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Gold calendar for 2009

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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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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.

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What are you talking about?? I've already pre-ordered about 20 of these babies for Christmas presents back home!! :-p

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hahaha, lookit mr moneybags over here!

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Good luck to Ginza Tanaka Corp., looking at global financial crisis and deep recession a head, wonder if people need a paper calendar even.

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"the cost per calendar is 30 million yen"

Something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

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The company also has a 1-gram gold calendar worth 6,000 yen.

Oh really? Says who? How much is it being sold for?

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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.

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Or, $61 for a one-gram calendar that's worth $24.

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I'd definitely buy this! Think about what it would cost in 3 years!

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