If I buy from another BullionVault customer how do I know the gold is still pure?
A critical part of the BullionVault system is that people take legal delivery of gold and own it outright, but they do not take physical custody of it. Although you may be buying gold from another customer they have never touched it, and your gold has never left the vault or had its chain of integrity corrupted. It might have been owned by many BullionVault customers by the time you buy it, yet it remains the same bar as the day it was first delivered by the professional bullion market to the Via Mat vault, and was checked by them. This method of custody is called immobilisation. It is an important part of diminishing participation costs and increasing security for everyone.
