by cooyon » Mon Dec 14, 2015 5:39 pm
IMO you should just stay home and buy them on RC or BS or elsewhere on line having a special sale price offer. If you are only talking a few $0,000, that's only a couple of ounces. I can't see any real advantage of the kind we all would like to come across. Carrying cash out and bringing gold back might put you on some lists. I would not do it. Not sure what the bank fees would be in RSA, when I lived in Japan I had to convert paper FRNs to JPY, pay a conversion fee of about 1.5%, then use the JPY to buy hard stuff like Swiss francs, British pounds, PMs and pay another 1.5-2% on that end. I gave up on doing those after I saw the transaction fee hits. Just my two cents.