Consumerist
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delicious gold
SNL Gold Skit Original Ad Revealed
Here at Consumerist, we love gold. Precious, glowing, brilliant, sexy gold. You might be familiar with the Kristen Wiig crazy Monex gold skit on SNL, but have you seen the original Monex commercial it was based on? We present here both the original and the parody for your viewing and comparing pleasure. More » -
amazing discoveries
Unemployed Man With Metal Detector Finds Priceless Gold Treasure
An unemployed man in England, scouring a farmer's fields with his metal detector, made a fantastic discovery of gold treasure. No, really, Ancient gold treasure. More » -
scams
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 » -
gold
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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stanford
100 Kilos Of Gold Art Show Cancelled
100 kilos of gold bricks will not be arriving at the Gagosian Gallery in Santa Monica, California this weekend. The bricks were to have been the centerpiece of a show called One Ton One Kilo by artist Chris Burden. The gold was bought from Stanford Coins and Bullion, part of the Stanford Financial group. You know, Stanford, the mini-Madoff guy accused of bilking investors in an $8-billion ponzi scheme. Now the transfer is frozen while the SEC investigates Stanford. It appears that large-scale conceptual sculpture is but the latest unexpected casualty of the economic crisis.
Announcement [Gagosian Gallery] (Thanks to Dan!) (Photo: bhrgunatha)
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cash4gold
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!) -
cash4gold
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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Irregardless of where the market is going, these tips for selling your gold jewelry, coins, and fillings will come in handy after I visit my grandma tonight. [Bankrate]
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jewelry
Would You Seek Out "Fairtrade" Gold If You Could?
Gold is the latest commodity vying for the ethical "Fairtrade" seal of approval, reports Reuters in a feature on Britsh/Canadian Greg Valerio and his quest to reduce exploitation—both environmental and human—in the jewelry market. He's currently selling "green gold" (that term really needs some marketing help) from a small jewelry store in Chichester, England, but is working with the Fairtrade Foundation and the Association Responsible Mining—a trade group he helped found—to figure out how to certify gold as Fairtrade by 2009. More » -
personal finance
Make Sure You Know What You're Doing Before You Invest In Gold
A lot of financial advisors have suggested investing in gold lately, since the U.S. economy seems headed for the crapper and gold tends to increase in value as the dollar plummets. And a lot of people seem to be following that advice, because gold is up above $750 an ounce now, "its highest level since 1980," says SmartMoney. But gold investments can change value quickly and can be even more difficult to predict than regular investments, so don't go all Scrooge McDuck on the gold hoarding. More »
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