Here is the pirate's silver ring collection.
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The pirate finally got brave enough 1 day and got the courage to weigh his silver jewelry and carefully (so he thought) weighed them out on his digital scale. He had a scale that perhaps was not as accurate as possible, but he came up with approximately 45.56OZ. Now the pirate was getting in a bigger hurry, because the post office was about to close soon and was piling too much jewelry on the scale at a time. During the melee, the pirate misweighed his largest chain at 21.8 OZ, instead of 2.18OZ. BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE BOTTOM LINE! Packaged up the items, insured them and said fairwell, with dreams of .999 fine dancing in his head! He also had a sister with loot she wanted a check for. She was not a pirate, mind you, but a person who had extra laying around that she did not wear (her loot is lot #1). The pirate also weighed these items and sent them in with his loot, but bagged them separately, with special instructions for each bag to the refiners. Now, the pirate's postal receipt clearly says 2LB 0OZ. We all know that there are 16OZ in a pound and since there were 2LBS, we have 32OZ, so there is no way the pirate had 45.56OZ! Well, when it gets right down to it, the refiners have the final say. You all can read the Midwest Refineries invoice for yourselves. Had the pirate been less careless, he would have had a better idea what was really sent out there. There were .66OZ or 18.7Gs of silver items that were unacceptable to the refiners and returned to the pirate.
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The pirate was a little dissappointed that he had been so careless weighing his precious silver, but was proud that he finally had made a decision to refine. The pirate also has much gold, but was wanting to see how the silver transaction went before surrendering all the booty, as it were! Midwest Refineries was probably thinking this pirate was kinda high maintenance because of all that he asked of them. I don't think they are used to pirates asking them to send back the whole lot of the refined metal, because they like to hold some booty fer themselves. He does not blame them! The pirate likes to hold a little booty himself! The pirate asked them to allow him to pay off the fees and to get the whole .999 allotment back fer the treasure chest. This pirate likes to sit on his loot, as it were. The pirate paid the 12% holdback, $1.50 per OZ over market and returned shipping with insurance. After negotiating a settlement amount with Midwest, the pirate forwarded $77.29 and got these beauties!
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SSSSSSSSSILVER BARS MATES! 2) 10OZ .999 fine, that is! Ya'll like 'em? The pirate thinks thar real fine!
Guess who yer pirate is in the story????
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Gulf Hunter
Just thought perhaps some of you who are holding on to who knows what, would like to see how to refine silver pirate style! Overall, I am happy with my transaction, but you can bet that in the future, I will be weighing VERY CAREFULLY! We work too hard fer our loot, to be careless like I was!
