http://consumerist.com/5349663/the-article...ant-you-to-read

[QUOTE]By Ben Popken and Meg Marco

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.

We believe citizens, consumers, and employees should be able to exercise their free-speech rights online

 

Interesting. I never liked the cut of Cash4Gold's jib anyway.

 

I don't like gold, it tends to turn good ppl EVIL!!!

 

Holy F, that's a novel! Cliff notes please.

 

cliff notes:

cash4gold suck monkey balls. the end

 

Only people who were born yesterday would want what infomercials has to offer these days.

Good rule of thumb. When watching infomercial, think of them as 80% bullshit and 20% entertaining. The only reason infomercial gets me to watch it for more than 2 minutes, is that it's entertaining. Either the bullshit entertains me or they have some super hot woman with big boobs doing the infomercial.

I can't remember the last time I saw an infomercial that sells something that is slightly above "wasting my money" category. Period!!!!

 

wow, a pawn business is shady? Never.

I want the twenty minutes I took to read that back.

 

Like it's surprising that Cash4Gold isn't paying market value for the gold it buys?

 

The people that send "broken" gold off to these places deserve to be fleeced.

Wait! People who buy into the "broken" gold concept in the first place deserve to be fleeced & bent over.

 

Unfortunately it seems true. I've seen several casting notices for testimonials from "experts" like a doctor, teacher, etc or someone to play a satisfied customer, even if they've never used the product or service. The testimonials you see in an infomercial may not actually be true. So much for truth in advertising.