Comments on: Is Cash4Gold.com a scam? http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/ Work At Home & Avoid Scams. Our Guide will help you find jobs, telecommuting friendly companies & other work from home options. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eddy Salomon http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-8174 Eddy Salomon Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:42:58 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-8174 I totally agree with you Ashlyn! Thanks for chiming in. I totally agree with you Ashlyn!

Thanks for chiming in.

]]> By: Ashlyn http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-8173 Ashlyn Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:36:46 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-8173 I just recently came across this site and I think it's very informative. There's no way I'd send in something I KNOW is valuable, expecting a lot of money in return but instead get almost nothing for it. I don't understand why are these cash for gold guys around when you can just as easily go to any pawn shop or a jeweler. They are definitely a scam. Even Steve Wilko has gotten in on the act. The guy from Jerry Springer that has his own talk show. I saw something on tv a while ago about one of these so called companies. It was very interesting. It showed the workers sorting and weighing the jewelry.Some may claim they aren't the best ones to go to, but that's just a way of covering their ass. There are so many crooked individuals and companies these days it's so hard to know who to trust. I just recently came across this site and I think it’s very informative.

There’s no way I’d send in something I KNOW is valuable, expecting a lot of money in return but instead get almost nothing for it.

I don’t understand why are these cash for gold guys around when you can just as easily go to any pawn shop or a jeweler. They are definitely a scam. Even Steve Wilko has gotten in on the act. The guy from Jerry Springer that has his own talk show.

I saw something on tv a while ago about one of these so called companies. It was very interesting. It showed the workers sorting and weighing the jewelry.Some may claim they aren’t the best ones to go to, but that’s just a way of covering their ass.

There are so many crooked individuals and companies these days it’s so hard to know who to trust.

]]> By: Terrell http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-6283 Terrell Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:55:23 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-6283 Me and my boy were making fun about this cash4gold commercial we've been seeing. How many of us really have a bunch of gold just laying around the house LOL! And even if so, why the hell would anyone put their valuable jewels in a sack and mail it off to someone hoping to get money for it. There was a news report about these guys about 2 months back. They said that you're better off going to your local jeweler, and you'll get more money from them rather than cash4gold. They showed us the quotes that cash4gold gave them compared to some of the local jewelry shops. All the shops offered $1000 or more. When they sent their items to cash4gold, the news team was only offered $300 for the gold they sent. Like you said, you're probably better off selling stuff on craigslist, ebay, or better than that taking it to a jeweler. and they did mention that you shouldn't take the 1st offer that a jeweler gives you. They had a camera follow them around to each shop. And every time they turned down the 1st offer, the jeweler offered more money. Me and my boy were making fun about this cash4gold commercial we’ve been seeing. How many of us really have a bunch of gold just laying around the house LOL! And even if so, why the hell would anyone put their valuable jewels in a sack and mail it off to someone hoping to get money for it.

There was a news report about these guys about 2 months back. They said that you’re better off going to your local jeweler, and you’ll get more money from them rather than cash4gold. They showed us the quotes that cash4gold gave them compared to some of the local jewelry shops. All the shops offered $1000 or more. When they sent their items to cash4gold, the news team was only offered $300 for the gold they sent. Like you said, you’re probably better off selling stuff on craigslist, ebay, or better than that taking it to a jeweler. and they did mention that you shouldn’t take the 1st offer that a jeweler gives you. They had a camera follow them around to each shop. And every time they turned down the 1st offer, the jeweler offered more money.

]]> By: Callie http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-6168 Callie Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:03:19 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-6168 Hey Sarah, Welcome! Very wise choice to "keep visiting this blog very often." Great information! ;) Hey Sarah,

Welcome!

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]]> By: Scott http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-6140 Scott Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:04:40 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-6140 <a href="#comment-5929">@Eddy Salomon:</a> Hey Eddie, Just found your site,really like it. I wanted to post a reply about the cash for gold scam. Since the spot price for gold is based on pure 24k gold you will not get full price for what you send in.Almost all gold jewlery,with the exception of the VERY high dollar stuff is mixed. Why,because pure gold will not hold up to everyday wear. The 14k white gold that one reader sent in is considered low grade.Hope you took the stones out because those will bring you more money than the metal itself. I would like to tell people that if you are considering sending in your jewlery to check with a jewler first,he may give you alot more for it than the metals worth.Hell you may be able to get a hock shop to give you more than $7.00 for it. Also of note;when you do send it in,you will only get about 1/3 dealers cost,either way still not enough to part with something of sentiment. And no I don't work for these companies. @Eddy Salomon:
Hey Eddie,
Just found your site,really like it.
I wanted to post a reply about the cash for gold scam.
Since the spot price for gold is based on pure 24k gold you will not get full price for what you send in.Almost all gold jewlery,with the exception of the VERY high dollar stuff is mixed.
Why,because pure gold will not hold up to everyday wear.
The 14k white gold that one reader sent in is considered low grade.Hope you took the stones out because those will bring you more money than the metal itself.
I would like to tell people that if you are considering sending in your jewlery to check with a jewler first,he may give you alot more for it than the metals worth.Hell you may be able to get a hock shop to give you more than $7.00 for it.
Also of note;when you do send it in,you will only get about 1/3 dealers cost,either way still not enough to part with something of sentiment.
And no I don’t work for these companies.

]]> By: MsJaxxee http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-6017 MsJaxxee Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:44:14 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-6017 I'm now just too skeptical to trust much of anything, but even before I got burned so many times with other various scams, I'd never ever trust sending gold through the mail to anyone to evaluate and at their discretion pay what they say is the worth of the merchandise. Too many things could go wrong even if the "opportunity" were legitimate. Misdirection of the envelope containing the gold with the package ending up in the hands of someone else (I get other people's mail and packages delivered to my home and to my post office box almost every day). There could be loss of the package, theft between the originating point of mailing and the final destination, unfair appraisal of the gold causing a pay out of far less than the real value...there're just too many ways for the deal to turn sour. There was an expose of postal employees--a hidden camera sting set up during a Christmas season--showing postal workers opening packages, removing the contents, opening greeting cards, removing the money inside--an investigative news team busted a mail carrier who, instead of delivering the mail, had stuck numerous packages and envelopes in the trunk of his car. No! I would have to have a face to face encounter. I have a lot of pieces that I will eventually take in to have appraised. The ladies here will appreciate this: How many times have you ladies lost just ONE earring and put the other one aside, broken clasps that never get fixed, bracelets that have broken so are then put aside in that same container with the other mismatches and broken pieces with the promise of "one day" getting around to either having some fixed, the ones that can be fixed, and the odd earring or other mis-matched pieces sold, but they just keep accumulating. I have a plastic bag of just that kind of good gold jewelry, but I will not be sending these pieces in anybody's pre-paid envelope going out of town to a complete stranger. Every time the economy gets bad and unemployment rises, the scam artists accelerate or start up their various old schemes along with the invention of new schemes. I'm done. Good night all I’m now just too skeptical to trust much of anything, but even before I got burned so many times with other various scams, I’d never ever trust sending gold through the mail to anyone to evaluate and at their discretion pay what they say is the worth of the merchandise. Too many things could go wrong even if the “opportunity” were legitimate. Misdirection of the envelope containing the gold with the package ending up in the hands of someone else (I get other people’s mail and packages delivered to my home and to my post office box almost every day). There could be loss of the package, theft between the originating point of mailing and the final destination, unfair appraisal of the gold causing a pay out of far less than the real value…there’re just too many ways for the deal to turn sour.

There was an expose of postal employees–a hidden camera sting set up during a Christmas season–showing postal workers opening packages, removing the contents, opening greeting cards, removing the money inside–an investigative news team busted a mail carrier who, instead of delivering the mail, had stuck numerous packages and envelopes in the trunk of his car.

No! I would have to have a face to face encounter. I have a lot of pieces that I will eventually take in to have appraised. The ladies here will appreciate this: How many times have you ladies lost just ONE earring and put the other one aside, broken clasps that never get fixed, bracelets that have broken so are then put aside in that same container with the other mismatches and broken pieces with the promise of “one day” getting around to either having some fixed, the ones that can be fixed, and the odd earring or other mis-matched pieces sold, but they just keep accumulating.

I have a plastic bag of just that kind of good gold jewelry, but I will not be sending these pieces in anybody’s pre-paid envelope going out of town to a complete stranger. Every time the economy gets bad and unemployment rises, the scam artists accelerate or start up their various old schemes along with the invention of new schemes.

I’m done. Good night all

]]> By: Eddy Salomon http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-5941 Eddy Salomon Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:40:08 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-5941 Michael, I guess in your case since it was "free" silver you were sending in, any money you got was a profit. So I can understand where you're coming from. But for people that paid hundreds or thousands of dollars for jewelry that expect to get a decent amount of that money back when selling the jewelry, these sites are not an option. But it's good to hear from different people with different experiences. So thanks for sharing. Michael,

I guess in your case since it was “free” silver you were sending in, any money you got was a profit. So I can understand where you’re coming from. But for people that paid hundreds or thousands of dollars for jewelry that expect to get a decent amount of that money back when selling the jewelry, these sites are not an option. But it’s good to hear from different people with different experiences. So thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Michael http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-5940 Michael Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:26:10 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-5940 I have had very little problem with any of them. When i knew i was getting laid off from my job, i took all the scrap "silver waste " that our machines produced, and sent some of it into them. I began by sending 6 oz of silver to each place. Cash 4gold and dollars for gold.They both sent me money. One a check for $18 and the other in my paypal for $17. For me it was free silver that i was getting money for. Made $200. So i didnt care what they do with it. And i think there in lies the secret. Get money for crap you don't care for. I have had very little problem with any of them. When i knew i was getting laid off from my job, i took
all the scrap “silver waste ” that our machines produced, and sent some of it into them.
I began by sending 6 oz of silver to each place. Cash 4gold and dollars for gold.They both sent me money. One a check for $18 and the other in my paypal for $17.
For me it was free silver that i was getting money for. Made $200. So i didnt care what they do with it.
And i think there in lies the secret. Get money for crap you don’t care for.

]]> By: Veronica N. http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/03/02/is-cash4goldcom-a-scam/#comment-5931 Veronica N. Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:01:05 +0000 http://www.workathomenoscams.com/?p=700#comment-5931 Hi Eddy, Haha! Yes I have a sense of humor times are hard now but, I don't let that get me down. Regards to what you have mentioned I wouldn't even dare to judge people on their passed mistakes. Hey you live and learn I always say. Hi Callie, Yup I hold on to every ounce I got in gold. lol Thanks for sharing the links every information is helpful. Knowledge is power! Veronica N. Hi Eddy,

Haha! Yes I have a sense of humor times are hard now but, I don’t let that get me down.
Regards to what you have mentioned I wouldn’t even dare to judge people on their passed mistakes. Hey you live and learn I always say.

Hi Callie,

Yup I hold on to every ounce I got in gold. lol

Thanks for sharing the links every information is helpful.

Knowledge is power!

Veronica N.

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