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Gold-To-Go Vending Machines Sell You Precious Metals On The Spot

Want to invest in gold but don’t know how?  Get started on the next street corner with a Gold-To-Go vending machine, which sells gold on-the-spot to anyone who can stick 31 Euros up its snout.
Vending machines, over the years, have sold a variety of things from quick-fix snacks to Japanese sex toys.  A new vending machine, in fact, even pays you for feeding it garbage.  However, Gold-To-Go takes the whole concept a bit out of the normal realm, dropping a tin-box with a piece of gold in exchange for your bills (note that it’s bills, not coins).
Displayed last week at Frankfurt’s main railway station (as part of a marketing test), novice gold investors can dive pinkie toe-first into the precious metals market using the “gold-dispensing automated teller machines”.  The fare is a one-gram piece of gold about the size of a cell phone SIM card, which you can take home [...]