e-gold® Real Money
Account Opening, Funding, and Transactions

e-gold facilitates web-based on-line real money (precious metals)
savings (storage) and transactions (payments and receipts)

Due to several factors, I can no longer recommend funding e-gold accounts.

The main factor is harassment of e-gold by the fascist U.S. government.  Because of that, e-gold is essentially a "blocked currency".  Difficulty of withdrawal of funds within the e-gold systems ranges from extremely difficult, and at a steep discount to the current gold price, to impossible.  (That is, it is extremely difficult, to impossible, to convert e-gold to one or more nation-state fiat currencies.)

The e-gold Exchange News Blog

The e-gold Exchange News Blog has two major areas of news coverage:

•   News, if any, of e-gold's efforts to mitigate the continuing attack by the "Big Brother" "New World Order" totalitarian U.S. Government.
•   News of which e-gold exchange services are BUYING e-gold and other e-metals, and at what rates.

Until this situation is resolved, Big Brother (NWO / OECD / FATF) Wins.
Seekers of Financial Privacy and Personal Freedom (YOU) Lose.

No longer any reason to open e-gold accounts.

NWO / OECD / FATF Wins.
Seekers of Financial Privacy and Personal Freedom (YOU) Lose.

Holders of e-gold accounts have not had access to their funds (holdings) for many months.  They will not have access again until they comply with intrusive Customer Identification Program (CIP) requirements being implemented by e-gold as a result of coercion by the fascist U.S. Government.  Many account holders may be unable or unwilling to jump through the hoops required and so will lose their accounts.

Instant windfalls for e-gold and/or the government.  (As to the allocation of the windfalls, I am not privy to details -- e-gold has been and is notoriously uncommunicative with their account holders regarding account status).

Bottom line -- e-gold is becoming just another establishment lackey money transmitting business.
So why bother?

Real ID - Customer Identification Program (CIP) - No e-gold Exchanges Without it

NWO / OECD / FATF Wins.
Seekers of Financial Privacy and Personal Freedom (YOU) Lose.

e-gold is an superb alternative to the conventional banking and payment schemes in that it is based on precious metals instead of "money" declared by government fiat to be of value.  e-gold is real money, not fiat money.

e-gold is not a bank; it stores actual precious metals for your account, not just electronic blips.  So you may use it as a "savings account" of real value.

You may also use e-gold to transfer value from your account(s) to others having e-gold accounts.  You can save and transact in fractional ounces or grams of gold, silver, platinum, and/or palladium.  The e-gold transfer payment method has significant advantages over other payment methods such as credit cards and that offered by PayPal, etc.  Security is unparalleled.

e-gold also offers a significant degree of privacy in transactions as compared to the conventional banking establishment, whether in the United States or elsewhere.

For more information, browse the e-gold® site
http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=107658

Opening an e-gold account is simple and entails no obligation.  You may open an account now, immediately, and fund it later.

After you open an e-gold account, the next step is to fund it; that is, to transfer some sort of fiat currency units (US$, Euros, etc.) into your account and have them converted to equivalent amounts of the precious metal(s) of your choice.  This is also called an "In-Exchange".

If you fund with larger amounts, you can deal directly with the e-gold affiliate, OmniPay
   http://www.omnipay.com

To fund your e-gold account(s) through Omnipay, it appears that you will have to have your account established with OmniPay as well as e-gold and that you will then have to log in with Omnipay to get the details.  The last information I have is that the minimum "In-Exchange" amount is US$1000, and that wire transfers only are accepted.

For smaller amounts, including very small amounts, and/or for other than wire transfers, you will fund your e-gold account(s) through independent "exchange providers", aka "market makers" or "cambios".

e-gold provides a list of cambios, along with merchants accepting e-gold, at
   http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/links.htm

e-gold also provides links to a couple of independent directory listings of Market Makers and e-gold accepting businesses,
   The GoldDirectory:    http://www.golddirectory.com/
   Bearer Instruments Money Directory:    http://www.bearerinstruments.com/

Another independent site both lists and rates various cambios
   http://gold-pages.net/Exchange_Providers__E-currency_Agents/index.html
and funding information
   http://gold-pages.net/E-currency_Wizard_Links/Purchase_E-gold/index.html

After you have opened and funded an e-gold account, you may then transfer metal to others' accounts.  (Note that you do not have to have your account funded in order to receive transfers from others.)

You make all transactions from the e-gold secure transaction ("Spend") page after you log in at
   https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html
You can verify this by going to the e-gold site main page
   http://www.e-gold.com
and then following the links to "Access Your Account".  Prior to entering your password, read and heed the safety precautions in order to protect your account.

To easily test sending (transferring) metal to another account after you have funded yours, you can send me a nominal $0.25 worth of metal (or whatever amount) by clicking here.  Clicking takes you to an e-gold site secure transaction page where you can decide what to enter and transmit.  Note that you can enter any amount in one of several units of account, and that you can cancel altogether the potential transaction prior to your finalizing it.

To redeem e-metal to various fiat currencies, or to have fiat currency checks made out to third parties, you do that through
   https://www.omnipay.com/secure/payment.asp

If you wish to swap some or all of one metal to another within an e-gold account, you do a Metal-to-Metal (M2M) transfer through
   https://www.omnipay.com/secure/metal2metal.asp