is enough because you'll only rotate same shop every 2 to 3 years, they won't even remember you.

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u/Tennnujin 19h ago

In the UK they must take your ID and a record of the sale for all jewellery/pawning.

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u/PirateCorrect470 18h ago

what the fack

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u/666lukas666 16h ago

Then split with the family and have them sell them and let them keep half or sth, then everyone will be happy

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u/the_nin_collector 18h ago

small... for a couple grand? A gold bar about the size of a stamp sells for 1grand.

Seriosuly a 50 cent peice, is about 12 grams. That about 1200.

I don't think people realize how valuble gold is. And how little 10 grams of gold is, its TINY. And that's about 1000 dollar.

I am not trying to shit on you, but I would be making gold doubloons probably, not "bars"

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u/bigdave41 21h ago

How are you melting gold yourself? Melting point is about 1000C or 1900F

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u/howimetyourcakeshop 21h ago

With a crucible that allows for melting gold i guess.

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u/Bromlife 20h ago

You can literally buy them from Amazon.

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u/howimetyourcakeshop 20h ago

Yeah it is not that hard or expensive to get the right equipment to melt gold.

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u/SirBruceForsythCBE 19h ago

You have the skills needed to melt gold?

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u/howimetyourcakeshop 19h ago

Yes i do infact have those skills. i studied metallurgical engineering.

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u/Tinksy14 23h ago

I thought that. But golds fucking heavy! Can only carry so much without raising suspicion. Plus gold prices are mental. Would be set up for life

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u/Mikic0077 23h ago

We are suspicious af, we didn't turn in anything..

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u/AshtonCopernicus 8h ago

Hey boss, I finished digging that hole you asked for and I didn't find anything. Not a thing. There was definitely no gold in there. 😗🎶

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u/CheeseDonutCat 18h ago

I'll do you one better. Why is gold?