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I don't watch much broadcast TV, and when I do I skip as many commercials as possible, but even I have seen the incessant televised advertisements for a company called Cash4Gold, and I'm sure most of you have, too (they even had a Super Bowl ad). The company is being heavily promoted online as well.The sell sounds great on the surface: You pack up all your old jewelry that you'll never wear again into an envelope and send it, insured, to Cash4Gold. They melt it down and cut you a check for the value of the gold. End of process. It sounds better than going to a pawn shop -- the process is simple and requires no personal interaction with an appraiser -- so what could go wrong?
A little online sleuthing finds that I'm not the only one who figures that if Cash4Gold has this much money to spend on TV ads, someone's getting the short end of the stick, and it's probably the people sending in their family heirlooms to be melted into ingots. The folks at Cockeyed.com put Cash4Gold to the test, rounding up a bunch of old rings, necklaces, and earrings, and taking them to a regular pawn shop to be appraised. The offer: $198 for the lot. They then sent the items to Cash4Gold and waited for a check in the mail. It arrived within a few days as promised... in the amount of 60 bucks. (You don't have to accept the check; the deal isn't done until you cash it.)
That price alone is practically criminal, but that's where the truly slimy part of the operation begins. First, if you call Cash4Gold and ask for your stuff back, you abruptly get a better offer: In the case of the above experiment, the offer was a whopping $178. That's a better deal, but still not market rate, though the caller was told that Cash4Gold could "manipulate the numbers on their end" to make it appear that more product was sent than was in reality. Bizarre, but it's really the only way Cash4Gold can cover its behind to convince you the original offer wasn't a wholesale ripoff.
As bad as that is, it's far worse if you opted for the company's "Fast Cash" option. Here, that original offer ($60) is wired into your bank account within 24 hours of them receiving the booty. It sure is fast, but it's not much cash -- and you don't have the option of declining the offer at all. You're stuck with a pittance for your valuable gold items. (It's also worth noting that Cash4Gold has offered Cockeyed cash 4 removing its expose from the web...)
As a side note, another website offers an in-depth expose on how the system works, this time analyzed from the inside by a former employee. Here it's outlined how the company offers bonuses to phone operators who can convince you to accept a lower offer and how the company attempts to delay payments as long as possible. It's also worth a look if you're considering sending stuff to Cash4Gold anyway and haggling for a better deal.
 

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ok...anyone who's stupid enough to put jewelry in an envelope then wait at home for a response? uh....they deserved to get ripped off.
 

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duh

in general the melters give you like 60-90% face value

i'm guessing cash4gold gives you the worst in the industry since they are the most aggressive marketing

all i know is their SB ad was pure genius

using two bankrupt ex celebs

we meltin gold baby!! :):)

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ok...anyone who's stupid enough to put jewelry in an envelope then wait at home for a response? uh....they deserved to get ripped off.

:lol: Ya think? (<)< And yet they had an ad on the SB.
What does that tell you? Lots of really dumb people out there.
 

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Beware the Cash4Gold scam

Thanks Captain Obvious.

Phew...that was a close one.

I was just FedEX'ing the gold watch my grandpa smuggled out of Germany, in his ass after WWII.

Thanks again...I'll let you go now, so you can look for some kittens stuck in a tree. (<)<
 

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Thanks Captain Obvious.

Phew...that was a close one.

I was just FedEX'ing the gold watch my grandpa smuggled out of Germany, in his ass after WWII.

Thanks again...I'll let you go now, so you can look for some kittens stuck in a tree. (<)<

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/118748

Just posting an article dick head. Maybe its not from some abstract blog, or you might have seen it. :):)

PS: that wasnt a watch, that was a gold plated dildo
 

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hey, speaking of scams, i haven't won more than a free ticket on these scratch offs in some time. i wonder if maybe the states are cheating us due to the bad economy, seems like every time you turn around there's some new scratch off ticket yet they keep losing. back in the good ole days i'd win something decent every once in a while....
 

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btw, sorry to go off topic. first time i saw the commercial i couldn't help but wonder what's going on when something that's essentially a pawn shop gets major airtime. next thing you know we're going to get "pawn your title, keep your car" ads.
 

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I don't watch much broadcast TV, and when I do I skip as many commercials as possible, but even I have seen the incessant televised advertisements for a company called Cash4Gold, and I'm sure most of you have, too (they even had a Super Bowl ad). The company is being heavily promoted online as well.The sell sounds great on the surface: You pack up all your old jewelry that you'll never wear again into an envelope and send it, insured, to Cash4Gold. They melt it down and cut you a check for the value of the gold. End of process. It sounds better than going to a pawn shop -- the process is simple and requires no personal interaction with an appraiser -- so what could go wrong?
A little online sleuthing finds that I'm not the only one who figures that if Cash4Gold has this much money to spend on TV ads, someone's getting the short end of the stick, and it's probably the people sending in their family heirlooms to be melted into ingots. The folks at Cockeyed.com put Cash4Gold to the test, rounding up a bunch of old rings, necklaces, and earrings, and taking them to a regular pawn shop to be appraised. The offer: $198 for the lot. They then sent the items to Cash4Gold and waited for a check in the mail. It arrived within a few days as promised... in the amount of 60 bucks. (You don't have to accept the check; the deal isn't done until you cash it.)
That price alone is practically criminal, but that's where the truly slimy part of the operation begins. First, if you call Cash4Gold and ask for your stuff back, you abruptly get a better offer: In the case of the above experiment, the offer was a whopping $178. That's a better deal, but still not market rate, though the caller was told that Cash4Gold could "manipulate the numbers on their end" to make it appear that more product was sent than was in reality. Bizarre, but it's really the only way Cash4Gold can cover its behind to convince you the original offer wasn't a wholesale ripoff.
As bad as that is, it's far worse if you opted for the company's "Fast Cash" option. Here, that original offer ($60) is wired into your bank account within 24 hours of them receiving the booty. It sure is fast, but it's not much cash -- and you don't have the option of declining the offer at all. You're stuck with a pittance for your valuable gold items. (It's also worth noting that Cash4Gold has offered Cockeyed cash 4 removing its expose from the web...)
As a side note, another website offers an in-depth expose on how the system works, this time analyzed from the inside by a former employee. Here it's outlined how the company offers bonuses to phone operators who can convince you to accept a lower offer and how the company attempts to delay payments as long as possible. It's also worth a look if you're considering sending stuff to Cash4Gold anyway and haggling for a better deal.

Interesting article Fletch. A friend and I were just dicussing possibly looking into places to take old gold jewelry we don't wear. I obviously knew those TV places would not be the best route to take, but interesting to hear all the other shady stuff that they do...
 

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Interesting article Fletch. A friend and I were just dicussing possibly looking into places to take old gold jewelry we don't wear. I obviously knew those TV places would not be the best route to take, but interesting to hear all the other shady stuff that they do...

AIG:

Hold onto it, the gold that is. Trading it in for fiat dollars is futile. Dont listen to what these pricks say on this site, most of them dont know their head from their ass.
 

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