Money for Gold and the Scams

Nov 16
07:14

2012

nancy suzan

nancy suzan

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There has been rising demand in the business of ‘Money for Gold’. The business terms in this are very simple, you have a price for your gold, you send the gold to the company, the company is going to weigh the gold and check it s impurity.

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There has been rising demand in the business of ‘Money for Gold’. The business terms in this are very simple,Money for Gold and the Scams Articles you have a price for your gold, you send the gold to the company, the company is going to weigh the gold and check it s impurity. If there is no problem in any of the processes, the company will send you the required money by ten or fifteen days. The process looks very simple but there are some complexities involved and one must not rely on it completely.The gold rates change on day to day basis. They are under the effects of global financial conditions of the international markets. When some serious issues pertaining to the world peace occur, the gold prices along with the oil prices shoot up, thus making them more and more expensive. This was experienced in the year 2001 when USA was attacked by the terrorists and there was a huge financial disturbance that resulted in extremely high oil and gold prices across the world.There is no business in the world that is free from some kind of scam or fraud.

Even big financial institutions get themselves into some kind of scam that later proves to be very lethal such as the financial breakdown of ‘Lehmann Brothers’. The bankruptcy created a huge financial breakdown across the globe, with many of the mortgage companies suffering and thousand of thousands of people rendered jobless.The process of money for gold is simple if we consider the variables involved. There are various kinds of gold standards against which your price and weight of the jewelry is evaluated. These may be 9K, 14k, 24K and 28K. The price of each of the item is different. Your gold item is weighed against these to get an accurate price of the item. Then there are also some tests in order to validate the purity of the gold item. The most common in use is the acidity test. The gold is purified first through acidity test and then weighed. In this process, some gold items that are not actually gold get aside.

The price of the gold is ever changing. Many of the people that are associated with this business take advantage of these ever-changing prices. On the websites, they ask you to check the estimate amount of money you would get after sending in your gold items. They are going to quote you some of the best prices which if you see on some other sites will not be able to get beaten. Thus the amazement causes you to send the gold straight away without even checking the authenticity and the method they have used to evaluate the rough amount of your gold. Once you have sent your gold, the ball is out of your court. You don’t have any control over your gold items. The company on the other hand will issue another quote for you that will be far more less in value they actually suggested you. In this way you get robbed of your money and your gold items too.