Jewelry maker Ginza Tanaka is accepting orders for 2009 calendars made of pure gold. The cost per calendar is 30 million yen. The 6-kg calendar features an ukiyoe picture of the old Yokohama Port to mark the 150th anniversary of its opening. The company also has a 1-gram gold calendar worth 6,000 yen.
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BlackFlag
anyone who buys this should be publicly named, put in stocks and bombardede with rotten eggs. it is the most ridiculously extravagant waste of money I have ever seen and only a complete moron or arrogant rich idiot would buy it.
jonobugs
What are you talking about?? I've already pre-ordered about 20 of these babies for Christmas presents back home!! :-p
BlackFlag
hahaha, lookit mr moneybags over here!
some14some
Good luck to Ginza Tanaka Corp., looking at global financial crisis and deep recession a head, wonder if people need a paper calendar even.
Sarge
"the cost per calendar is 30 million yen"
Something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.
Mark_McCracken
Oh really? Says who? How much is it being sold for?
sensei258
Gold is selling for about $24 per gram right now. That means 6 kilos of gold is worth about $144,000. So, if you do the yen to dollar conversion, they're charging you about $306,000 for about $144,000 worth of gold (that's if the calendar is 24 karat). That's just plain stupid.
sensei258
Or, $61 for a one-gram calendar that's worth $24.
nisegaijin
I'd definitely buy this! Think about what it would cost in 3 years!