(i used my real mailing address, but the name and email address of arlene mangualcolon, a randomly selected watch-peddling spammer from my gmail spam folder. with any luck, cash4gold might be able to swing a deal for a few of arlene's "exquisite class replica rolexes." as arlene wasn't kind enough to include her phone number in her email to me, i used generic directory assistance.)do you ever watch matlock at 3 am on wgn? oh, right, me neither. well, if any of us ever did, we would certainly have seen several hundred cash4.gold.com commercials.
basically the idea is that they send you a "refiner's kit" (an envelope), you use it to mail them your gold and platinum (really? people watching late-night old people tv have platinum?), and they mail you a check for whatever they decide it's worth. right. so it's an untimed auction with only one bidder and no reserve price.
oh, and their "fully insured" envelope? their terms of conditions (yeah, yeah, the fact that this is even getting written should tell you how bored i am right now) provides that if your, say, cartier watch and super bowl ring fall out of their envelope, cash4gold's liablity is limited to the least of the liquidation value of the items as appraised by cash4gold (that seems fair), 1/3 of the customer appraised liquidation value if submitted before the items were lost, and $100. $100.
anyway, all this to say that i feel like cash4gold pretty much deserves whatever they get.
to that end, i signed up for a refiner's kit this afternoon. when it gets here, i'm going to mail them a letter self-appraising my submission at $10,000, then i'm going to spray paint a bunch of dirt and pebbles gold and mail them my "gold dust."
stay tuned.
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Good luck! And if it works, I hope to see you as the new cash4gold.com spokesperson!
hah. i hope to see me as the new matlock.
haha. i think my favorite part of their website is the testimonials. "never in my wildest dreams did i imagine i could trade in a $300 pair of earrings for $30!!!!!!!!! thanks cash4gold!!!!!!"
heh. you just wait for my testimonial if they send me anything (including a rejection letter) for my spraypainted dirt.
forget the spraypainted dirt. just send them an envelope full of hanukkah geld and let them work it out.
Haha. can i eat the chocolate out of it first?
if you must.
let me tell you a story.
when i was younger, i used to get frustrated trying to peel the foil off the "candy coins" (that's what we called them; we got them in our christmas stockings and easter baskets each year).
by the time i was 16 or so, i'd determined that my best bet was to just pop the whole things right in my mouth, chew the chocolate out of em, and spit out the foil.
hopefully that sheds a little light onto whether or not i "must" eat the chocolate.
I'm not sure what's more annoying--the Cash 4 Gold commercials or the commercials for the dozens of "check cashing" places. People all excited to get a loan for $1500 til next payday--suckers. At least you can try this (with your lovely spammer's help, of course). Try to get an inventor's kit! Invent something that can go on a blister and not hurt like hell. :)
outstanding idea.
i actually meant a while back to sent a bunch of my little sister's ms paint "artwork" in to that "you can be an artist" place from tv.
i'm totally doing this now. thanks for the reminder.
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