Cash for Gold!

Those places are NOT legitimate. They will give you cash...just not what the gold is worth. When you send your gold to them in the 'kit' they provide, you are given options on how you want to be paid. If payment is in the form of a debit to a bank or credit card, you are stuck with whatever they give you. If you are smart and request a quote, then refusing the 1st and 2nd offers results in higher offers, or you can request that it be sent back to you. Anyone serious about selling broken jewelry would be better off looking in their phone book for local businesses that buy it.

apologies in advance for the wordy response: hell no

It's a bit of an embarrassing point with me actually Pikie. I purchased something online for my daughter's partner...you guys are so hard to buy for. When I saw this product I was thrilled because it's a useful sort of thing I thought and just the ticket for this person. The parcel duly arrived and imagine my shock/horror when it has a garish star with the words "As Seen on TV!!" emblazoned all over it. Where I come from, those words translate to "Cheap, mass produced rubbish".

Hi p1ke, for one I don't have any gold as my step-daughter stole what little I did have, and two there is no-way I would send any rings, necklaces etc to any of these people as they are or would be of sentimental value..and that is more than money can buy or replace...hugs LoLo

Hi there Pike. Well i have seen this commercials on the British television about getting cash for your unwanted gold but i don't think i would trust these companies in this purpose. I am not impressed by these words "as seen on tv" because lately i don't watch to much television and even if i do, i don't go watching tele-shopping.

I have done the CASHforGOLD thing. They really did send me money back.However, I wouldn't recommend it because the amount still wasn't that high and if you need quick cash, it's not the way to go.No, I'm not influenced by seeing something on tv at all.

Well P1ke I know at least one of them is legit lol as a Neighbour down the road did it and actually got a fair amount But no I just do not trust these sort of things at all as I just can not believe they are paying out Money to People for old Jewellery fixed or broken

Actually it has the opposite effect on me. I am always suspicious of those "As seen on TV" promotions. They are usually gadgets and whatnot that don't work nearly as magically as they claim to. As for the gold....I wouldn't trust it. They do have locally run parties for cashing in gold.....similar to tupperware type parties except you sell rather than buy. I can tell you that those are legit. If you get invited to one....start cleaning the jewlery box. My daughter had a gold chain that was broken. She got over 100.00 for it. Another lady got double for an earring than what the jewlers valued it at.

Hi P1kef1sh, As they come in a special envelope too I guess that any casual postal staff would also know the envelope contained gold so no way will I be sending mine (although asset striped years ago there is maybe a pair of gold sleepers lying somewhere lol) I don't believe that as seen on TV makes much of a difference as which channel?? Huggles Ellie:)

These adverts look highly dodgy to me! And are the actors they use really meant to make us feel comfortable about sending them our valuable treasures? (Well, if we have any that is!) They're just plain annoying and patronising. I hope that not too many people use these companies, I don't imagine that they're very honest about what they pay. How do you know that they're valuing them correctly? And they must be out to make a sizeable profit on the back of the recession, so I can imagine that people must get paid peanuts for things that are really quite valuable (in money and sentimental terms). Something that really annoys me is that they run these adverts on some of the children's channels. So my daughter sometimes says to me "Mummy, Turn your Cash into Gold!" What is the point of showing them to children? Do they expect the kids to watch them and perhaps suggest to their parents that they might be able to afford to buy them the latest playstation game/barbie/annoying bleepy toy, if they would only send off their treasures in return for hard cash?? Unbelievable! (You've hit a nerve. Can you tell? Lol!)

I guess to the human mind seeing something(as seen on t.v.) opposed to just reading about it somehow does make it more appealing not neccesarily legitimate. But as for getting cash for gold lets face it. I know of a lot of people including myself that have broken pieces of jewelry or pieces given to us by old boyfriends and such that are just there and has been there for years. A friend of mine had a cash for gold party and she received $500 for her pieces. But than again this was two months ago. Gold prices has soared.

Hi p1key, Firstly, as if I would have all that kind of gold, knocking round my hose and really it is spamming on tv, I don't take much notice of all these rubbish adverts and usualy turn the mute button on as I just can't stand the back ground noise. Hugs. Tamara xxxx

Hey p1key! I never fall for the crappy adds that I see on tv like these! They more that I see them, the less that I believe and trust them! There are alot of jewelry stores here who are willing to buy gold and I think I would much prefer to deal with them directly! I'm not about to send any of my VALUEABLE GOLD to some unknown dealer when I can take them locally, have them weigh it and check it out right in front of me! No way! In fact I happen to have alot of broken chains and other broken gold pieces that I do intend to take and have weighed to see what I can get for them! I certainly need the money!

These companies are a scam. Yes they make you an offer for your gold but it will be seriously below it's value. Then you have 7 days to disagree with their valuation, oops! Where is ther phone number? How do I contact them? If you do manage to disagree you very often get a much bigger offer, tho still well below the market value. Recently the price of gold has soared on the back of the economic situation. A lot of people don't realise this and when they are offered a lot of money for their gold they think great! Actually tho what they are being offered is well below what it is now worth. All these companies have suddenly sprung up for a reason. Gold is now very much in demand and if you have some I suggest you hang onto it for the time being.

hi pikey uh huh well I have news for them. once I was desperate for some cash so I turned in my black hills gold rings and pins and all I got was enough for one fancy dinner out. then later I saw on ebay someone wanting to buy black hills gold ring for over a hundred dollars. I learned they are now quite rare and are very valuable. so wah sob sob I learned the hard way that you get very little when you sell to these scoundrels.As seen on TV just makes me run the other way. Live and learn.