[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Sidd
Hi, Major Bosco brought up a very interesting question here and I would be very pleased if someone out there could enlighten me on this point.. Major Bosco... Uhh,, this sounds kind of like the e-metal version of the Banking fractional reserve deposit system? Does this mean that SR endorses

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Elwyn Jenkins
Sidd, In an ongoing discussion on this site you posed the following: If this is true, then how does the statement earlier by EJ, "there is not always the necessity to back Standard Gold 100% with E-Gold" fit into the picture? Hope someone can help me out on this one. Here is an answer but

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread B Ray
Is it just me or does anyone else get more confused as SR tries to answer what I thought was a fairly simple question? The response given below to the question gets more complex and confusing each time Mr Jenkins tries to answer it. Why does it take a book to do this? Also the whole

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Craig Haynie
Is it just me or does anyone else get more confused as SR tries to answer what I thought was a fairly simple question? The response given below to the question gets more complex and confusing each time Mr Jenkins tries to answer it. Why does it take a book to do this? All he's saying is that

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Dale Pond
B Ray wrote: You are asked to give quite a bit of personal information in order to open an [SR] acct including a SS# all this makes me very suspicious and starts my mind asking lots of questions. The SS# requirement also stopped my application for their debit account. -- Regards, Dale Pond

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread George Matyjewicz
At 10:41 AM 12/28/2000 -0500, B Ray wrote: Is it just me or does anyone else get more confused as SR tries to answer what I thought was a fairly simple question? The response given below to the question gets more complex and confusing each time Mr Jenkins tries to answer it. Why does it take

[e-gold-list] Money Withheld Without Explanation

2000-12-28 Thread Privacy
To date, I have two checks ordered to vendors that have not arrived after 10 days. I have called Omni-Pay several times, and there is always "no one available" to take my call, and the message space on their voice mail is too short to describe the problem without having them call to query me

[e-gold-list] Re: egold sale

2000-12-28 Thread CCS
Am I the only one to whom the thought has occured that the large amounts of e-gold being sold by this source might be the loot from one or more of the many Ponzi scams? It is not as if there was much else (with the notable exception of the gambling sites) that anyone could be doing to generate a

[e-gold-list] Re: Money Withheld Without Explanation

2000-12-28 Thread Claude Cormier
On 28 Dec 2000, at 13:24, Privacy wrote: To date, I have two checks ordered to vendors that have not arrived after 10 days. Sam, 10 days is no big deal, especially in the busy period which are the holidays. Aren't you quick to jump to conclusions. Claude http://www.goldcurrencies.ca

[e-gold-list] Re: Money Withheld Without Explanation

2000-12-28 Thread dr
At Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:24:15 -0500, Privacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To date, I have two checks ordered to vendors that have not arrived after 10 days. Salutations! U may be at the mercy of the postal system. The USSA postal system always bogs down this time of year with holidays and

[e-gold-list] Re: Money Withheld Without Explanation

2000-12-28 Thread Craig Haynie
To date, I have two checks ordered to vendors that have not arrived after 10 days. I have called Omni-Pay several times, and there is always "no one available" to take my call, and the message space on their voice mail is too short to describe the problem without having them call to query

[e-gold-list] Re: Money Withheld Without Explanation

2000-12-28 Thread Eric Gaither, Gaithman's E-Gold Exchange
Sam, I am sorry to hear of your experience with Omni-Pay. Due to their size, they are experiencing "growing pains" with their Customer Service approach. I would like to recommend that you consider trying one of the recognized Market Maker services listed on the e-gold directory page.

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Elwyn Jenkins
At 10:41 AM 12/28/2000 -0500, B Ray wrote: Is it just me or does anyone else get more confused as SR tries to answer what I thought was a fairly simple question? The response given below to the question gets more complex and confusing each time Mr Jenkins tries to answer it. Why does it take

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Sidd
Hi All, Now I'm getting the picture; SR will indeed ultimately have at least part of their service as a fractional reserve system. I gather from EJ's message that as a customer one will be able to "choose" whether one has an account which is 100% backed by e-gold or not. Craig Haynie wrote All

[e-gold-list] Re: egold sale

2000-12-28 Thread CCS
While I don't agree with much of what the US government does, I do agree with much of what it is based upon. Namely, in this case, a person is innocent until proven guilty. Those are sentiments with which I agree entirely. Circumstantial evidence doesn't hold up in any court of law (that

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread markab23
At the risk of appearing simplistic it looks like SR will be turning into a bank but with a gold standard rather than a paper currency backed system. I though were were going to get away from the banking system. Very soon perhaps we will hear the term fractional used and SR loaning out

[e-gold-list] Re: Money Withheld Without Explanation

2000-12-28 Thread Khurram Khan
To date, I have two checks ordered to vendors that have not arrived after 10 days. Hello, You may want to try Pay By Gold, similar to OmniPay, you can send a check to any where in the world, but at half the cost. www.paybygold.com Khurram

[e-gold-list] Negative Balances

2000-12-28 Thread Khurram Khan
On the public balance page there is one account with a balance of negative 7.7 oz of silver. I wonder how many other accounts with negative balances there are and how that is reflected on the examiner. I only explanation I can come up with that would explain a negative balance would

[e-gold-list] Re: egold sale

2000-12-28 Thread Andrew McMeikan
one or more of the many Ponzi scams? It is not as if there was much else (with the notable exception of the gambling sites) that anyone could be doing to generate a large, periodic income in e-gold in anxious need to be anonymously converted back to fiat money. While I don't agree

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Viking Coder
Seems me the profits from 'banking' can so enamour people as to be irrisistable, hence my previous argument that these businessses are not so altruistic as I first thought. Chucky Whoever said that e-gold, SR, any of the market makers, etc... were altruistic? They are business entities

[e-gold-list] DON'T read this if you're satisfied with...

2000-12-28 Thread ABC Host
Dear e-gold friends, Have you ever been completely *dissatisfied* and *angry* about your current webhosting company? Personally, I can't even begin to think about the *huge* number of visitors and sales I have *lost* over the course of my online business life... due to slow and inefficient

[e-gold-list] Re: BUY ANYTHING ONLINE WITH e-gold

2000-12-28 Thread David Hillary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:33 AM 12/27/2000 +1100, David Hillary wrote: why doesn't some enterprising person set up a business out-exchannging e-gold directly with online retailers and negotiate discounts with retailers based on a secure and guaranteed prompt payment and the additional

[e-gold-list] Flat Rate Gold Exchange

2000-12-28 Thread Ann Smith
On 11-29-00 I wired a sizeable amount of money to Flat Rate Gold for deposit into my E-Gold acct. The next day there was a service message on their site stating there had been money orders totaling over $250k returned as fraudulent, resulting in a mandatory 30 day hold on all incoming wires,

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread George Matyjewicz
At 10:39 AM 12/29/2000 +1300, Sidd wrote: Please realise I am not trying to suggest that SR's business plan (as I understand it) is BAD, but I just wish to know EXACTLY what it is so that I can use their (promised) excellent services in the correct context. So far SR (at least in part) looks very

[e-gold-list] Re: BUY ANYTHING ONLINE WITH e-gold

2000-12-28 Thread George Matyjewicz
At 06:15 PM 12/28/2000 +1100, David Hillary wrote: I sell Cable and Wireless Optus telecommunications/ cable tv/ cable internet products door to door for a living in Sydney, Australia, and our dial-up ISPs come, not only with a free line rental on your Optus landline, but with a full refund of

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold / SR ??

2000-12-28 Thread Elwyn Jenkins
Sidd So the question is: Is there a possibility that in the future Standard Reserve currency will at least in part be backed by DEBT instruments or investments other than e-gold? YES. But always instruments denominated in Gold. The express purpose of establishing SR to have a liquid