Happy new year to all those who celebrate one a bit more than a lunar quarter after the winter solstice (or summer solstice for those in the southern hemisphere)! And a happy new millennium to those on the gregorian calendar! (Even if you celebrated early. :) I've a included small announcement below. (And no, this is not the project I alluded to on the tech list. Details on that should follow in another month or so.) -JimC Later this month JHCUS Inc. will be announcing a new site offering metal-denominated annuities. As a special holiday deal for those on this list, we will offer a special introductory rate of 7.2% per annum for the first kilogram of annuities denominated in each of gold, platinum and palladium, and for the first ten kilograms denominated in silver. After than, the offer rate will start at 6% per annum, but will fluctuate. (As we are offering fixed-rate annuities, once an annuity is purchased its rate remains fixed for the duration of that annuity.) To qualify for this special rate, the purchase amount must be between ten grams and one kilogram (or fifty grams and ten kilograms for silver), the duration between one and five years and the fixed payback schedule monthly, quarterly or annually. We cover any spend fees associated with the transfer to us, you cover any spend fees on the return payments. We are only offering fixed-rate annuities with a single, up-from incoming payment at this time. All return payments will be made to the same account the purchase is made from. This is for security and for fraud protection. We will also offer a seventy-two hour back-out window, during which time a full refund (less and spend fees) will be available. Anyone interested should send email (we prefer OpenPGP encrypted email) to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> indicating how large, long and often of an annuity they want. We will reply with a payment schedule matching that. As an example, a 100 g annuity repaid quarterly for two years results in eight quarterly payments of 13.534 g each for a total profit of 8.272 g. Or, a 250 g annuity with monthly payments for 2.5 years results in 30 monthly payments of 9.131 g for a profit of 23.930 g. The incoming accounts for the annuity purchases are as follows: e-gold # 233455 webfunds # 5e4aad96642265ddaec1367730cc3d349fa69f20 metalsavings # 121 standardreserve # <to be determined> For webfunds, we offer annuities denominated in the DigiGold_AUG_2000, DigiGold_AGG_2000, DigiGold_PTG_2000 and DigiGold_PDG_2000 contracts as distributed in <http://www.webfunds.org/download/WebFunds-1.7.5.zip>. Once we are able to setup a standard reserve account for this, we can accept payments there as well. (Our attempts so far have failed with SQL errors, tagged with a G&SR banner; probably more fallout from this weekend's downtime. SR has been notified.) 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