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Super Bowl Ads From Cash4Gold And GE: Where Are They Now?
Sure, Super Bowl ads are a great way to generate a lot of buzz for your company or product. But how do you fare in the long term? Consumer Reports Home took a look at two stars of Super Ad Bowl 2009: Cash4Gold and General Electric. More » -
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Cash4Gold Hit With Racketeering And Fraud Class Action Lawsuit
A class action lawsuit (PDF) was filed against Cash4Gold in California federal court last Friday, accusing the company of a "massive scheme to defraud tens of thousands of consumers throughout the nation," and racketeering. More » -
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Cash4Gold Drops Consumerist From Lawsuit
Cash4Gold has dropped Consumerist as a defendant in the lawsuits against ex-employees Michelle Liberis and Vielka Nephew. More »
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Cash4Gold Threatened Jail If Negative Comments Weren't Removed
Ex-Cash4Gold employee Vielka Nephew filed a motion to vacate the default in the company's lawsuit against her this week, a lawsuit we're a party to. By getting rid of the default she would then be able to defend herself in the lawsuit and to seek to undo the default injunction which Cash4Gold had obtained against her. One highlight of Nephew's legal papers is the declaration attached as Exhibit C, in which she says Cash4Gold's lawyers told her the company would seek jail time for her and Michele Liberis if the statements Liberis posted on the internet about the company — which Cash4Gold alleged to be false and defamatory – were not removed. Here's what Vielka declared: More » -
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Update: Cash4Gold Defendant Liberis Files To Vacate Default
Michele Liberis, the former Cash4Gold employee being sued by that company based on her "10 Confessions" posting, today filed a "Motion to Vacate and Set Aside" the default that Cash4Gold was granted against her earlier this year. In her motion, Liberis states that the default "was improper and should be deemed void," given that it was based on a claim that she hadn't responded to Cash4Gold's initial suit against her. Liberis had, in fact, replied to the company's written questions, setting forth her "unequivocal and explicit denials" of Cash4Gold's allegations against her. More » -
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Cash4Gold Activates Magical Press Release Machine
Since we posted our feature investigation into their business practices, Cash4Gold has been busy sending out one new press release per day. More » -
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Internet Alerted To Our Cash4Gold Investigation
Consumerist sued by Cash4Gold after critical blog posts [BoingBoing]
Cash4Gold Sues Consumerist, Complaints Board Over Reports On Cash4Gold Practices [TechDirt]
Selling Your Gold? Read This First [CBS MoneyWatch]
Pawn Shops Are Your Friend [Gawker]
The Case They Don't Want You To See! [Adrants]
A cold, hard look at Cash4Gold [Times Union]
Cash4Gold sues Consumerist and former employees [WalletPop]
All That Glitters Isn't Gold [Citizen Media Law Project]
Cash4Gold Sues Consumerist [Business Insider]
Hold on to your gold chains: The Consumerist investigates Cash4Gold [John Tedesco]
Cash4Gold could be corrupt, but its a well executed money making machine and thats AWESOME [Nick Palacios]
Cash4Gold stipulates that you do not want to read [sukimania.ddo.jp/blog]What is Cash4Gold doing? Starting a "Search to Find the Perfect Canadian Personality for Future Ads."
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The Article Cash4Gold Doesn't Want You To Read
If you have any broken, ugly jewelry lying around in a drawer somewhere, you've probably taken notice of a company called Cash4Gold that promised to pay "top dollar" for your not-so-precious precious metals. If you're like us, you might have even seen a post on ComplaintsBoard.com by a former employee exposing Cash4Gold.
The whistleblower's post appeared on ComplaintsBoard last November. We featured it this February, as part of our ongoing coverage of Cash4Gold, after the company raised its public profile with a multi-million dollar Super Bowl ad. The post was indeed written by an ex-employee, Michele Liberis, who is now being sued by the company for defamation. Recently, Cash4Gold added Consumerist and ComplaintsBoard as co-defendants in its lawsuits (PDF) against Liberis and another former employee, Vielka Nephew (PDF), in an attempt to force us to take the information down. Liberis and Nephew have chosen to stand up to Cash4Gold's legal attack, and so have we. More »
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Hotel Gold-Buying Events Soil The Good Name Of Cash4Gold
Cash4Gold has an important message that they want us in the media to bring to the public. As the most respected name in direct-to-consumer gold ripoffs, Cash4Gold is "greatly concerned" that other entities are fraudulently using their good name for in-person gold-buying events. More » -
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Cash4Gold Goes On Tour - Consumerist Waits For The Live Album
Load up the VW bus and all of your valuables, everyone! Cash4Gold is on tour! Yes, they hold in-person gold-buying events in hotels—Sean ran across this one in Tyson's Corner/Falls Church, Virginia. In case you trust them enough to give you a fair price on your jewelry, but not enough to send that jewelry through the mail.
Have you, or has anyone you know, been to one of these events? I trust the atmosphere is sketchier than a pawn shop, as opposed to more like Antiques Roadshow.
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Cash4Gold Counters Critics With Super Polite Blog Posts
Cash4Gold has decided to counter a mounting stream of criticism - a Yahoo! tech article, a Red Tapes Chronicle MSNBC article, posts at Cockeyed and an insider confession at Complaintsboard - by putting up a series of debunking posts on their blog. I don't know about you but the more four-syllable words a questionable company uses and the more their pronouncements sound like an Intro to Rhetoric term paper, the more I trust them. [cash4gold.blogspot.com] (Thanks to Merck23!) -
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Florida AG Examining Cash4Gold Complaints
The Florida Attorney General's office is looking into nearly 60 complaints they've received about Cash4Gold.com. A number of them complain about sending in valuable jewelry and getting pennies back, and then the company not sending their stuff back as promised.
Beneath Cash4Gold's shiny veneer, a dull reality [LAT] (Thanks to Anthony!)
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10 Confessions Of A Cash4Gold Employee
UPDATE 3: We did a feature investigative article on Cash4Gold, entitled, "The Article Cash4Gold Doesn't Want You To Read."
UPDATE 2: Cash4Gold (Green Bullion Financial Services, LLC) sent us a copy of a judgement they obtained on default, granting a "temporary injunction" against the ex-employee to prevent them from "publishing any more confidential, proprietary information, and any defamatory information on the internet."
We continue to look into the ex-employee's statements and will keep you apprised. (7/02/09)
UPDATE 1: Cash4Gold has filed a defamation suit (right-click here and save to your harddrive to view the PDF) against the ex-employee who posted the below allegations against the company on ComplaintsBoard. The company asserts that the employee's statements were entirely false, and claims that she said she was going to "make Cash4Gold be sorry for firing her." They have also asked us to remove this story. We'll be looking into this and will keep you posted on further developments. (4/3/09)
From the acid-cloud haze of the Cash4Gold processing center steps forth a shadowy figure, fingers stained with orange testing fluid. It's an ex-Cash4Gold employee and in-between tuberculosic wheezes he manages to pass you a yellow legal paid with 10 confessions about how his former employer taught him to rip people off. Then he evaporates leaving behind a pile of gold dust. You dip your finger in it and touch it to your tongue. Just as you thought: fool's gold.If you decide to investigate the creaky clock tower, turn to page 4.
If you decide to read the confessions, to the post inside. More » -
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Cash4Gold Offers Blogger $3,000 To Remove Negative Post
Want to get rich in blogging? Just write negative posts about sleazy companies and wait for them to bribe you to take your post down. That's what the Cockeyed blog learned after blogging about their experience in using Cash4Gold's servicess... More » -
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Cash4Gold's Superbowl Ad Targets History Buffs With Mc Hammer And Ed Mcmahon
Cash4Gold's SuperBowl slot will feature a bunch of washed-up geezers talking about sending in their gold for cash, but unlike the company's previous creative, this time you'll recognize their faces. Yep, it's Ed Mcmahon and MC Hammer. More » -
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