u/justforkicks4321

I am in South Florida and yearning for a handmade Cuban, I know Garcias is widely regarded as the best and I plan to visit both in person pretty soon. But the difference in price, and wait time really has me leaning toward trying out Pochy. The purchase will mostly be a gift from my wife, and she is really not up for waiting months.
Also, their pricing allows me to get into a thicker or higher karat chain than Garcias does.
If I go with Pochy I can get a 22inch 6mm 14k or 7mm 10k, but Garcias 6mm 14k is around 1400$ more than theirs.

No hate here as I am generally trying to understand, and on some other threads my questions get taken as hate, but I’d like to understand where your heads are on this issue in regards to premiums.

I certainly understand how they can work from a currency standpoint, IF you sell something and can accept goldbacks.

But my issue is trying to understand how they are supposed to work for the regular person who just wants to spend them?

At first thought it seems like you would just get eaten alive by the premiums every time you have to buy goldbacks with your paycheck.

You are never in position to take a goldback as payment for something else so that you can benefit or call it a wash? So where’s the sense in that? I found a few vendors In my area who will take them, but as it is I would have to buy them, pay tax and shipping on them, and then take them to the green market to buy pizza from a guy…

Now I’m back in the same boat with no gold backs and a pizza that would have cost me 10$ but instead cost me much more.