You can now buy precious metal without going to a bank
Moreover, we are not talking about buying outrageously expensive jewelry or ordering custom-made jewelry, as was customary in past centuries, when family heirlooms were passed down from generation to generation and could become a good dowry that helped successfully marry off a daughter. In the modern world, jewelry remains jewelry, and gold bars are bought for investment.
But there are some inconveniences: gold is not sold in stores; you have to go to a special fund or a bank to get it, which is not always convenient for people accustomed to buying currency at exchange offices that are on every corner.
A subsidiary of one of the large German investment funds has begun selling gold bars through vending machines, like chocolate bars or cans of Coke. So far, there are only two gold vending machines in the world: one in a hotel in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and one in Frankfurt Airport.
The design is somewhat different from machines for selling various trifles: a built-in computer receives data on the current price of gold on the world market every ten seconds and displays it on the screen. Accordingly, the price of the bar changes, so it is quite possible to buy gold at a moment when the price drops. The machine has gold pieces weighing 5 and 10 grams, as well as coins of various weights with engraved symbols of gold-producing countries.
The creators of the machines are interested in developing the vending network. In Abu Dhabi and Frankfurt, the novelty is in high demand. They plan to install about 500 machines in world capitals.
The manufacturer does not yet plan to send one or several gold vending machines to Russia. Due to the high level of street crime, in particular the constant theft of machines for paying for mobile operator services, installing such a machine in our country threatens serious financial losses. Issuing >a bank guarantee for the implementation of such an enterprise is quite risky.
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